WTF?!

[Yuliya Lipina 64]

Has anybody got this weird feeling that K1 petions are reviewed and approved quicker and with less processing troubles than IR-1/ CR-1? What the hell?! We're legally married and what?! Don't we have a little bit more legal rights to get processed quicker? We're actual families not fiancees!

[christeen 966]

K1 is almost always processed faster than CR1... This is because the CR1 visa results in an automatic green card upon entry, thus criminal and background checks are done prior to entry, whereas, k1 visas require the applicant to file for Adjustment of Status (AOS) after they arrive and marry and these checks are done at that time..

[Yuliya Lipina 64]

K1 is almost always processed faster than CR1... This is because the CR1 visa results in an automatic green card upon entry, thus criminal and background checks are done prior to entry, whereas, k1 visas require the applicant to file for Adjustment of Status (AOS) after they arrive and marry and these checks are done at that time..

Thank you! Now it's at least a bit more understandable.

[Larry&Sam 5]

LMAO.... You would think criminal and background checks would be done the same for anybody entering the US on a visa. Its kind of like spending all the time and money to file for visas, then becoming a flight risk. Got to love the way of thinking.

[NikLR 13,227]

K1 is almost always faster, but it shouldn't be IMHO. I understand the AOS period, but this isn't reuniting family faster.

[shikimo 8]

LMAO.... You would think criminal and background checks would be done the same for anybody entering the US on a visa. Its kind of like spending all the time and money to file for visas, then becoming a flight risk. Got to love the way of thinking.

LOL...that is a funny way to look at it. I can see how they got there, but still.

[pushbrk 12,883]

Some incorrect speculation here. Background checks are done pretty much the same for all petition based visa categories. Since August, lots of fiancee petitions have been approved about four times as fast as spouse petitions. There's no justification for it whatsoever. The explanation has to do with routing to places where the workload is lighter, so the petitions are processed faster. There's no telling how long that will last. USCIS never really explains what they are doing or why, relative to processing times. it's all just rhetoric and excuses.

You file your petition into a black hole and it comes out when it come out. That's the game you play, like it or not. Usually NOT.

[Ketsuban 1,034]

There's currently a backlog of IR/CR-1s. This is because of the influx of DACA paperwork that totally threw USCIS off and made them stop processing I-130s entirely for around 6 months or so, so they could focus entirely on DACA. They continued processing I-129Fs for K-1 visas as normal. In my experience of working in an office under incompetent management, it doesn't surprise me at all. Thankfully, they are at least beginning to work on I-130s now and people who filed at the beginning of 2013 are getting their approvals.

[pushbrk 12,883]

That's a partial explanation for why I-130 petitions have been taking so long but explains nothing about why I-129F petition processing sped up significantly beginning in late summer.

[Ketsuban 1,034]

That's a partial explanation for why I-130 petitions have been taking so long but explains nothing about why I-129F petition processing sped up significantly beginning in late summer.

Maybe to annoy us more who knows?

[nightingalejules 678]

K-1s sped up because they stopped using the K-1 processing people to process DACAs and started using the IR1/CR1 people. K1s were the first group affected by these other applications.

Before that the K1s were extremely slow (just like we are now). We switched places, is all.

[Ketsuban 1,034]

K-1s sped up because they stopped using the K-1 processing people to process DACAs and started using the IR1/CR1 people. K1s were the first group affected by these other applications.

Before that the K1s were extremely slow (just like we are now). We switched places, is all.

Hopefully one day they'll hire a huge bunch of DACA-only people to avoid this kind of fiasco in the future!