Away for 2+ years and about to petition for my second husband...

[nejay 4]

I am about to petition for my second husband after 6+years of marriage. I stayed in my home country for 2 years 5 months. I am wondering whether that would be a problem for me as an american citizen. I was just trying to fill out the G-325a form and saw that i have to put in my address for the past five years. Can someone please help me out by explaining what's going to happen.

[Laurel0708 21]

I applied for the K-1 visa which is a little different, but I was living in a country that was neither his country nor mine: Costa Rica. I had lived there for the last year and a half. I put my address there. There was no problem in the processing. In fact, I think it showed the validity of our relationship even more than any number of visits. It is required that you have a mailing address in the USA to receive different pieces of information from USCIS. I used my parents' address.

[Penguin_ie 5,999]

Not a problem as such, but two potential issues:

- You need to show you maintained or are intending io re-establish domicile in the USA. Such as having kept your drivers license current, having bank accounts, furniture in storage etc, or if the latter, looking for a job, enrolling kids in school, signing a lease or buying a home etc

- The I-864 affadavit of support; you will need to sponsor your husband on assets, or have a US based co-sponsor. Also back file taxes if you haven't filed them while abroad.

[Ryan H 3,856]

Moved from Progress Reports to Process & Procedures.

[nejay 4]

Thanks for the responses.

I meant to say in the first sentence that I'm about to petition for my second spouse after 6+years of being married to the first and divorce.

While I was away, I kept my driver license current which is from 2013-2021, I also kept my bank accounts current, my apartment I kept until August of 2014, and I had all my mails going to my best friend's house. Right now,I got a job and I have been working few days after I arrived in the USA.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

Thanks for the responses.

I meant to say in the first sentence that I'm about to petition for my second spouse after 6+years of being married to the first and divorce.

While I was away, I kept my driver license current which is from 2013-2021, I also kept my bank accounts current, my apartment I kept until August of 2014, and I had all my mails going to my best friend's house. Right now,I got a job and I have been working few days after I arrived in the USA.

So, you are currently in America and working? Then, domicile is not an issue.

Did you get citizenship through that marriage or did you already petition another foreign spouse or neither?

[nejay 4]

I'm now in the States and working since the middle of July.

Actually,I gained my citizenship through naturalization. I was married to a guy whom I petition for in 2009 few months after our wedding. Well,last year 2015 April I stopped being intimate with him- got separated in September 2015 and Divorce was finalized early February of 2016. I was legally married for 6+years but ended up in divorce.

I met another guy in my home country and got married to him 2-3 months after my divorce was finalized.