I-130 Addresses & Third Countries

[danielswatkins 1]

Hi there,

My name is Dan, first time poster, long-time lurker—this forum has been more help than I can begin to say.

My wife and I are currently in the process of completing an I-130 on my behalf (she is American, I am a Brit). Unfortunately, we've already stumbled on question #2, asking our addresses. A quick search has come up with some situations a bit like ours, but none quite exactly—apologies if this is a common/obvious question.

Here's why it's slightly complicated for us:

• My wife is a US citizen, with a permanent mailing address in Delaware (she's a native Delawarean, not a shell company, I promise), employed by an American company, filing American taxes, etc.

• I'm a British citizen, currently employed by a British company, paying British taxes, and getting mail to my parents' address.

• We both currently live and work for our respective companies in Egypt, and will be applying for the Immigrant Visa in Cairo (Cairo doesn't have the option of direct consular processing, so we're filing the I-130 to the USCIS dropbox in Chicago, and doing the IV here). We've been here for a year and have the visas in place to stay put for another year, at least. Fingers crossed, etc etc.

For question #2, do we:

A) Put the American address for my wife (B2) and the British address for me (C2)?

B) Put our Egyptian address for both (pros—shows we live together; cons—we can't actually receive mail at our Egyptian address)

C) Put the American mailing address for both B2 and C2?

The G-325a breaks down past addresses, but it's not clear if the intention here is a mailing address, a physical address, and for whom...

Many thanks in advance for your collective wisdom!

Dan

Edited May 3, 2016 by danielswatkins

[Harmiliyah 0]

Hi Daniel,

We're in the same situation. Im British and my husband is American. We both live and work in Saudi Arabia. We put our Saudi Arabia address (our P.O. Box and our physical address). This was the address (PO Box) they sent our NOA1 to, but if you can't receive mail then that is problematic. Can you use your employer's address?

Hi there,

My name is Dan, first time poster, long-time lurker—this forum has been more help than I can begin to say.

My wife and I are currently in the process of completing an I-130 on my behalf (she is American, I am a Brit). Unfortunately, we've already stumbled on question #2, asking our addresses. A quick search has come up with some situations a bit like ours, but none quite exactly—apologies if this is a common/obvious question.

Here's why it's slightly complicated for us:

• My wife is a US citizen, with a permanent mailing address in Delaware (she's a native Delawarean, not a shell company, I promise), employed by an American company, filing American taxes, etc.

• I'm a British citizen, currently employed by a British company, paying British taxes, and getting mail to my parents' address.

• We both currently live and work for our respective companies in Egypt, and will be applying for the Immigrant Visa in Cairo (Cairo doesn't have the option of direct consular processing, so we're filing the I-130 to the USCIS dropbox in Chicago, and doing the IV here). We've been here for a year and have the visas in place to stay put for another year, at least. Fingers crossed, etc etc.

For question #2, do we:

A) Put the American address for my wife (B2) and the British address for me (C2)?

B) Put our Egyptian address for both (pros—shows we live together; cons—we can't actually receive mail at our Egyptian address)

C) Put the American mailing address for both B2 and C2?

The G-325a breaks down past addresses, but it's not clear if the intention here is a mailing address, a physical address, and for whom...

Many thanks in advance for your collective wisdom!

Dan

[Ryan H 3,795]

For question #2, do we:

A) Put the American address for my wife (B2) and the British address for me (C2)?

B) Put our Egyptian address for both (pros—shows we live together; cons—we can't actually receive mail at our Egyptian address)

C) Put the American mailing address for both B2 and C2?

B

[danielswatkins 1]

Thanks for your reply! We sent this off today—we put the word 'Residential' in front of our address, and then used a continuation sheet to list mailing addresses. Also submitted the e-notification form. Hopefully should be fine...

Good to know we're not the only ones doing this in a third country! More complicated, but means we can stay in the same country for more than six months at a time. Good luck to you and your husband.

Dan

Hi Daniel,

We're in the same situation. Im British and my husband is American. We both live and work in Saudi Arabia. We put our Saudi Arabia address (our P.O. Box and our physical address). This was the address (PO Box) they sent our NOA1 to, but if you can't receive mail then that is problematic. Can you use your employer's address?

[Thesmiths2016 117]

I'm a NZ citizen, Married to an American, and we currently reside in Australia ... So you're not alone in this third country thing.

We further complicate it by doing an address change back to NZ in June when we move back there to have our baby and wait for the greencard process... So I filed through the Dropbox as filing from Australia, but will interview in NZ. Lol.

We put both our addresses as here in Australia as that's where we reside, receive mail, etc. It also shows we are filing from abroad which some say helps ... Although we got sent to Nebraska service centre so the "sometimes expedited when filing from overseas" didn't work out for us.

[Harmiliyah 0]

danielswatkins and thesmiths2016

Good luck to us all, hopefully we might get processed a little bit quicker, but I doubt it

[SabrinaJerome 52]

I'm a NZ citizen, Married to an American, and we currently reside in Australia ... So you're not alone in this third country thing.

We further complicate it by doing an address change back to NZ in June when we move back there to have our baby and wait for the greencard process... So I filed through the Dropbox as filing from Australia, but will interview in NZ. Lol.

We put both our addresses as here in Australia as that's where we reside, receive mail, etc. It also shows we are filing from abroad which some say helps ... Although we got sent to Nebraska service centre so the "sometimes expedited when filing from overseas" didn't work out for us.

I'm glad I finally found a forum for third country filers! I guess I didn't know what to call it before heehee

I'm a USC living in Spain, with my Moroccan-citizen/Spanish-resident husband.

In addition, as soon as I get a job in the US, I plan to move back ahead of him, so I'm trying to figure out the timing of the change of address bit...

I guess it won't matter in terms of expediting since we were also sent to NEBRASSSSKA. Arrgh. I think we're going to be apart quite a bit in the coming months.

Again.

Also trying to figure out the timing of getting the Moroccan and Spainish police clearance certificates.

Certainly is a challenge!

Edited May 9, 2016 by SabrinaJerome

[Harmiliyah 0]

Great, now we can time how long it takes for us Third Country Filers.

[danielswatkins 1]

Just got our NOA1, and we got routed to... Nebraska. "Womp womp", as I think you say in America.

[SabrinaJerome 52]

Just got our NOA1, and we got routed to... Nebraska. "Womp womp", as I think you say in America.

Hahah wompwomp indeed!! Not to give you false hope but Ashtastic just reported that she received her noa2 from Nebraska in one month.

She is also filing from abroad.

Check out and follow the Nebraska i130 filers threa .

[Thesmiths2016 117]

Hahah wompwomp indeed!! Not to give you false hope but Ashtastic just reported that she received her noa2 from Nebraska in one month.

She is also filing from abroad.

Check out and follow the Nebraska i130 filers threa .

Ashtastic had some exceptional circumstances though, so I think they got expedited because of that.

I'm at 48 days and counting ....

[SabrinaJerome 52]

Ashtastic had some exceptional circumstances though, so I think they got expedited because of that.

I'm at 48 days and counting ....

True.

On the USCIS website they describe extenuating circumstances, hardship to the USC etc.