Which is better a CR1 or a K1 visa?

[rosscrudos 0]

Hi everyone,

OK a bit of background:

I am from the U.K but now live in Australia, I started dating my girlfriend (who is a US citizen) 2 years ago, and we have lived together in Austrlia for a year and a half. Next year (once my girlfriend finishes her uni course) we want to move to the US together.

I have been trying to do some research but am finding it hard!

Would it be easier for us just to get married in Australia and apply for the CR1 visa or go for the K1 fiance visa?

My main worry is this, we want to move to the US in Feb of 2013, and we ideally would like to get married in the US, so that friends and family could come, but what happens if we apply for a K1 too early and it expires before Feb 2013, or we apply too late and it isn't granted in time! The process time seems to be 3 - 8 months which makes it very hard.

Any advice would be much appreciated,

thanks in advance,

Ross

[Austramerican 83]

Well you can always get married on paper with a small wedding and then have the ceremony and reception once in the US. Me and my fiance are going to have to do that since depending on when he gets here, our target wedding date will be more than 3 months after point of entry, so we plan to just get married once he arrives in the us on paper, and then start the whole AOS process, while we finish planning for our big ceremony/reception with family and friends That way stuff is getting done and we can have the wedding we want too

[Inky 1,111]

comparison charts. Read up and then choose. http://www.visajourney.com/content/compare