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Greg&Miriam   0

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Hello, mi name is Miriam, I am mexican and my husband is american. I´m actually in Mexico and my husband in USA. We´ve been married since april 2004 and the last year we got married by the church :yes:

It´s a long story, so long that I doné even want to bored you talking about that. I´ve been reading almost daily your cases and I just want to say THANK YOU, this forum is a "light in the darkness".

My question is simple, we got approved the I 130 in july-18-2006 and the I-129F YESTERDAY!! july-24-2006, just 6 days later, almost simultaneous!!

So, I´m not sure what to do. Should we take the I-130 way? How much is the difference in waiting time? I´ll ask for the waiting time because we must go to CD Juarez :crying: in any way and you already know that is one of the slower consulates :help:

I really appreciate all your past comments and if anybody has an advice I will really appreciate that.

God bless!!

ps. If anybody needs to know ANYTHING about Mexico or Ciudad Juarez, please feel free to ask.

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simple_male   1

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Hello, mi name is Miriam, I am mexican and my husband is american. I´m actually in Mexico and my husband in USA. We´ve been married since april 2004 and the last year we got married by the church :yes:

It´s a long story, so long that I doné even want to bored you talking about that. I´ve been reading almost daily your cases and I just want to say THANK YOU, this forum is a "light in the darkness".

My question is simple, we got approved the I 130 in july-18-2006 and the I-129F YESTERDAY!! july-24-2006, just 6 days later, almost simultaneous!!

So, I´m not sure what to do. Should we take the I-130 way? How much is the difference in waiting time? I´ll ask for the waiting time because we must go to CD Juarez :crying: in any way and you already know that is one of the slower consulates :help:

I really appreciate all your past comments and if anybody has an advice I will really appreciate that.

God bless!!

ps. If anybody needs to know ANYTHING about Mexico or Ciudad Juarez, please feel free to ask.

First of all, congratulations and it is a pleasant dilemma for you! I would say that you keep both processes going at the same time. I think, you will get a K-3 interview date very soon. usally, I-130 case sits at the NVC for about two and a half months to three months whereas the I-129F case sits at the NVC only for few weeks.

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I-130 Timeline with USCIS:

It took 92 days for I-130 to get approved from the filing date

NVC Process of I-130:

It took 78 days to complete the NVC process

Interview Process at The U.S. Embassy

Interview took 223 days from the I-130 filing date. Immigrant Visa was issued right after the interview

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Cygnet   0

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I agree with simple_male. For now, try to keep both processes going at the same time, and you will probably get the K-3 interview sooner.

CR-1

09/16/2005 Mailed I-130 (CSC)

09/21/2005 NOA 1

02/07/2006 NOA 2 (Day 143)

02/25/2006 Petitioner receives AOS Bill in U.S. (Day 161)

02/27/2006 AOS Bill (regular USPS) and DS-3032 (Canada Post regular) are mailed out

03/21/2006 Petitioner receives I-864 package (Day 185)

03/22/2006 Beneficiary receives IV Bill and sends payment - regular mail (Day 186)

03/24/2006 Petitioner sends back I-864 (Day 188)

04/13/2006 Beneficiary receives DS-230 (Day 208)

05/10/2006 Beneficiary sends back DS-230 and docs to NVC via Fedex (Day 235)

05/19/2006 NVC issues RFE on Question # 20 on the DS-230. (Day 244)

05/29/2006 Beneficiary receives RFE and sends it off (Day 254)

06/02/2006 NVC receives RFE (Day 258)

06/16/2006 Case Complete! (Day 272)

07/07/2006 Case forwarded to Consulate in Montreal (Day 293)

08/11/2006 INTERVIEW! VISA APPROVED!

08/14/2006 Picked up visa and crossed the border.

08/25/2006 SS card arrives in the mail

09/07/2006 GC arrives in the mail.

K-3

02/01/2006 Mailed I-129F

02/07/2006 NOA1

04/14/2006 I-129F is approved!

04/24/2006 NVC forwards the application to the consulate in Montreal

05/01/2006 Packet 3 is received from consulate & is sent of 3 days later

07/07/2006 Medical

08/08/2006 INTERVIEW- cancelled bec. of CR-1

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However, once the consulate gets the file for the I-130 from the NVC they will cancel processing for the K-3 and continue only with the CR-1.

Due to both being approved so close togerher and the amount of time it takes Cd. Juarez to process both K-3's and CR-1's, my guess is that you will be doing a CR-1 regardless.

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Hello! Miriam ii would do both proccess at the same time and maybe the K3 will be faster for you, im in the same case as you are and i made by accident just the CR1 instead of doing both. Mexicans timelines doing so much time and delay on the CR1 but of course for everyone works different, check my timeline and you will get an idea for Mexico , also i keep in touch with a american /mexican couple that are in this proccess since long time ago and their experience is that they have the case complete since 23th January and till now they keep waiting for the interview day so for Mexican consulate is taking about 9 to 11 months to get the interview :crying: , but who know maybe you can get lucky again as you did with the first part of the proccess, so i were you i would think about it an i would do both :thumbs:

Congratulations! and i hope i helped you ! :)

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Greg&Miriam   0

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Hey!

Thank you very much to all of you :D

I already told my husband all your opinions and we are going to follow your advices. It´s so nice to talk to people in your same situation, specially when you lost the faith and felt like you are all by yourself.

I wish the best for all of you!! Hope we could meet our husbands, wifes and fiance´s as soon as possible!!

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