Alex Ve

To answer your question; Type or write, either are fine. (or try the Javascript trick)

Now, for the important thing. Please do everybody (including yourself) a favor and file online. it is much easier for all parties involved, your application can't go missing during shipping.
It is set-up so you cannot forget anything. It's a much much better way of filing.
"Unemployed" in the history section does not mean you filed for unemployment benefits. It means you were not employed.

You can type most of the form on the computer and hadn't write the other fields such as "N/A" if you can't type the "/" etc.
I also highly suggest submitting the application online- is there a reason you are choosing to not file online? 
Unemployment period is if you did not work between jobs- it has no correlation to receiving unemployment benefits (which BTW you are allowed to- it's not a public benefit)

I would also recommend using online filing if you can.  It will not let you submit unless all information is completed so there is much less stress about "have I answered all the questions", it also means the application goes straight into the queue without the delays of the post and someone at USCIS copy typing it into the computer.

Disable Java on Adobe and then you can type whatever you want in any box...basically, there are some boxes which only take numbers. For example, the new I-94 admission numbers have letters too. USCIS has not adjusted the fields to take in letters. So disabling Java on Adobe will do the trick and you do not have to handwrite. You can then type in whatever you want. 
 
On Adobe, go to Edit - Preferences - Javascript and then uncheck "Enable Acrobat Javascripts". I did not invent this. I got this from online research. 
 
To be safe, I will uncheck it, use it for a specific purpose, but put it back just so that I do not end up adding stuff in other fields by mistake

A friend I have went through the same thing, he came to the US 2 years ago on ESTA and he overstayed 2 weeks longer, but he didn't get caught or deported in the airport.
He left with no problems. But when he tried to apply again for ESTA a couple of months ago, the system refused to issue him a visa.
Is he banned for life for an ESTA visa from now on? And if not, when is the ban lifted?
Are the other types of visas still available to him or will he face any trouble upon his previous tourist overstay?
Thank you.

I'm really curious, I'd like to ask the posters that are from Sweden, Netherlands and Australia what made them want to leave their respective countries and move to the US?
I had the impression that those countries are very privileged and provide a great quality of life to their citizens. I mean, have those countries ever experienced any sort of crisis whatsoever?
Compared to the US they have good salaries, access to health care, low crime rates etc.

Not at all. The U.S has a population with over 320 million people, the vast majority are lower class borderline poverty. http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Household-Incomes-by-State.php
Median HOUSEHOLD income (i.e not one person's income) is $50k a year. Can't get far in NYC with a 50k salary unless you're by yourself.

Yes I am aware that there are many nicer places to live in the US than NYC, it just happens that all of my family relatives live there, so I can't go anywhere else at the beginning.
I know I sound bitter and ungrateful for being lucky enough to win a GC, it's just that I am a bit stressed of my future's happiness.
Should I choose to live in Greece with the debt crisis and my low wage but steady job and being with the woman I love, or take my chances in the US hoping that I find a decent paying job and be lucky to meet a nice person?
I see it as a gamble that's why I'm so stressed.

That's what worries me.
That I will be another minimum wage slave just like the majority of the US population, away from the nice places and the people I know since a little kid in my home country and of course the painful separation from the woman I love.
I don't get the fascination people have with the US. It's really endless work until you reach 80s, with less vacation and many work hours compared to some european countries.
One thing that stays with me is when I read a New Yorker saying that he hates that place so much and wants to leave one day, but he can't save enough money to do so and that when americans (poor-middle class) brag about how awesome the US is, they only do so because they don't won't to admit that they can't leave and lie to themselves to feel better.
That's a very depressing thought...

I'd like to know if I am alone in this.
I spent 2 years of emotional stress wether I would get selected for further processing and wether I would eventually get a visa after the interview.
During that time, I met a wonderful person and we had the time of our lives. When I told her initially that there is a chance that I win a green card somewhere along the year she didn't pay much attention saying that now that I found her I wouldn't have a reason to move to another country and I was somewhat dissapointed to hear from her that she would never leave her home country.
As the months were passing by and my interview day was coming closer, I was starting to feel torn inside and stressed because we loved each other very much and it would hurt us both if I was issued successfuly a visa.
And so it was done, after my visa was issued and I told her that I would have to travel to the US in the following months and maybe stay there forever, she was devastated.
She was so emotionally hurt from the news that she was hospitalised for some weeks and did all kinds of medical exams but the doctors didn't found anything wrong with her, it was all a result of the emotional stress she went through.
I really don't sleep well the last 3 months and I am feeling that I am making the greatest mistake that I will regret when I grow older.
Sadly, my family doesn't support me in this and they urge me to move to the US without looking back.
They only care about my financial success, not my emotional happines.
It also gets worse when I read many articles that say "Top reasons NOT to move to NY" like the expensive rents, the fact that everyone is for themselves and nobody notices you, everyone working frantically their assess off etc. Those might seem trivial, but I am a very emotional person and I don't like the feeling of loliness and isolation, nor I glorify money and financial success.
I'd like to hear your thoughts.