CR-1 Application Question

[MsMariah 0]

I wanted to say that YES you can send your application from egypt to USCIS, it will take approximately 6 months to be examined there and YES I sent a photocopy of both mine and my husbands passport with my original application. Once it's approved at USCIS it will get sent to NVC where you'll have to supply more documents to support an immigrant application (original birth certificate, original marriage certificate, copies of passport bio pages, and the Police clearance) along with the affadavit of support. After these papers have been approved (if you are prepared you can do this in one month) you will then be scheduled an interview with the embassy at their earliest convenience, which has been taking at least 2 months in general. So we are talking about nine months.

The main benefit that I see is that during this process, you can return home and just be seperated from your spouse until the visa is approved. Other than that I think direct filing at the consular is that you can FILE and wait a few months and get the visa directly. So if you are sick of waiting and want to go home, feel free to go home and wait for him to mail his passport pages so you can file with USCIS, if you don't want to be apart, then wait for his passport and file directly with the embassy.

Given the choice I would have stayed with my husband and filed directly, but my daughter is not allowed out of the country and I can't allow myself to be gone for longer than her summer visitation with her father.... and for Jordan residency is after a year.

Good Luck,

Mariah