Foreign Address

[ploovo 0]

My fiancee does not have a typical mailing address, according to her, her address is like the pink house, across the walkway from the bar, number 146. How in the world do you fill out the form for this type of address?

[cellarlily 0]

Has she ever received a piece of mail before? If so, how was it addressed?

[Cécy 44]

In some small villages there aren't street numbers, and sometimes there aren't even street names.

If you know a name or nickname of the area of the city/ village where she lives in as well as the name of the city and zipcode, then it should be enough. You cannot invent an address that doesn't exist.

My mom's address is like that:

Upper village (not kidding)

Zip, City

Country.

Just put it as acurately as possible.

[*JG* 2]

My fiancee does not have a typical mailing address, according to her, her address is like the pink house, across the walkway from the bar, number 146. How in the world do you fill out the form for this type of address?

My husband's was pretty much the same in Jamaica. Write it in like he says it. The US will not send him any mail anyhow. Plus, they have seen it all. His country's embassy will understand completely.

[Elmira 1]

I put as my address in I-129F Form my mailing address what is actually my job address and i always use this address as my mailing address (it is more safe), but in G-325A I put my residence address as they asked to put address of residence.

[rebex05 1]

My fiancee does not have a typical mailing address, according to her, her address is like the pink house, across the walkway from the bar, number 146. How in the world do you fill out the form for this type of address?

I have friends that live in Costa Rica and have mailed them things to addresses just like this, so go ahead and put the address as she gives it to you.

[Eric-Pris 1,607]

In some small villages there aren't street numbers, and sometimes there aren't even street names.

If you know a name or nickname of the area of the city/ village where she lives in as well as the name of the city and zipcode, then it should be enough. You cannot invent an address that doesn't exist.

My mom's address is like that:

Upper village (not kidding)

Zip, City

Country.

Just put it as acurately as possible.

My girlfriend lives in CR also. I don't know if you know this but they don't use the typical addresses anywhere in the country, including San Jose, it's capital city. It's not village and small towns.

Their addresses reference a landmark and go from there. For example, the hotel I stayed at had an address of:

Hotel

300 meters west and 100 north of National Theatre (or hospital, car dealership, anything)

San Jose, Costa Rica

Last Decemeber, I sent her some photos with a letter, but they haven't arrived yet.

Here are a couple tips/suggestions:

-One trick to increase your chances of mail actually reaching your destination in CR is to include a phone number at the bottom of the address, so the postal people can call and get directions.

John Smith

250 m north of xxx

San Jose, Costa Rica

506-123-4567

-another suggestion is to open an account with a mailbox service. There are a few different ones. THe fees aren't usually too bad, less than $20/month. Some will even deliver the mail to another CR address, if requested. The UPS Store has service in CR:

(http://www.mbecr.com/services/mailbox.htm)

As far as how to fill out the forms.... I know there isn't enough space/lines for "200 m west and 100 m south of xxx". I was thinking about leaving it blank and attaching a supplemental sheet of paper explaining how the addresses aren't the same as here and include the full address incl the phone number. On the forms I'd write "please see supplement info sheet #3".

My other worry is that there are forms and letters that the embassy and consulate will be sending my girlfriend once we start the process. My worry, as is your as well, is that she may not receive them. I don't know what to tell you. The mailbox service may be the way to go.

Good luck

[eric_and_teresa 10]

Addresses in Costa Rica are like that, to us they're complicated but I'm pretty sure that the US Embassy there and any costa rican mail service is aware of how it works.

Just write her address exactly how she told you, even if it looks weird to you (200 meters from X place)

Here's a tip:

In City/Town: write the name of the city or town where she lives (i.e. Alajuela, San José, etc)

State: Write the province/provincia.

Be aware that in Costa Rica some Cities and Provinces have the same name, like San José is the City but is also the name of the Province.

Feel free to PM me, if you need any help.

[pushbrk 13,639]

Addresses in Costa Rica are like that, to us they're complicated but I'm pretty sure that the US Embassy there and any costa rican mail service is aware of how it works.

Just write her address exactly how she told you, even if it looks weird to you (200 meters from X place)

Here's a tip:

In City/Town: write the name of the city or town where she lives (i.e. Alajuela, San José, etc)

State: Write the province/provincia.

Be aware that in Costa Rica some Cities and Provinces have the same name, like San José is the City but is also the name of the Province.

Feel free to PM me, if you need any help.

I get a kick out of this. In the sixties, I lived on a ranch in the Oklahoma panhandle, 14 miles from town and three miles from a mailbox that was six miles from the nearest paved road. Once I had received mail to..

Mike XXX

C/O M. E. Day

Beaver, Oklahoma

...a couple times, my family could drop the care of and just send to my name in city and state. I expect now, one would need to add the zip code. There were none then.