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Hello everyone, I’m a Moroccan married to US wife and already we did apply for a K3 visa on early November 2017 that I can join my wife, we discovered on late November that she is pregnant and she is now 3 months of pregnancy. I’m asking if there is any exception or a path we should follow in order to faster the process as my wife now getting enable to work and needs my support physically and financially. 

 

All your responses & tips are appreciated! 

Youness.

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No there is no expedite or special pregnancy visa.  

 

Also k3 is no longer processed so I guess you applied for cr1. 

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29.11.2013 - NoA1

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01.04.2014 - Interview. 

AoS

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09.2015 - Green Card received.  

RoC

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1 minute ago, Benaflic said:

Hello everyone, I’m a Moroccan married to US wife and already we did apply for a K3 visa on early November 2017 that I can join my wife, we discovered on late November that she is pregnant and she is now 3 months of pregnancy. I’m asking if there is any exception or a path we should follow in order to faster the process as my wife no getting enable to work and needs my support physically and financially. 

 

All your our responses are appreciated! 

Youness.

There is no exception for pregnancy.  But you can try.  Your K-3 will likely be converted to a CR-1, by the way.

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2 minutes ago, Roel said:

No there is no expedite or special pregnancy visa.  

 

Also k3 is no longer processed so I guess you applied for cr1. 

The K3 is still process but in VERY LIMITED amounts. I looked at it about a month ago for last year and there was only 120 of them given out for the whole world.

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Nope, that won’t work. It will be CR/IR and that takes 12-14 months these days. 

Unless you already have a tourist visa, high probability you won’t be in the States for birth. 

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4 minutes ago, Benaflic said:

Hello everyone, I’m a Moroccan married to US wife and already we did apply for a K3 visa on early November 2017 that I can join my wife, we discovered on late November that she is pregnant and she is now 3 months of pregnancy. I’m asking if there is any exception or a path we should follow in order to faster the process as my wife now getting enable to work and needs my support physically and financially. 

 

All your responses & tips are appreciated! 

Youness.

No exceptions to this rule at all. Your K3 will be more than likely converted to the CR1 and be processed in about 12 months hopefully from November 2017. The best you can hope for is a tourist visa to in order to be there for the birth of your child.

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As others have already stated, there is no expedite for pregnancy. You're looking at a 12-14 month wait for the CR1 visa to process (since as already stated, most K3s are converted to this).

 

You can try to apply for a tourist visa, but unless you have very strong ties to Morocco (stable job, owning property, ect), it will be difficult to convince the CO that you will return to Morocco, especially if you have a USC wife and child. But it's still worth applying for it if you are determined. 

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4 minutes ago, Benaflic said:

OMG! They could convert K3 you said to CR1 ??? I won’t tell her that though. I should try a tourist visa to assist her during the birth which will be for July. Otherwise you don’t think they may contact me before the birth if I try to let them know ? 

The chances of you being the US for the birth are virtually zero.  If your wife needs help, perhaps you could wire her money to support her.  

"The US immigration process requires a great deal of knowledge, planning, time, patience, and a significant amount of money.  It is quite a journey!"

- Some old child of the 50's & 60's on his laptop 

 

Senior Master Sergeant, US Air Force- Retired (after 20+ years)- Missile Systems Maintenance & Titan 2 ICBM Launch Crew Duty (200+ Alert tours)

Registered Nurse- Retired- I practiced in the areas of Labor & Delivery, Home Health, Adolescent Psych, & Adult Psych.

IT Professional- Retired- Web Site Design, Hardware Maintenance, Compound Pharmacy Software Trainer, On-site go live support, Database Manager, App Designer.

______________________________________

In summary, it took 13 months for approval of the CR-1.  It took 44 months for approval of the I-751.  It took 4 months for approval of the N-400.   It took 172 days from N-400 application to Oath Ceremony.   It took 6 weeks for Passport, then 7 additional weeks for return of wife's Naturalization Certificate.. 
 

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