Any of you filed for DCF through USCIS Frankfurt

[cassecouilles 3]

My fiance and I are getting a lot of mixed messages.

We've started the K1 process in Oct but seem to be running into some problems already.

Small background: my fiance is a US marine and we met when he was stationed here for a year and a half. He's in the MSG program, currently stationed in Switzerland, and cannot legally get married until May 2013. That is why we started the K1 process now, thinking we'd get the paperwork done by then so that by the time he goes back to the fleet in the states, I can travel with him.

Now this Vice-Consul in Brussels tells me we should wait until May, get married here and then file file for DCF anf have my CR1 Visa expedited through the USCIS in Frankfurt. He tells me I would get all the paperwork in order in approximately 6 weeks at the most. I'd actually like the CR1 visa better because the way I understand it, I could get a job immediately after going to the states and I would receive my greencard upon arrival. The Vice-Consul says we would probably get approved because once my fiance returns to the fleet he could get deployed very soon. I hope not though. We're just afraid that if we go ahead and try this and it gets refused, it'd be an additional 10 something months going through the normal CR1 process. We don't want that to happen because we have a little boy together, and he's missing out on so much already.

Whatever we do, we'd like to be together by summer next year.

Any thoughts on what would be our best bet? I'm not even sure DCF will be that easy, though the consul seems to think so. Thanks!

Kimberly

[Brokenness 3]

I am currently going through the process now and just received the approved i-130.

When you apply through the infopass appointment process, you are handed a broschure with the expected timelines. The approval for the i-130 petition can take up to 90 days. ( mine was within 35 days) .

Once that is approved you are requsted to submit the ds230 form and other documents. This can then take a few weeks to review and then you can have an interview scheduled within a few weeks of that time.

The expected time is about six months after the first petition, but it may be much faster. My recommendation is to hope for three months and expect six months and everything will run smoothly.

Edited November 11, 2012 by Brokenness

[Brokenness 3]

The only concern i have is that he is not stationed in Germany. I do not know about the military, but as a civilian, i could only do this process in Frankfurt since i live in Germany. I was informed by an attorney, that if i was living in France i would not be able to do a direct filing, since there is no USCIS in France, and therefore would have to apply through the lockbox which would be about a year in the complete process. I would suggest writing the us consulate in Germany and ask them if your husband could petition there as he is the petitioner.