Spousal Visa Questions (Merged similar topics)

[greenstars 2]

This question is regarding the I-130 application form.  I'm sponsoring my spouse. She lives abroad.  I also am temporarily living outside the US for work, but not in her country. We plan to do consular filing for this reason.  Neither of us currently live in the USA, though I pay nonresident taxes in one state and vote, so I have what I understand is called "domicile" status in the USA (not 100% sure of the terminology)

 

Give all of the above, I'm not faced with completing a form where I've already provided my current address in a foreign country, which is of course essential for consular processing, bu now the form asks for "the address in the United States where the beneficiary intends to live".

 

Is it to provide a parent's address in the USA for this purpose?  I'm guessing that's what most people do.

 

I'm assuming the best course of ac

Edited December 24, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[greenstars 2]

Hello,

 

I'm a naturalized US citizen sponsoring my spouse.  One of the questions asks "if you are a lawful permanent resident, complete item..." and it asks for class of admission, date of admission, and place of admission.

 

I don't believe that as a US citizen I am considered to be a lawful permanent resident, however as I previously was one (as a green card holder) then it might be the case that I'm supposed to fill out this data, as it did pertain to me at one point.  Can anyone clarify this please?

[D-R-J 192]

18 minutes ago, greenstars said:

This question is regarding the I-130 application form.  I'm sponsoring my spouse. She lives abroad.  I also am temporarily living outside the US for work, but not in her country. We plan to do consular filing for this reason.  Neither of us currently live in the USA, though I pay nonresident taxes in one state and vote, so I have what I understand is called "domicile" status in the USA (not 100% sure of the terminology)

 

Give all of the above, I'm not faced with completing a form where I've already provided my current address in a foreign country, which is of course essential for consular processing, bu now the form asks for "the address in the United States where the beneficiary intends to live".

 

Is it to provide a parent's address in the USA for this purpose?  I'm guessing that's what most people do.

 

I'm assuming the best course of ac

We provided my parents’ address, but that is also where we actually intended to live (at least for a bit).

[Crazy Cat 41,976]

56 minutes ago, greenstars said:

One of the questions asks "if you are a lawful permanent resident, complete item..." and it asks for class of admission, date of admission, and place of admission.

You are not.  Interpret literally, and answer honestly.

Edited December 24, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[Crazy Cat 41,976]

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[Boiler 45,653]

Use your US Address

[JeanneAdil 6,539]

you intend to file DFC?

 

you must qualify 

https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-6-part-b-chapter-3

[pushbrk 12,968]

10 hours ago, greenstars said:

This question is regarding the I-130 application form.  I'm sponsoring my spouse. She lives abroad.  I also am temporarily living outside the US for work, but not in her country. We plan to do consular filing for this reason.  Neither of us currently live in the USA, though I pay nonresident taxes in one state and vote, so I have what I understand is called "domicile" status in the USA (not 100% sure of the terminology)

 

Give all of the above, I'm not faced with completing a form where I've already provided my current address in a foreign country, which is of course essential for consular processing, bu now the form asks for "the address in the United States where the beneficiary intends to live".

 

Is it to provide a parent's address in the USA for this purpose?  I'm guessing that's what most people do.

 

I'm assuming the best course of ac

Use parents' address as where she will live, but also as your mailing address.  You living abroad has not bearing on Consular Processing.  Your spouse lives abroad, so Consular Processing.

10 hours ago, greenstars said:

Hello,

 

I'm a naturalized US citizen sponsoring my spouse.  One of the questions asks "if you are a lawful permanent resident, complete item..." and it asks for class of admission, date of admission, and place of admission.

 

I don't believe that as a US citizen I am considered to be a lawful permanent resident, however as I previously was one (as a green card holder) then it might be the case that I'm supposed to fill out this data, as it did pertain to me at one point.  Can anyone clarify this please?

You are no longer an LPR.  Not applicable.

[greenstars 2]

I'm working on filing out the Online  I-130 form.  For the address section, I have a short gap of about 2 weeks where I moved out of one address, went traveling abround in 3 countires.  In order to not have any gap, I assume I should list these hotels as where I lived.  Is that correct?

 

Also I have a few years where I was living in shipping containers in Afghanistan, which only had a group mailing address, no physical address.  Should I put the military APO address for those years?  Or should I put my address back in the states which I left from and returned to?

 

I'm really afraid to leave any gaps in my 5 year address history, lest they revoke my application on the basis that it's not complete.

 

 

[Timona 4,207]

I wouldn't have listed the hotel, had you been touring your country. But since you went to different countries, list all addresses 

Edited January 7 by Timona

[greenstars 2]

On the online I-130, I have a few periods of unemployment.  Each is a completely different case and I'm not sure how to fill out the form for each situation.  If you can advise me, please mention which case you are referring to.

 

Situation #1:

There was a period of about 5 days of unemployment between my last day at one job and my first day at another job.  Technically this is a period of unemployment even though obviously I had another job secured.  I'm concerned about the system rejecting my application if I leave any gap whatsoever in my 5 year timeline.  So for this, my plan is to add a 5 day period where my employer is "unemployed", leave the details blank, and then put in the 5 day date range.  Does this sound good.

 

Situation #2:

I had a period of 1 year of unemployment, but during that year I did about 2 hours of work self-employment.  It was just self-employment as a consultant to an actual LLC.  I did use a business name for my activity, and filed self-employment on my taxes, but this was not a legally registered business, just me doing business under a name.  Also the business had no real address, as I was doing it remotely while traveling interationally.  A mere 2 hours of work.  Should I just add this whole period as unemployment?  One reason is this won't show up on background checks as an employer, so it will mess up the whole application I predict, if I include it.  I had that problem before having my background check get stuck because I couldn't prove a non-existent employer name that I used, even though it was legitimate self-employment work. 

 

 

 

[greenstars 2]

I'm filing an online I-130 for my spouse.  When I get to the page with the question "For whom are you filing this petition?"  there is no way to proceed further.  The options do not appear. Additionally there is an error message saying unable to fetch.

 

Edited January 7 by greenstars
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[Crazy Cat 41,976]

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[Kyle6811 24]

On 12/24/2023 at 3:37 AM, greenstars said:

This question is regarding the I-130 application form.  I'm sponsoring my spouse. She lives abroad.  I also am temporarily living outside the US for work, but not in her country. We plan to do consular filing for this reason.  Neither of us currently live in the USA, though I pay nonresident taxes in one state and vote, so I have what I understand is called "domicile" status in the USA (not 100% sure of the terminology)

 

Give all of the above, I'm not faced with completing a form where I've already provided my current address in a foreign country, which is of course essential for consular processing, bu now the form asks for "the address in the United States where the beneficiary intends to live".

 

Is it to provide a parent's address in the USA for this purpose?  I'm guessing that's what most people do.

 

I'm assuming the best course of ac

Are you intending to do dcf? 

[Crazy Cat 41,976]

3 minutes ago, Kyle6811 said:

Are you intending to do dcf? 

I don't think OP qualifies.