No Information about previous family? What to put for addresses?

[saraswati007 0]

Hi all,

 

VisaJourney was indispensable to us during our fiance visa / Green Card process. Thank you! Now... time for Citizenship! Could you help me with a couple of quick questions...

 

My husband is applying.

 

1) If we e-file, how do we send supporting documents? Is that something they ask for during e-file, via scans or pdfs?

 

1a) Generally, do you prefer e-filing?

 

2) My husband is retired and has never worked in the US. Under the employment section, is it better to put "unemployed" or "retired"

 

3) My husband has been in a previous marriage. Divorced a long time ago. We have the divorce paper, but the N400 also asks for previous wife's address. The marriage and divorce happened entirely in the UK, and he does not know her current address (hasn't seen her in 20 years). What to put for address?

 

4) He has a child (now adult) from that previous marriage. That child/adult cut off contact with him also 20 years ago, so he does not know where the person now lives. What to put for that adult child's current address?

 

Thank you all for any help you can give!

[Quarknase 1,072]

Hello,

 

I am literally in the process of filling out the online form, so here are some answers

 

Re 1) - Correct, it's a guided process and after you filled out everything, it asks you to upload the documents. Required documents are indicated (such as Greencard front and back) as individual steps, additional documents can be uploaded in one category and there it's not specified to you want to name documents properly.

I uploaded a mix of scans and photos (PDFs and JPGs).

 

Re 1a) Totally - the case number becomes available immediately after payment has been made. Gives you the opportunity to online stalk your case from the moment you submit

 

Re 2) My gut feeling tells me "retired" because unemployed makes him more vulnerable to being considered as potential public charge. However, this is only my logical brain, and by no means to be taken as correct. Maybe others can chime in.

 

Re 3) The online form only asks for the birth date of previous spouse. And the divorce certificate, obviously.

 

4) This I cannot respond to properly, since I checked "no" for children. If you're doing online filing, just see once you get to that screen of you can enter "unknown" or similar.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

[Wuozopo 4,293]

16 hours ago, saraswati007 said:

My husband is retired and has never worked in the US. Under the employment section, is it better to put "unemployed" or "retired"

I would pick retired because that is most descriptive of his status. He's not between jobs, laid off, or looking for work which fits unemployed.

 

16 hours ago, saraswati007 said:

He has a child (now adult) from that previous marriage. That child/adult cut off contact with him also 20 years ago, so he does not know where the person now lives. What to put for that adult child's current address?

Unknown is always an acceptable answer when you don't know an answer. Or if the form asks for street, city, country maybe unknown, unknown, United Kingdom.