Process Delays due to Travels to Particular Countries?

[panterchen 1]

Hello everybody,

I am a Vermont June filer and until now we don't have to worry about being approved soon.

However, I was wondering whether we might have to expect additional delays because of the following:

My fiance and I met in Turkey and both lived there for quite some (me 4 months, him 10 months). Additionally, he has also been studying for 4 months in Tunesia and I have been to Moscow some years ago.

Does anybody if that might cause additional delays for our processing of the K1 petition? Does USCIS do additional checks for some countries you travelled to (esp. middle east and such)?

Has anybody experienced things like that?

Good luck to everyone on this exciting and stressful journey. But at the end it will have been worth every single second. :-)

[Chris & Mara 0]

Where you have travelled to should have no bearing on your application, it might slow down your background check slightly as they have to find the information on you from the periods of time you have spent in these places however, but its not going to be something that holds it back for months on end.

The biggest thing that slows down the Check however is if you are from a country of higher fraud or a 3rd or 2nd world nation where the records arent always kept as well.

Edited October 9, 2008 by Chris & Mara

[payxibka 10,045]

should cause no problems with the USCIS

[Otto 83]

Hello everybody,

I am a Vermont June filer and until now we don't have to worry about being approved soon.

However, I was wondering whether we might have to expect additional delays because of the following:

My fiance and I met in Turkey and both lived there for quite some (me 4 months, him 10 months). Additionally, he has also been studying for 4 months in Tunesia and I have been to Moscow some years ago.

Does anybody if that might cause additional delays for our processing of the K1 petition? Does USCIS do additional checks for some countries you travelled to (esp. middle east and such)?

Has anybody experienced things like that?

Good luck to everyone on this exciting and stressful journey. But at the end it will have been worth every single second. :-)

Traveling (or not) will not cause delays (nor would not having traveled speed up a process). According to your timeline, you seem to be right on target and I hope you hear some good news soon.

[panterchen 1]

Thank you, guys! That's a reliever.

We just worried since we all know that the US unfortunately has some kind of paranoia against muslim countries right now ...