New Member - Long Story

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It's about residency, not marital status, unfortunately. I think they figure that after a long period of time of living in the US, the non-USC would have filed for citizenship (so hence if you moved to the UK and wanted to move back, you'd have the same rights to just walk right in without paperwork). It's such a shame that you had problems with the GC.

I appreciate the difference between residency and marital status, however I think that it would make more sense to try to combine those two factors somehow then treating them as two independent issues.

Also, weren't the only people who were as having trouble with our GCs, we met a woman from Germany who was in her tenth year (!) of trying to get her GC sorted. We thought our seven years was bad, lol. So, yea, I don't think we could have applied for citizenship until we got our GC anyway.

I think a lot of it came down to the people working in the INS processing center in Los Angeles. They were about the most inefficient, unhelpful and downright rudest government workers I've ever met. And that's saying something!

[ponyespresso 0]

Don't go for K3 eventually but of IR (I130 only)

marginally longer but avoiding paperwork in the US you know it can last.

Ok, you've lost me. On the Embassy Website under Immigrant Visas I can't see anything about IR, only K status.

Could you explain what an IR is? Cheers!