G-325A Employment Data Question

[bigsim 0]

All,

The G-325A form asks for my employment history for the last 5 years and I'm a little unsure of what to include. That's what I get for thinking the form looked easy, I suppose.

I've held my present position since November 2004, though I was working part-time hours until January of this year. Between September 2003 and October 2005 I studied Marketing at the University of Teesside. Between September 2001 and June 2003 I studied at Hartlepool Sixth Form College, and I didn't take a 'proper job' between leaving college and starting university.

Since I'm not quite sure what would and wouldn't constitute employment, and being 21 haven't had 5 years since leaving university to amass actual work experience, how much of that information do I need to include and how do they want me to present that? I've checked the example form but it seems to assume 5 years of work experience and/or unemployment, and I'm not sure how I fit into that.

Adam

[Mononoke28 134]

Even if you held your job as only part time, you still have to put it down as part of your employment history. USCIS doesn't differentiate between a "proper" job or a job you had on the side. And also, any gaps between jobs need to be labeled as unemployed.

[randolady 1]

I ended up filling out the form twice, because I was in a similar situation and wanted to simplify things. Then I decided it was better safe than sorry, and had probably 10-15 lines alternating between random crappy HS/college jobs and unemployment.

[ddkm 0]

im similar...had 10 lines in the end, just going from unemployed to part time to unemployed, seeing as i too am 21 and have been in school the last 5 years with just some part time jobs on the side. the important thing to make sure is that you leave no period out, even just a month

[bigsim 0]

Really, boys and girls and others, what I'm a bit muddled about isn't so much the job I hold now (I've had one job. Ever. At all. Even I can list that without messing up, I hope) but the time before that in which all I did was study. Do I need to tell them I studied? Going back 5 years has me at sixth form college (for the non-UK bods, that's the part between school and university) and I have no idea whether I'd need to tell them that or just put 'unemployed July 1985 to xx/yy/20xx or what...any ideas?

[KateandNik 0]

So, I just created my own topic, but I guess I should have read a little further... although my topic is about the residence spot on the G-325A...

Y'all put ALL of your jobs on the sheet? Like if for instance you... worked for 1 and 1/2 months at a University calling alumni for money for about 6-8 hours a week?

Edited June 18, 2007 by KateandNik

[Yodrak 7]

Adam,

The form is easy, don't make it complicated. You write that you've had one job, from 11/2004 to present? List it that way, no further explanation is necessary.

If it makes you feel comfortable, you can also list below it that you were a student from 09/2001 to 10/2005. Again, no further explanation is necessary.

Yodrak

All,

The G-325A form asks for my employment history for the last 5 years and I'm a little unsure of what to include. That's what I get for thinking the form looked easy, I suppose.

I've held my present position since November 2004, though I was working part-time hours until January of this year. Between September 2003 and October 2005 I studied Marketing at the University of Teesside. Between September 2001 and June 2003 I studied at Hartlepool Sixth Form College, and I didn't take a 'proper job' between leaving college and starting university.

Since I'm not quite sure what would and wouldn't constitute employment, and being 21 haven't had 5 years since leaving university to amass actual work experience, how much of that information do I need to include and how do they want me to present that? I've checked the example form but it seems to assume 5 years of work experience and/or unemployment, and I'm not sure how I fit into that.

Adam

KateandNik,

Don't get rediculous.

Yodrak

.....

Y'all put ALL of your jobs on the sheet? Like if for instance you... worked for 1 and 1/2 months at a University calling alumni for money for about 6-8 hours a week?

[KateandNik 0]

I didn't know how picky the people at USCIS are... I worked for the federal government for awhile and had to fill out a form for a background check... They called all my list of references (not job references, but background references) and then had me come in to speak with them about the information I had listed... Although, thinking about it... I guess that more pertained to the fact that I wasn't born in the U.S.

Anyway, thanks again for commenting Yodrak! Sometimes we all need that hand to come down and say "Stop!" I really appreciate it!!!

[TimsDaisy 0]

I had to attach additional sheets because I was in the same student-boat. I had jobs for the summers and then none for the school year. So during the parts where I had none, I put "none." They aren't checking your resume in hopes of hiring you - so they won't make value judgments about having periods of "none" or "unemployed," etc.

As mentioned: where the government *does* give clear directions (and they don't always do that - like with what constituted "Evidence", etc) it's best to follow them and not question things. These forms are carefully created to aim for a rather low reading level, which I think ends up causing most people a headache because they think past that low level into "but what are they really asking" territory.

Where something is basic like "list where you've worked for the past 5 years," answer the question.

Best of luck!