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Hello everyone :-)

I'm a student on an F-1 visa, got married in March, and I'm trying to get immigration forms filed so I get a job right after graduation. I've found these forums and the associated guides to be invaluable and pretty comprehensive, but one question I have not been able to find an answer for is as follows:

For questions about my home country, should I be choosing England or the United Kingdom? Both are accurate for me, but I know that in the past (when applying for the F-1 visa) I have been advised that selecting United Kingdom is generally better. (My passport is issued by the United Kingdom - true for all English folks, I think?)

Thanks in advance for any insight or official links you can provide!

Stuart

 
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I can't say this with 100% accuracy, but I found this pdf list of countries and their three letter codes that seems to be an official list from USCIS. It doesn't list England, but Lists the UK and their country code as GBR.

Maybe someone from there who has been through it can confirm, but I'm thinking that United Kingdom is correct when dealing with USCIS

https://elis.uscis.dhs.gov/RoboHelp/External/media/pdf/list_of_country_codes.pdf

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r7holybo   1

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I can't say this with 100% accuracy, but I found this pdf list of countries and their three letter codes that seems to be an official list from USCIS. It doesn't list England, but Lists the UK and their country code as GBR.

Maybe someone from there who has been through it can confirm, but I'm thinking that United Kingdom is correct when dealing with USCIS

https://elis.uscis.dhs.gov/RoboHelp/External/media/pdf/list_of_country_codes.pdf

Ah, good find, thanks! Yep, the absence of England is definitely useful information (although I'm surprised at the use of GBR for the United Kingdom, as I think Great Britain as an entity is not identical to the United Kingdom!)

Use what's written in your passport - United Kingdom.

Seems safe, thanks.

Hi,

For immigration purposes, use United Kingdom. Once upon a time I put something else down when I visited the US (either England or Britain), and they crossed it out and replaced it with "UK".

Using UK would be my natural inclination, but it doesn't appear on that list of country codes... United Kingdom takes up a lot of space on some of these forms!

 
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Nich-Nick   3,354

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Hello everyone :-)

I'm a student on an F-1 visa, got married in March, and I'm trying to get immigration forms filed so I get a job right after graduation. I've found these forums and the associated guides to be invaluable and pretty comprehensive, but one question I have not been able to find an answer for is as follows:

For questions about my home country, should I be choosing England or the United Kingdom? Both are accurate for me, but I know that in the past (when applying for the F-1 visa) I have been advised that selecting United Kingdom is generally better. (My passport is issued by the United Kingdom - true for all English folks, I think?)

Thanks in advance for any insight or official links you can provide!

Stuart

United Kingdom is a good answer for immigration purposes. Don't abbreviate it to UK. I read a forum post once where a person's greencard or some such document arrived saying-- Country of birth: Unknown

The only explanation he could come up with is that his forms said UK. An odd thing to happen, but spelling it out in full is probably best.

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r7holybo   1

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United Kingdom is a good answer for immigration purposes. Don't abbreviate it to UK. I read a forum post once where a person's greencard or some such document arrived saying-- Country of birth: Unknown

The only explanation he could come up with is that his forms said UK. An odd thing to happen, but spelling it out in full is probably best.

Interesting... I guess I will write out United Kingdom in full whenever there is enough space, and use UK (or U.K., or GBR?) when there isn't.

 
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Once there was a Kingdom of England . . . a very long time ago . . .

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

 
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