Mailing Address vs. Home Address (again)

[orlandoiam 0]

Hello all! I joined quite some time ago only to get daunted by all the paperwork and run away for a time. Now I'm back, and swamped in documents... Getting ready to send the I-129F and G-325 off to the states.

I've already searched this topic on visajourney but I'm still not clear. My fiancee and I are currently living in Bangkok together. We will continue living together and sharing an address in Bangkok until we go to America. I do not use our home address as a mailing address as my apartment building doesn't have private mailboxes. Instead, I have always used my work address (in Bangkok) in care of my boss.

I wish to know where to write this mailing address specifically in the I-129F form and the G-325.

The current I-129F has four sections I can write an address. Hello Specifically:

Part A. #2 (USC address)

Part B. #2 (alien fiancee address)

Part B. #15 (your fiancee's address abroad)

Part B. #16 (your fiancee's address abroad in their native alphabet)

The current G-325 has 1 section:

Applicant's residence last five years. List present address first.

So, where do I use the "mailing address" and where the "home address."

Thank you for this clarification.

[Dean/Gra 0]

Hello all! I joined quite some time ago only to get daunted by all the paperwork and run away for a time. Now I'm back, and swamped in documents... Getting ready to send the I-129F and G-325 off to the states.

I've already searched this topic on visajourney but I'm still not clear. My fiancee and I are currently living in Bangkok together. We will continue living together and sharing an address in Bangkok until we go to America. I do not use our home address as a mailing address as my apartment building doesn't have private mailboxes. Instead, I have always used my work address (in Bangkok) in care of my boss.

I wish to know where to write this mailing address specifically in the I-129F form and the G-325.

The current I-129F has four sections I can write an address. Hello Specifically:

Part A. #2 (USC address)

Part B. #2 (alien fiancee address)

Part B. #15 (your fiancee's address abroad)

Part B. #16 (your fiancee's address abroad in their native alphabet)

The current G-325 has 1 section:

Applicant's residence last five years. List present address first.

So, where do I use the "mailing address" and where the "home address."

Thank you for this clarification.

IMHO this visa is to immigrate to the US, therefore they need a US address for the petitioner, you, to send the paper work to and to know where the beneficiary, her, will live when she immigrates to the US.

You could use your parents, brother, sister, cousin, uncle, friend, someone's address in states that you will be in close contact with. After you get here and you have an address other than the one you put on your form you must notify them that you have moved.

[Yodrak 7]

orlandoiam,

Note that G-325A asks for place of residence. It says nothing about a 'mailing address'. One thing you do have to decide is where your current residence is. Are you living in Bangkok or are you visiting Bangkok for an extended period?

I've no advice for you with regard to I-129f. After living with my wife (then fiancee) in Bangko for 2 years I didn't petition for her until I'd returned to the USA.

Have you thought about I-129f Part B Q 14? An answer other than 'TBD' might give you some ideas.

Yodrak

Hello all! I joined quite some time ago only to get daunted by all the paperwork and run away for a time. Now I'm back, and swamped in documents... Getting ready to send the I-129F and G-325 off to the states.

I've already searched this topic on visajourney but I'm still not clear. My fiancee and I are currently living in Bangkok together. We will continue living together and sharing an address in Bangkok until we go to America. I do not use our home address as a mailing address as my apartment building doesn't have private mailboxes. Instead, I have always used my work address (in Bangkok) in care of my boss.

I wish to know where to write this mailing address specifically in the I-129F form and the G-325.

The current I-129F has four sections I can write an address. Hello Specifically:

Part A. #2 (USC address)

Part B. #2 (alien fiancee address)

Part B. #15 (your fiancee's address abroad)

Part B. #16 (your fiancee's address abroad in their native alphabet)

The current G-325 has 1 section:

Applicant's residence last five years. List present address first.

So, where do I use the "mailing address" and where the "home address."

Thank you for this clarification.

[orlandoiam 0]

Hello-- thanks for the replies. Right now, I'm living in Bangkok. And I've been living and working here for almost 4 years.

I don't want to change the topic, but is the fiancee visa for me-- since I'm actually living in Thailand now?

[Yodrak 7]

orlandoiam,

Yes you can use the fiance(e) visa approach, but as you're discovering it can be a bit awkward.

A spousal visa, whether immigrant visa or K3 non-immigrant visa will also be awkward for you in one way or another since you appear to not have US domicile.

You might want to consider marrying your fiancee in Thailand and submitting your I-130 to the USCIS District Office in Bangkok. You might also want to consider having a consultation with US immigration attorney Bill White to discuss the details of your situation and get some suggestions on what approach might work best for you given the specifics of your situation.

White & White Ltd.

U.S. Immigration Consultancy

New ITF Tower, 17th Floor, #3

140/36 Silom Road, Bangrak

Bangkok 10500, Thailand

Telephone 66 (0) 2231-6466

WFWLAW@AOL.com

Yodrak

Hello-- thanks for the replies. Right now, I'm living in Bangkok. And I've been living and working here for almost 4 years.

I don't want to change the topic, but is the fiancee visa for me-- since I'm actually living in Thailand now?

Edited March 19, 2007 by Yodrak

[Elmira 1]

Hello there!

I know what you mean. I had the same problem. My fiance is an American and I am a Kazakh (Kazakhstan). I put as my address my mailling address (my work address) as my private one is not safe at all, but when they asked to put address of residence I put my home address.

I know it is so complicated, but we decided not to think of all these dificulties and simply put what we think is correct.

[orlandoiam 0]

Well Thanks for the replies everyone!

Here is what I understand (for anyone who may be in the same situation as me)-- on the G-325A I just put my current residence and my past residences (which is Bangkok, Thailand).

On the I-129F (fiancee visa) it appears that I need to put a U.S. address.... in this case my last residence (my parents).

I called USCIS and after much heavy handed button pushing I finally got through to a live person . She was trying to be helpful but when I asked her which addresses to put where she said that by law she couldn't tell me anything. She also said that I had to be in the United States to apply for a fiancee visa... which certainly seems bizarre to me.

But with a bit of wordplay it appears the I-129F has my U.S. address-- while the G-325A remains true to my current residence in Thailand. If anyone could confirm or refute that, I would be very happy to hear your words!

Again, thanks for all the answers.... I really wish I could get a lawyer to do all of this for me but monetary restrictions make that impossible. Plus, it really seems that this should be possible without a lawyer. Rally on-- and goodluck to all.

[Yodrak 7]

orlandoiam,

Was the USCIS that you called the Bangkok District Office or the National Customer [Dis]service Center, appropriately nicknamed 'the mis-informaton line'?

Not that I did not suggest that you hire a lawyer to do the work for you. I suggested that you have a consultation with a lawyer. Agreed that you can probably do the work yourself, but that work will be easier and have less chance of error with informed advice on the tricky issues.

Yodrak

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I called USCIS and after much heavy handed button pushing I finally got through to a live person. She was trying to be helpful but when I asked her which addresses to put where she said that by law she couldn't tell me anything. She also said that I had to be in the United States to apply for a fiancee visa... which certainly seems bizarre to me.

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Again, thanks for all the answers.... I really wish I could get a lawyer to do all of this for me but monetary restrictions make that impossible. Plus, it really seems that this should be possible without a lawyer. Rally on-- and goodluck to all.