K3 question- I married in the states last week, will my process be faster this way. I am back home.

[matt01 0]

I recently looked on the US embassy website and I read that if I married in the states the embassy in vienna where I now live with deal with the process. Will this make my K3 petition faster?

[payxibka 10,045]

I recently looked on the US embassy website and I read that if I married in the states the embassy in vienna where I now live with deal with the process. Will this make my K3 petition faster?

nope

[Dakine 26]

Forget the K3 > Go with the CR-1. K3s are dinosaurs and obsolete.

[matt01 0]

I recently looked on the US embassy website and I read that if I married in the states the embassy in vienna where I now live with deal with the process. Will this make my K3 petition faster?

nope

Thank you.

Forget the K3 > Go with the CR-1. K3s are dinosaurs and obsolete.

Thank you.

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

I think you missunderstood what is on the embassy website in one of two ways:

- The K3 normally must interview where you got married (so if you got married in, say, Singapore but lived in Austria, you'd need to go for the interview in Singapore). The exception is if you got married in the USA, then you can interview where you live with the local embassy, but your wife still needs to petition via her local, US based office for your visa.

- If you got married in the USA, but then returned WITH your wife to Austria, and your USC wife has been legally resident in Austria for 6+ months, then the embassy could do all the processing (called DCF), which is much faster, but does not lead to a K3, instead you'd get a CR-1. But from your message, it seems your wife lives in the USA, so this does not apply anyways.