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Thanks for your input adam and congratulations! I was also thinking to do that at first, but was not sure, hence the reason for this topic. One question though when you mailed your forms to USCIS, did you have to include a letter explaining why you and your wife had a different address? Or was that made clear at your interview as well.

Also thanks blah and nancy for your input, this is really helping us out decide on how to go ahead with filling out our forms.

I just got approved last week for my I-485. My situation was very similar to yours. I am attending law school full time in the West Coast and my wife (girlfriend back then) is working in the East Coast. We only get to see each other every other month for about a week each time. I filed our forms with DIFFERENT addresses. The officer who interviewed us did not ask why we live separately (obviously because I am attending school out of state) but she did ask about how we spend time with each other and how many times we have seen each other.....and some other questions along that line.

my thoughts to you:

- You can use 1 address but you have to be able to prove that such address is the final place, where you guys will reside after all

- Look into processing time line to decide where is a better place (office), either PA or MD, to filed as your address. If you are not in hurry for this AOS process than ignore this

- Gather information regarding each trip you guys visit each other (flight ticket, gas pumping receipt, everything....)

- Be honest and detail during the interview.

Thanks you so much for the detailed response and sorry for not being clear. Yes we are going to be living together at my address after her contracted work at Philadelphia, its our agreed "base" address. Our joint account bank statements, and her personal account are being mailed to my address. So from what i understand it would be best for me to use my address as her primary address but still list her Philadelphia address as one of the addresses she resided in in the last 5 years listing it as the most recent but noting it as temporary. Then include a letter with our application to explain why her most recent address is in Philadelphia, and why it is temporary. As i understand it if we have our interview before her July contract is over at Philadelphia, then we should provide a lot of supporting documents to support why we are living in two different states at the moment. Would that be a good way to move ahead with our application? I just want to be sure about this. Thanks.

Sorry im still unsure on how to move ahead with Our forms. Would it be better if we use my address as her primary address and list her current philadelphia address as temporary address? If we can how will we go about indicating that in our forms. For example in the g-325a form it asks to list her address in the last five years, would we include both my address and her philadelphia address with the same "from" and "to" dates. Thanks, any insight on this would help.

Thank you for the quick reply nancy. So as i understand we should fill out the forms with our different address and not attach an explanation w/ the forms we send to USCIS, but be prepared to explain our situation at the interview?

I'm a U.S. Citizen and I just recently got married to my long-time girlfriend of 3 years this February. She is legally in the U.S. right now as a J-1 Visa Holder interning at a Hotel in Philadelphia PA. She is contracted to intern/work for them for the duration of her 1 year j-1 Visa which expires this coming July. My permanent address is in Maryland, and I'm currently attending college here at the University of Maryland.

Our dilemma is that even though we are currently married we are not able to live with each other yet, due to her work and my school being in different states. However we see each other every week at least 2 days a week, sometimes she visits me here in MD on her day offs and i visit her in Philadelphia on days that i don't have classes.

We are currently filling for Adjustment of Status for my wife. And are in the process of filling I-130 and i-485 concurrently along w/ g-g325a, i-693, and i-864.

My Question is would it be acceptable by USCIS if we fill out the forms with our different addresses, her's being a Philadelphia PA address and mines being in Maryland. If it is acceptable, how would we go about explaining it when we submit our forms, do we need to state it in our cover letter or do we need a separate form to explain our situation. Do we really need to have the same address in all our forms?