Travel History; Multiple "City/town or region of visit"

[slashmaybe]

I studied in the US for two years from 2011-2013; and then worked in the US from 2013 - 2015; my country of origin is India.

Note that during the 4 years in the US; I made 2 trips back home to India, dates:
may 10,2012 - 19th june 2012 and,
feb 27, 2015 - march 10,2015


I've decided to put in my Travel History as follows(with India as home country):

Trip 1 - Aug x 2011 - may 10th, 2012 - purpose :educational
Trip 2 - 19th june, 2012 - feb 27, 2015 - purpose: educational AND employment
Trip 3 - march 10, 2015 - Aug x, 2015 - purpose: Employment

Basically, I'm treating my 4-year employment/educational stay in the US as a series of trips from my home country. Is the above an acceptable way to arrange Travel History?

Another question I had is :
The field "City/town or region of visit" is compulsory - but there are multiple cities I visited during my US "trips" as one might expect.

I'm planning to put in the city I stayed the most time in during each of these trips - is this acceptable?

Thanks in advance!

 

[slashmaybe]

Anybody?

 

[Achad]

Anybody?

Mentioning travel back to home country will be an overkill. I did not mention my travels to home country from US as it does not involve a different country than your home country and the country of residence

 

[slashmaybe]

No I'm not mentioning trips back to the home country - I'm only mentioning trips to the US from my home country. ..

 

[Achad]

No I'm not mentioning trips back to the home country - I'm only mentioning trips to the US from my home country. ..

Why not both ?

 

[slashmaybe]

Why not both.. what? Like you said, I'm not mentioning trips to my home country because the application clearly mentions that you don't have to.

See, I was in the US for 4 years (studied and worked). In that 4 year period, I came back to Home Country twice for vacation.

I'm counting the periods I was in the US as "trips"

For ex. say I was in the us from 1st Jan 2011 to 1st Jan 2013 - In between, I went to India to visit family from 1st May 2011 - 1st June 2011. I am in Home Country from 2009- 2019, otherwise. So, in this case I've made my trips as follows:

1. 1st Jan 2011 - 1st May 2011 - Trip to US; purpose: educational
2. 1st June 2011 - 1st Jan 2013 - Trip to US; purpose: educational

You see what I did there?

 

[Achad]

Why not both.. what? Like you said, I'm not mentioning trips to my home country because the application clearly mentions that you don't have to.

See, I was in the US for 4 years (studied and worked). In that 4 year period, I came back to Home Country twice for vacation.

I'm counting the periods I was in the US as "trips"

For ex. say I was in the us from 1st Jan 2011 to 1st Jan 2013 - In between, I went to India to visit family from 1st May 2011 - 1st June 2011. I am in Home Country from 2009- 2019, otherwise. So, in this case I've made my trips as follows:

1. 1st Jan 2011 - 1st May 2011 - Trip to US; purpose: educational
2. 1st June 2011 - 1st Jan 2013 - Trip to US; purpose: educational

You see what I did there?

My bad, i assumed your country of residence is still US. If not, this makes sense to me.

 

[slashmaybe]

No no India is my home country

 

[slashmaybe]

Pinging this up in the hopes that a kind soul would verify my original post.

I'm a little shaky about whether "Purpose of Travel" can be "Educational" or "Employment" (at the same time, I don't see what else it could be)

 

[tallguywithbeard]

Trip 1 - Aug x 2011 - may 10th, 2012 - purpose :educational
Trip 2 - 19th june, 2012 - feb 27, 2015 - purpose: educational AND employment
Trip 3 - march 10, 2015 - Aug x, 2015 - purpose: Employment

I get what you are trying to do, and currently I am stuck in the same dilemma.

But from what I understand, there is a clear instruction: Please do not leave any gaps in time.
This leaves gaps in time since there is not travel mentioned to home country.

Mentioning travel back to home country is indeed overkill, though I don't know how else the gaps can be filled.

I studied in Singapore for 4 years, and in that time I traveled to india for vacation 15 times....
Literally have 30 entries flying from india to singapore, singapore to india, india to singapore...and so on.



But if I don't, my timeline looks like
2008-04 to 2012-06 Education Singapore
And about 15 times I traveled from india to singapore between these dates... I am not sure if keeping an overarching date on top is viable, since I've been asked to resubmit the Schedule A form.

The immigration officer was not clear on what was missing, and I couldn''t find any irrelevant/wrong info...except that I hadn't broken down the travels.


So now I guess the ideal way is.

2008-04 to 2008-07 Education Singapore
2008-07 to 2008-07 Vacation Home Country India
2008-07 to 2008-11 Education Singapore
and so on....

 

[slashmaybe]

I get what you are trying to do, and currently I am stuck in the same dilemma.

But from what I understand, there is a clear instruction: Please do not leave any gaps in time.
This leaves gaps in time since there is not travel mentioned to home country.

Mentioning travel back to home country is indeed overkill, though I don't know how else the gaps can be filled.

I studied in Singapore for 4 years, and in that time I traveled to india for vacation 15 times....
Literally have 30 entries flying from india to singapore, singapore to india, india to singapore...and so on.



But if I don't, my timeline looks like
2008-04 to 2012-06 Education Singapore
And about 15 times I traveled from india to singapore between these dates... I am not sure if keeping an overarching date on top is viable, since I've been asked to resubmit the Schedule A form.

The immigration officer was not clear on what was missing, and I couldn''t find any irrelevant/wrong info...except that I hadn't broken down the travels.


So now I guess the ideal way is.

2008-04 to 2008-07 Education Singapore
2008-07 to 2008-07 Vacation Home Country India
2008-07 to 2008-11 Education Singapore
and so on....

Did you submit your application with "2008-04 to 2012-06 Education Singapore" as one entry? If so, I can understand the AO asking for a breakup of the travel dates to Singapore in between.

"But from what I understand, there is a clear instruction: Please do not leave any gaps in time.
This leaves gaps in time since there is not travel mentioned to home country."

No, no I don't think this applies to Travel History, no? - otherwise, this would mean we would always have to be travelling somewhere (just checked the wording to confirm). I'm guessing that the AO expects you to mention all the trips that you are taking with Singapore as the destination (and not India as the destination because India is your home country)...

 

[tallguywithbeard]

No, no I don't think this applies to Travel History, no? - otherwise, this would mean we would always have to be travelling somewhere (just checked the wording to confirm). I'm guessing that the AO expects you to mention all the trips that you are taking with Singapore as the destination (and not India as the destination because India is your home country)

I agree, since india is the home country.
But I am thankfully lucky not to have travelled to india for more than a month...for those who did, the gaps would appear automatically since

2008-04 to 2009-04 Singapore Education
2009-05 to 2009-06 India (for example, which doesn't have to be mentioned)
2009-06 to 2009-12 Singapore Education

If I omit the second line then there is a gap month 2009-05

When I submitted the original application my personal history section was auto generated. The education and work experience was auto filled and I filled the blanks with unemployment.
Travel history was a separate section altogether and not part of personal history, plus travel history had YYYY-MM-DD format, so seeing the passport stamps, I could go extremely specific back and forth.

Now they want the Schedule A form to fill..and I have no idea how to combine travel history and personal history together.
The worst is the AO has not asked for anything...so I have no idea where there was a mistake.

You've received your ITA recently I see...I've filled and applied since Feb 07...after 9 months they are asking for full info again...completely stuck where things went wrong