Applying for visiting visa(B1) after filing CR-1

[Argo 2]

Hi,

I do not have B1 visa yet. I have initiated with CR1 process 2 weeks before. I am waiting for NOA1 to apply for visiting visa. Will this work. I can cring letter from my employee and NOA1 for the B1 visa interview. But my colleagues say that on stating my purpose itself (to visit my husband), I will rejected. Is this true. Can somebody share their opinion here.

Also how do we find out which service centre does our CR application goes to?

Thanks

[Ryan H 3,812]

***Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to Tourist Visas forum; topic is primarily about obtaining a tourist visa.***

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Hi,

I do not have B1 visa yet. I have initiated with CR1 process 2 weeks before. I am waiting for NOA1 to apply for visiting visa. Will this work. I can cring letter from my employee and NOA1 for the B1 visa interview. But my colleagues say that on stating my purpose itself (to visit my husband), I will rejected. Is this true. Can somebody share their opinion here.

Also how do we find out which service centre does our CR application goes to?

Thanks

Having a US Citizen spouse essentially supersedes any ties you may have to your own country which makes the chances of having a tourist visa application approved less than 50%.

The service center that the petition your spouse filed (the actual visa application comes later) can be determined by the first 3 letters on the NOA1 once you receive it (WAC is California, EAC is Vermont, LIN is Nebraska, SRC is Texas)

Edited September 14, 2015 by Ryan H

[Gorkhali 214]

Very rare chance of getting approval .. As u are already on immigrant visa process

[Jo Së 200]

Unless you are applying to travel for business it will be a B2 visitor visa, I guess they are combined.

You will have to show very strong social and economic ties to your country, otherwise your chances are slim.

[Argo 2]

Apart from employment letter, what else will qualify as strong ties towards home country?

[Gorkhali 214]

argo

Honestly they will deny you any non immigrant visa as you are in system. Even when you show the strongest ties to home country because your partner is american national.

Seen many cases here. Few months back a fellow VJer whose husband (US Citizen) died in motorbike accident. She tried so much to get visitor visa to be present at funeral but they denied her too. That was so heart breaking incident.

You can try your luck .. But dont be hopeful.

[AB loves AG 54]

What country are you in?

[Argo 2]

India.

I was just hoping if we could have our first xmas together

[Jawaree 717]

You can try but I doubt it'll fly, spend the money on a ticket for him to visit

[HFM181818 750]

The challenge will be to convince the CO that you have MORE reasons to return to India than remain in the US with your USC spouse....and unless you are, say, the Prime Minister of that country, it would be hard to imagine what other professional reasons you might have...far too many people, not only from India, have decided to stay put in the US and finish the AOS process with their USC spouse, no matter what they told the CO were the alleged reasons that would motivate them to do otherwise. It will not do any good to try and use the 'oh, but my elderly parents need my care' excuse - because sooner or later, you would be abandoning them anyway, and if they can survive during your Xmas vacation (or if another relative would be caring for them), then why would you need to return? Same for 'I need to go back to pack my bags' or 'attend this or that meeting'....if you put your reasons for staying alongside your reasons for returning, having a USC spouse represents about a 99% strong tie to the US, while whatever job or educational reasons for returning typically add up to about 3%....how will you attempt to balance this out?

While you may think it 'unfair' that your application be denied, thanks to the thousands of people who have changed their minds (a process that occurs about 30 seconds after claiming their luggage!), the CO's job is to determine your credibility and assess the reasons for staying or returning (and they cannot help but be influenced to a large degree by those who have gone [and not returned!] before you)....why? Because it's very likely that they gave similar reasons for returning that you will, and since those reasons were not sufficiently strong enough to have brought them back, why will you do anything different? BTW, notarized letters from your boss proclaiming that your presence at some future meeting or training is 'critical' following your Xmas vacation are worth absolutely nothing because whatever might be written in such a letter is totally non-enforceable....of course, you might be fortunate...and the cost of trying is around $160.

Edited September 14, 2015 by HFM181818

[Argo 2]

Thank you so much for all your response. It has been very informative. Probably my last question around this would be - Doesn't the fact that I am already under CR1 process increase my chances than decrease. Because I am following this process, I will have to return to India anyway to further proceed(interview and medical). Also AoS will not be possible for me as I have anyway initiated CR1, isn't it?

[Gorkhali 214]

In every post people replied u

Ur chance of visitor non immigrant visa for u is very low as u r in immigrant visa

[KierenHby 899]

Thank you so much for all your response. It has been very informative. Probably my last question around this would be - Doesn't the fact that I am already under CR1 process increase my chances than decrease. No; how so? Because I am following this process, I will have to return to India anyway to further proceed(interview and medical). Anyone can do that in the US too Also AoS will not be possible for me as I have anyway initiated CR1, isn't it? Are you asking whether or not AOS on a CR1 is possible in a roundabout way? If so, I'll take the bait and say plenty of folks have AOS-ed from all types of visa.

[Zats&Bryan 30]

Trust us. Many of us tried and got denied because, as stated before, there is a very strong reason why you would just stay. They will see you in the system and you will get denied. I was told I could not have both. Sorry to crush your hopes but no. The chances of getting a tourist while waiting on a spousal one are none.

[KierenHby 899]

India.

I was just hoping if we could have our first xmas together

Don't mind me saying, but a lot of India visitors change minds at baggage claim; next thing, they're adjusting. You can spend the $160 and find out.

A lot of newly-married couples have had to spend xmas, diwali, bdays, anniversaries, baby births away from their spouses for about a year.