Been to the US a lot of times (Form filling)

[TonyC88 0]

As a result of visiting my fiance, touring the US and then a fair few trips as a child to the US on holiday, I have been over a lot and especially regarding the holiday's as a child, I cannot remember the months or years I went and I had an old passport at the time so I can't check the stamps.

I'm filling out the DS-230 Part 1 and it asks you to list all of your visits to the US, do I need to rack my brains to find the dates I went around 10/15 years ago, or am I ok listing the last 6 or so visits since 09 as anything before that goes back a good few years.

[Elora & Rob 15]

You need to do exactly what the question asks otherwise your taking a risk. It's up to you if you wan't to do that. Personally I put visits from when I was 2 years old.

You don't need to give exact dates just month and year. Your passport should have all the stamps and if you were a child contact your parents.

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

I thought it only asked for the last ten year's worht of visits? It's been a while for me so not sure anymore.

I had a similar issue. What I did is try to re-construct as many visits as I could from passport stamps, blog entries and credit card statements (needed an extra page of course). Then I wrote something like "these are all the visits I had to the United States to the best of my recollection; as I travelled a lot both for business and to visit friends and later my fiance, there may have been a few I forgot but none of 2 weeks".

Edited September 6, 2012 by Penguin_ie

[TonyC88 0]

Time to dig out my old passport and call my parents.

Only missing a few so it shouldn't be a problem to find the dates.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Time to dig out my old passport and call my parents.

Only missing a few so it shouldn't be a problem to find the dates.

Reconstruct it as best you can. Mum can help fill in gaps. You sign that you completed it to the best of your knowledge. So do your best guessing in some cases, and don't worry about it. It will be as true as you can make it, even if not 100% accurate.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Time to dig out my old passport and call my parents.

Only missing a few so it shouldn't be a problem to find the dates.

That is the best course of action. Get your old passports and enter the information you can find. Add anything that you can remember from memory. There is no problem in entering approximate dates, so long as you add a remark to that effect. If you don't have enough space on the form, attach a separate sheet and provide an explanation, for the approximate dates.

good luck!

[Saylin 1,605]

As a result of visiting my fiance, touring the US and then a fair few trips as a child to the US on holiday, I have been over a lot and especially regarding the holiday's as a child, I cannot remember the months or years I went and I had an old passport at the time so I can't check the stamps.

I'm filling out the DS-230 Part 1 and it asks you to list all of your visits to the US, do I need to rack my brains to find the dates I went around 10/15 years ago, or am I ok listing the last 6 or so visits since 09 as anything before that goes back a good few years.

I'd suggest listing as much as you can, then including a statement at the bottom, similar to what I put, which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lNEm0btviWXw89jNWv0fh1sgPpo8-f2DpVXdv3SFWss/edit#bookmark=id.26d497d460f3

[TonyC88 0]

I'd suggest listing as much as you can, then including a statement at the bottom, similar to what I put, which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lNEm0btviWXw89jNWv0fh1sgPpo8-f2DpVXdv3SFWss/edit#bookmark=id.26d497d460f3

That's a great document to refer to.

Thanks a lot. Luckily I found my old passport, so I have got a record of the exact visits i've had.

It's all starting to come together.