Strange Development (Advise)...........

[NikLR 13,227]

FYI anyone can try for a K3. It's best if you have children to also file the I-130 for them at the same time and not depend on the k3 visa. As I've stated before obsolete means: no longer produced or used; out of date. It's latin base means, grown old, fall into disuse, worn out. All definitions are all applicable. In this case .33% of the visas granted to spouses in 2012 are K3 visas. No one here is saying you cannot try. We're trying to inform you that the percentage given out is very very low and not to get your hopes up.

On that note, all things change and it's possible to get one and you never know unless you try.

No, I can do that myself.... I just need him for our special circumstance. Once my husband is here, We're good. We will have a year and 9 months to put aside the adjustment fee.

During which time your husband will not be able to work.

[christeen 966]

I think the use of the term obsolete is overstating the situation... Technically, it is not obsolete, but it is functionally irrelevant... Meaning that, for most couples and when the system is functioning normally, there is not practical advantage to the K3...

Now that being said, there is currently a longer than usual (using the historic processing times from the past 7 years) wait time for processing the CR1/i130 thus, at this point there MIGHT be an advantage with a K3 where it is processed before the CR1 and thus has the possibility to reach the NBC/Embassy before the i130 and not be administratively closed...

For many, getting their loved ones over quicker outweighs the inferiority of the K3 and could possibly be a better route. Given that it is free for couples who have filed the I130, I say why not give it a shot? Not gonna hurt... But hopefully the CR1 processing will soon speed up and the k3 option will once again be pushed to the forgotten visa closet again...