Question regarding the choice of Agent at NVC step

[Pw3t 6]

Hello

I just got my NOA2 this week and I started to read the LingChe NVC ShortCut. I've got a question regarding this sentence : "The DS-3032 aka "Choice of Agent form, indicates who will make payments and be primary contact. Most people select the US based petitioner.".

In our case, the primary contact is going to my my husband (the USC) who lives with me in France but the person who will make payments is his mother who lives in USA.

Is it OK to chose my husband for the choice of agent even if it's not him who's going to pay ?

Thank you in advance for your answer

[Ms Hogan 295]

I don't believe it matters greatly about WHO is paying since the payments will be made online through the payment portal. The important thing to keep in mind is that the address of the agent is the place where they will send paperwork and the email is where notifications may go during the process.

The address is generally the USC located within the US so I'm not sure you want items being sent to him in France. I would probably choose mom in the US if she is available to you. Not that a LOT of paperwork goes anywhere but it might be safer that way. And use your husband's email address.

Edited March 21, 2013 by MsHogan

[Saylin 1,605]

Hello

I just got my NOA2 this week and I started to read the LingChe NVC ShortCut. I've got a question regarding this sentence : "The DS-3032 aka "Choice of Agent form, indicates who will make payments and be primary contact. Most people select the US based petitioner.".

In our case, the primary contact is going to my my husband (the USC) who lives with me in France but the person who will make payments is his mother who lives in USA.

Is it OK to chose my husband for the choice of agent even if it's not him who's going to pay ?

Thank you in advance for your answer

Yup, it's fine if the agent isn't the one paying.

I don't believe it matters greatly about WHO is paying since the payments will be made online through the payment portal. The important thing to keep in mind is that the address of the agent is the place where they will send paperwork and the email is where notifications will be sent throughout the process. The address is generally the USC located within the US so that green card etc can be sent there.

At my interview AND my POE they did confirm the address on file for green card and SSN but I don't know if that would always be the case.

It's the address on the DS-230 that matters for the green card. That's the address USCIS uses to mail the green card (and possibly the SSN) to. For the DS-3032 though, the address doesn't matter since, if you give over both email addresses, then NVC sends all correspondence by email.

[Pw3t 6]

Thank you, I appreciate your help. So we're going to write my husband's name and our french address for the choice of agent, it's easier this way I think We'll also give them our emails.

We will live at my husband's mother when we arrive in USA (it's also the place where my husband used to live before coming to France) so we'll write her address as the permanent address where we intend to live for the DS-230. If I understood well, this way we will receive my green card and SSN there.

Thank you

[Ms Hogan 295]

Yup, it's fine if the agent isn't the one paying.

It's the address on the DS-230 that matters for the green card. That's the address USCIS uses to mail the green card (and possibly the SSN) to. For the DS-3032 though, the address doesn't matter since, if you give over both email addresses, then NVC sends all correspondence by email.

I had edited my reply while you were quoting it... because I was removing the part you corrected me on...

[Saylin 1,605]

Thank you, I appreciate your help. So we're going to write my husband's name and our french address for the choice of agent, it's easier this way I think We'll also give them our emails.

We will live at my husband's mother when we arrive in USA (it's also the place where my husband used to live before coming to France) so we'll write her address as the permanent address where we intend to live for the DS-230. If I understood well, this way we will receive my green card and SSN there.

Thank you

Exactly

I had edited my reply while you were quoting it... because I was removing the part you corrected me on...

I respond too quickly sometimes

[Ms Hogan 295]

Exactly

I respond too quickly sometimes

I think both of us do. This isn't the fist time one of us has been busily quoting or replying to the other and something like this happened!

[Saylin 1,605]

I think both of us do. This isn't the fist time one of us has been busily quoting or replying to the other and something like this happened!

Yup!