I-130 August 2017 Filer

[Crazy Cat 41,886]

5 minutes ago, patienceiskey said:

I feel like I made a big mistake by choosing to marry my wife in her home country.  If I had only known that fiance visas are processed and completed roughly half a year sooner than CR1....

 

Oh WELL!

You are mistaken.  K-1 cases require almost as much time as CR-1 caes.

[patienceiskey 15]

13 minutes ago, missileman said:

You are mistaken.  K-1 cases require almost as much time as CR-1 caes.

I thought the NVC stage for a K1 visa is 1 month or less. Versus what’s looking like 3-4 months in NVC for CR1.

 

 

 

 

[Crazy Cat 41,886]

29 minutes ago, patienceiskey said:

I thought the NVC stage for a K1 visa is 1 month or less. Versus what’s looking like 3-4 months in NVC for CR1.

While the NVC time for a K-1 might be shorter, the difference in total processing time is not 6 months on average.  Besides, considering all aspets, the CR-1 is far superior, imo.

 

K-1

    More expensive than CR-1

    Requires Adjustment of Status after marriage (expensive and requires a lot of paperwork)

    Spouse can not leave the US until she receives approved Advance Parole (approx 3-4 months)

    Spouse can not work until she receives EAD (approx 3-4 months)

    some people have had problems with driver licenses, Social Security cards, leases, bank account during this period .

    Spouse will not receive Green Card for many months after Adjustment of Status is filed.

CR-1

    Less expensive than K-1

    No AOS required.

    Spouse can immediately travel outside the US

    Spouse can start work if desired

    Spouse receives Social Security Card and Green Card withing 2 or 3 weeks after entering the US

    Spouse  has legal permanent Resident status IMMEDIATELY upon entry to US.

 

All-in-all, the CR-1 is superior to the K-1 imo.

[Keki915 18]

11 hours ago, missileman said:

While the NVC time for a K-1 might be shorter, the difference in total processing time is not 6 months on average.  Besides, considering all aspets, the CR-1 is far superior, imo.

 

K-1

    More expensive than CR-1

    Requires Adjustment of Status after marriage (expensive and requires a lot of paperwork)

    Spouse can not leave the US until she receives approved Advance Parole (approx 3-4 months)

    Spouse can not work until she receives EAD (approx 3-4 months)

    some people have had problems with driver licenses, Social Security cards, leases, bank account during this period .

    Spouse will not receive Green Card for many months after Adjustment of Status is filed.

CR-1

    Less expensive than K-1

    No AOS required.

    Spouse can immediately travel outside the US

    Spouse can start work if desired

    Spouse receives Social Security Card and Green Card withing 2 or 3 weeks after entering the US

    Spouse  has legal permanent Resident status IMMEDIATELY upon entry to US.

 

All-in-all, the CR-1 is superior to the K-1 imo.

You also will need to do adjustment of status for marriages under 2 years 

[Crazy Cat 41,886]

8 hours ago, Keki915 said:

You also will need to do adjustment of status for marriages under 2 years 

No, not true..Adjustment of Status applies only to K-1 marriages, not CR-1 marriages...maybe you mean Removal of Conditions......which can apply to either K-1 or CR-1 marriages.

[Jhonny 472]

United States transferred from April 1 the Immigrant Visas Process to CUBANS from Colombia consulate to Guyana!

Such a great news to me, I live in Bogota and here, processing the Colombian, Aruba and Cuba immigrant visas, my interview date will be way way back, and now everything is better,and also Cubans doesn´t need Visas to go to Guyana! The best for all!

Link to the great news:

https://demerarawaves.com/2018/03/30/us-shifts-processing-of-immigration-of-cubans-to-embassy-in-guyana/

@Dagar this interests you! It´s easier to your husband to go to Guyana that sleep outside the Colombian Embassy in Havana! Right!

Edited March 30, 2018 by Jhonny

[Dagar 10]

2 hours ago, Jhonny said:

United States transferred from April 1 the Immigrant Visas Process to CUBANS from Colombia consulate to Guyana!

Such a great news to me, I live in Bogota and here, processing the Colombian, Aruba and Cuba immigrant visas, my interview date will be way way back, and now everything is better,and also Cubans doesn´t need Visas to go to Guyana! The best for all!

Link to the great news:

https://demerarawaves.com/2018/03/30/us-shifts-processing-of-immigration-of-cubans-to-embassy-in-guyana/

@Dagar this interests you! It´s easier to your husband to go to Guyana that sleep outside the Colombian Embassy in Havana! Right!

I think its good news too. We have to wait for more details. Colombian embassy has more experience processing high volume of visas. Let's see what happen.

[Jhonny 472]

12 minutes ago, Dagar said:

I think its good news too. We have to wait for more details. Colombian embassy has more experience processing high volume of visas. Let's see what happen.

They will start to schedule interviews on June, the transference is effective from April 1.

 

[Road210 4]

I checked my case status and I saw this... I don’t really sure if I have to be worry about it?

[crissyfisher 98]

Jus giving u guys a update for who waiting on case#..Just received my case # and invoice #

nvc receive case feb 23

[Dagar 10]

1 hour ago, crissyfisher said:

Jus giving u guys a update for who waiting on case#..Just received my case # and invoice #

nvc receive case feb 23

I saw your time line. You got i130 approval on February and 13 days after received the case number... Nice!

[Jhonny 472]

3 hours ago, Road210 said:

I checked my case status and I saw this... I don’t really sure if I have to be worry about it?

To me, looks like you are about to receive great news from them, NOA2 if everything is correct!

Sounds like good news to me!

Edited March 31, 2018 by Jhonny

[Road210 4]

28 minutes ago, Jhonny said:

To me, looks like you are about to receive great news from them, NOA2 if everything is correct!

Sounds like good news to me!

I hope I can get my NOA2 soon! 

[Jer1234 65]

11 hours ago, crissyfisher said:

Jus giving u guys a update for who waiting on case#..Just received my case # and invoice #

nvc receive case feb 23

Wow congrats that's great:) .I assume u got a mailed welcome letter with the case number ? And instructions to make payments..case was approved on march 13,2018..my wife will call nvc next week..or should I emailed them? How long did it take before hearing from nvc?because on the approval letter were seeing were it says we should wait 30 days before contacting them .. Sorry for all d questions lol.gm:)

Edited March 31, 2018 by Jer1234

[ms_bobdog 501]

10 hours ago, Dagar said:

I saw your time line. You got i130 approval on February and 13 days after received the case number... Nice!

Actually no. NVC received doesn't mean case number. It is just the date that NVC tells us they got our file. I don't think anyone is getting case number sooner than 5 weeks. I am at the 5 week mark, same date as @crissyfisher but I have no case number yet.