lw.mamabird

Thank you lacolinab13!

In the past 5 years, only 1 of my stays in Peru was over 5 months, so I think I will not add a supplemental sheet so as to keep things clear and simple, and not worry about the alternate mailing addresses I have had.

And will list the year in Peru then, as you say, as a residence abroad. When I was teaching english it was only a few hours a week and mostly to people I knew and very informal, so I thought that if I earned under a certain amount that was legal? I may be wrong about that then,

honestly I probably made $500 in that whole year! LOL, so I wasn't worried about declaring that.That was back in 2012

Thank you so much for taking the time to thoughtfully answer my questions!

Thanks for the replies!

Yes, I was thinking to attach an additional page, but I guess what's confusing me is

1. if, for example, in 2015 i worked at one place in maryland for 7 months and spent the other five months of that year in Peru, but was still receiving mail in Maryland, should I even bother with the specifics of being out of the country for 5 months of the year? (this is basically what all of the past five years looks like, working for most of the year in the USA and being on a tourist visa for many months in Peru) i mean people go for long vacations but still consider the address where they receive their mail their residence (just mine changed every year)

and

2. if at one point I was on a tourist visa in Peru for 14 months and making money teaching english privately, technically that is not totally legal since I did not have Peru residence card

do I list that in my employment history? and do I list that as a residence abroad, I mean I lived there over a year but technically was not considered a resident! or should i just consider that time as "tourism"?

3. If I google my name, other addresses that I never actually physically lived in that are my mother's pop up, so I don;t know how much of a background check is done, if that will cause a red flag if those addresses are not listed in my biographic information

Haha, sorry about the confusion!

Thanks so much!

Hi all!

My partner and I are finally about to get our K1 VISA application in the mail, and I feel it should be very straightforward, since we have a very easily documented relationship going on 8 years now and 2 lovely kids between us.

My worry is how to answer the Applicant's residence last five years on the g325a!

I, the petitioner, have moved between Peru (my fiance's home country) and the USA every year at least once since 2008, holding different temporary jobs in agriculture (often on a stipend and not on payroll), generally spending 8 months in the USA working different jobs and 4 months a year in Peru. I have often had my mailing address listed as my mother's residence, but I have never physically lived there.

So i am worried about any incongruencies on my application, in the past 5 years I have lived in 2 different states and, at one point 13 consecutive months in Peru, but I had no legal residence in Peru and no state ID's from the states I was living in the past 5 years (except W2s from Maryland)

My question is, do I list the street addresses of the places I was physically living as my residence, even if i was never legally a resident of the state ?

i don't have a drivers license, only passport as photo ID, was thinking to copy out all the pages of my passport book and send them, but that might really confuse things! LOL

And do I list my 14months living in Peru (where I was self-employed teaching english) as a residence abroad, even though I didn't LEGALLY have a residence card in Peru?

I am about to leave back to Peru in the end of June and worried my crazy history with addresses is going to give me problems!

Thanks so much!