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Both are for spouses

K-3 means you are granted a visa so you can enter the US. You must then adjust status to a permanent resident

Cr-1 means you are granted a visa and enter the US as a permanent resident.

The K-3 is obsolete (one time it did serve a purpose) in my opinion and almost twice as expensive

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Good luck.

For those that don't need to obtain a work permit right away because they commute to work in Canada and therefore make the EAD obsolete, I would say that the K-3 is the way to go. Plus you don't have to travel to Montreal, where if you don't happen to speak French you are treated like (insert 4-letter word here). So yeah, I'm pursuing the K-3 so that my wife can move down here quickly and since she has a good paying job in Canada, not far from where I (soon to be we) live, she'll get her EAD when she gets her green card and save the hassle and expense of the round trip plane ticket to Montreal, hotel stay unless you catch a miracle with timing the flight and the interview, meals if you do happen to stay overnight (which is likely), etc. So the CR-1 may be technically less expensive but the cost of travel plus the hassle far exceeds the cost of the AOS.

There's a geographical line, East of which Canadians must interview for the K3 in Montreal anyway. Western Canadian border town dwellers are good candidates for the K3.

Exactly my point which is why to reject the K-3 as "obsolete" is rather closed-minded thinking.

Which is why I most often describe the K3 as "virtually obsolete". Unless you have special circumstances it's obsolete.