Faster or easier processing for EU citizens?

[Shad and Dani 3]

I don't buy the "first come, first serve" immigration policy. It's pretty obvious that someone from Canada is processed faster than someone from the middle east.

Any opinions or experiences?

[payxibka 10,045]

I don't buy the "first come, first serve" immigration policy. It's pretty obvious that someone from Canada is processed faster than someone from the middle east.

Any opinions or experiences?

it is FIFO (relatively speaking) but some petitions/applications are approvable with 15 minutes of review time and others take much longer.... If an adjudicator hits a difficult file, they will put out the needed information requests, set the file aside and move to the next one.... If it takes 2 or 3 weeks (or longer) to get the needed information to approve a file then it is what it is... however, in the meantime that adjudicator may have approved several hundred petitions while waiting....

[Bulgarican 0]

I don't buy the "first come, first serve" immigration policy. It's pretty obvious that someone from Canada is processed faster than someone from the middle east.

Any opinions or experiences?

According to my experience, i'm from Bulgaria, 26 years old applied for K1 visa in august, because i was told it would have been risk to apply for a tourist visa and still waiting for approval for 142 days, i can tell you everything is individual, it doesnt matter which country you're from, i also thought since Bulgaria is in EU things could be easier but no...you can see a difference later after the K1 visa is approved, cause in bulgarian people pass the interview at the us embassy easier than other countries, for example China or Philippines, probably because there are not so many bulgarians applying for K1 visas...

Tell Dani to be patient and you guys be ready for anything...this is simply unpredictable

Good luck

[pushbrk 12,876]

I don't buy the "first come, first serve" immigration policy. It's pretty obvious that someone from Canada is processed faster than someone from the middle east.

Any opinions or experiences?

Don't confuse service with approval. Some cases require more service, requiring more time. It's a multi-stage process.

[panterchen 1]

Forget that logic. I am from Germany and we are waiting for 197 days now. I hate ###### USCIS. Sorry for venting. We just talked once more to the useless call center agents.

[Shad and Dani 3]

I don't buy the "first come, first serve" immigration policy. It's pretty obvious that someone from Canada is processed faster than someone from the middle east.

Any opinions or experiences?

According to my experience, i'm from Bulgaria, 26 years old applied for K1 visa in august, because i was told it would have been risk to apply for a tourist visa and still waiting for approval for 142 days, i can tell you everything is individual, it doesnt matter which country you're from, i also thought since Bulgaria is in EU things could be easier but no...you can see a difference later after the K1 visa is approved, cause in bulgarian people pass the interview at the us embassy easier than other countries, for example China or Philippines, probably because there are not so many bulgarians applying for K1 visas...

Tell Dani to be patient and you guys be ready for anything...this is simply unpredictable

Good luck

Thanks for your informative reply Dani! It seems we are all in the same boat here. Our stories and countries are almost exactly the same I hope things go quickly for you and Chris! By the way, Did you get engaged at Tsarvets? Dani happily accepted my proposal at Asens' Monument on December 10th!

[Bulgarican 0]

I don't buy the "first come, first serve" immigration policy. It's pretty obvious that someone from Canada is processed faster than someone from the middle east.

Any opinions or experiences?

According to my experience, i'm from Bulgaria, 26 years old applied for K1 visa in august, because i was told it would have been risk to apply for a tourist visa and still waiting for approval for 142 days, i can tell you everything is individual, it doesnt matter which country you're from, i also thought since Bulgaria is in EU things could be easier but no...you can see a difference later after the K1 visa is approved, cause in bulgarian people pass the interview at the us embassy easier than other countries, for example China or Philippines, probably because there are not so many bulgarians applying for K1 visas...

Tell Dani to be patient and you guys be ready for anything...this is simply unpredictable

Good luck

Thanks for your informative reply Dani! It seems we are all in the same boat here. Our stories and countries are almost exactly the same I hope things go quickly for you and Chris! By the way, Did you get engaged at Tsarvets? Dani happily accepted my proposal at Asens' Monument on December 10th!

You're welcome by the way you should create your timeline to estimate the waiting you'll have to go thru

[miss g 1]

haha someone told me it would be quicker and easier coz i am from EUROPE my ### it is.. its the same for everyone

[*julez* 124]

No one gets processed faster based on the country their fiance is from.

[hxxrmonkey 0]

I think that, as someone mentioned above, and as it says in the FAQ with the former USCIS worker, some workers will open a box and pull the difficult files and blaze through the rest, then go back to the difficult ones, or work a little here on a hard one, and take a break and do an easy one. My fiance is Irish and ours was only 96 days. We got ours during that big week before Christmas.

You can get a lot of insight from that FAQ. Here's the link - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...dicator-q-and-a

You can get LOADS of information off that... it's slightly dated though.

[sueandbarry 0]

My Fiance is a UK citizen, living in Sweden. I am USC from CA.

Filed July 27 2007

Waited aug, sept, oct, nov, dec, Jan 2008 , feb, march, april, may, june,

RFE's long long wait

Interviewed in July of 2008 (1 year of waiting)

Denied

Filed Waiver after months of getting all documents together

IF we are approved by April, 2009, it will be 1 year and 9 months

EU citizens get NO break. at least not that I can see!

[Laura+Tom 2]

It don't think that is the case. It's also a myth that if you are military you get processed quicker.

[KimandRuss 0]

There are security checks at every stage of this process. Any one of which can hold 'anyone' up for any length of time.

Many from the middle east will have similar names and/or affiliations which may send up a red flag, therefore, many tend to be stuck in checks and/or AP for longer periods of time but, as you see above, anyone can be held up. We have nothing in our backround at all but we were still held up at NVC for several weeks because of security checks.

Just for the benefit of the discussion... Military deployment of USC is grounds for expidite so those folks certainly do get processed faster but unless you ask for it you're in the same boat as the rest of us.

good luck

[Laura+Tom 2]

There are security checks at every stage of this process. Any one of which can hold 'anyone' up for any length of time.

Many from the middle east will have similar names and/or affiliations which may send up a red flag, therefore, many tend to be stuck in checks and/or AP for longer periods of time but, as you see above, anyone can be held up. We have nothing in our backround at all but we were still held up at NVC for several weeks because of security checks.

Just for the benefit of the discussion... Military deployment of USC is grounds for expidite so those folks certainly do get processed faster but unless you ask for it you're in the same boat as the rest of us.

good luck

Oh I know about the expedite, but it was mentioned in another discussion by someone else that if the adjudicating officer sees the petitioner is military then they are immediately 'put to the top of the pile' as such. And this person believed it. Total codswallop lol.

[just_friend 2]

I don't know about easier processing for EU citizens but I don't understand what do they mean by easy cases. Some couple know eachother for years, have plenty of documents, photos, etc to prove their relationship and they are still on the back of the line, waiting 6+ months. How to they define who is an easy case and who is not? But anyway I guess asking all those questions won't help us getting approved any faster so we better gather all the patience we have and wait for them to make a move. Good luck to all of you and specially to my coutry mates from Bulgaria. I really wish all of you get approved as soon as possible so they can get to us (November filling) A bit selfish but hey we are all impatient