Nationality and Permanent Residence of Finace

[sunray21 0]

My fiance holds a German passport. She has not been in Germany for years, and travels quite a bit. This means she is not a permanent resident of any country. She now lives in Canada ( last 6 months) but is a temporary resident for a three more months until her temporary permit expires. Then she is traveling again. I am a US citizen and putting a K1 visa application for her. What address should she use as her address? Which counsular office should process her Visa? One in Canada or one in Germany?

So far I have read one article that briefly mentions that permant residence and then nationality is used to determine the counsular office to use. Also counsular office can agree to do this on a case by case basis.

Thanks for you help,

sun

[Dan J 277]

My fiance holds a German passport. She has not been in Germany for years, and travels quite a bit. This means she is not a permanent resident of any country. She now lives in Canada ( last 6 months) but is a temporary resident for a three more months until her temporary permit expires. Then she is traveling again. I am a US citizen and putting a K1 visa application for her. What address should she use as her address? Which counsular office should process her Visa? One in Canada or one in Germany?

So far I have read one article that briefly mentions that permant residence and then nationality is used to determine the counsular office to use. Also counsular office can agree to do this on a case by case basis.

Thanks for you help,

sun

If she doesn't have permanent residency in any other country, she will go through her country of citizenship.

[nivesito 0]

My fiance holds a German passport. She has not been in Germany for years, and travels quite a bit. This means she is not a permanent resident of any country. She now lives in Canada ( last 6 months) but is a temporary resident for a three more months until her temporary permit expires. Then she is traveling again. I am a US citizen and putting a K1 visa application for her. What address should she use as her address? Which counsular office should process her Visa? One in Canada or one in Germany?

So far I have read one article that briefly mentions that permant residence and then nationality is used to determine the counsular office to use. Also counsular office can agree to do this on a case by case basis.

Thanks for you help,

sun

Hi! I think she needs to put all the address’s she lived on in past 5 or 10 years, I don't remember. It doesn't matter if it's her permanent or temporary address and also how long she lived on that address.

With a German passport, she should be a permanent resident of Germany. But they have some regulation about when a German citizen goes abroad for a longer period of time they need to say in local office where are they going to live abroad, again that's just what I think.

If she's not staying in Canada it is better to put consulate in Frankfurt because process is really long and according your statement that she travel a lot, who knows where she is going to be once petition is approved.