I am a petitioner filing an I-130 for my wife, concurrently with I-485. I live in California, while she's on F-1 visa and has to keep her official residence in Georgia due to school requirements, although she has spent considerable time with me in CA. We intend to use my CA address as her "mailing address" on both forms, but her physical address must be put as in GA.
I have two questions:
1. To which lockbox should we mail the package? Should it be sent to the one corresponding to beneficiary's physical address in Georgia (as I understand from the instruction), or can we use my address's lockbox in California? A lawyer told us that since we put here mailing address in CA, we can send it to CA's lockbox, but I'm not sure. Would sending it to the California lockbox cause any issues?
2. A more general question is what USCIS office will handle adjudication over our case? Specifically related to Item 61 on Form I-130, which asks, "The beneficiary will apply for adjustment of status at the USCIS office in:" Should we put California or Georgia for this item? I'd prefer that the USCIS in CA handles our case (since my wife has unofficially lived with me in CA and eventually intends to move here, I feel that the case might proceed more smoothly), but do we even have a choice here?
Has anybody had a similar experience? Thanks for your help in advance!
I have two questions:
1. To which lockbox should we mail the package? Should it be sent to the one corresponding to beneficiary's physical address in Georgia (as I understand from the instruction), or can we use my address's lockbox in California? A lawyer told us that since we put here mailing address in CA, we can send it to CA's lockbox, but I'm not sure. Would sending it to the California lockbox cause any issues?
2. A more general question is what USCIS office will handle adjudication over our case? Specifically related to Item 61 on Form I-130, which asks, "The beneficiary will apply for adjustment of status at the USCIS office in:" Should we put California or Georgia for this item? I'd prefer that the USCIS in CA handles our case (since my wife has unofficially lived with me in CA and eventually intends to move here, I feel that the case might proceed more smoothly), but do we even have a choice here?
Has anybody had a similar experience? Thanks for your help in advance!