I-130 Employment History Unemployed-Student

[yebyaew 0]

For the submission of the I-130 will my employment history as an unemployed student affect the outcome of the petition prior to the interview?

So, in my specific situation, I will be applying with the I-130, petitioning for my wife who is from China. I am currently an unemployed student but have multiple people who are willing and fit to be co-sponsors. I will likely be employed within the following month, as well. According to the processing time of the USCIS California Service center, the processing time is approximately 15-19 months for US citizens filing for a spouse. Should I simply submit the completed I-130 form with my unemployed-student status assuming the employment history doesn't matter until the interview just to get it started and in that big queue?  Or is there a higher chance of it being denied? Also is the K-3 something plausible with that lengthened wait for the I-130 or is that wait irrelevant?

Thanks everyone!

[arken 4,197]

Your employment status doesn’t affect the i130 outcome, it only matters once your case goes to NVC. Processing times of  K3 and i-130 for USC spouse are not that far apart, so not sure if K3 makes sense.

[yebyaew 0]

Really? Maybe I don't understand how the processing time works. According to https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times, for the California service center processing the i-129f for a K3 is 5 to 7 months while processing time for the i-130 "U.S citizen petition for spouse" is 15-19 months. So from my thinking they would get to the i-129f before they would get to my i-130 due to the long queue, so in turn they could process the i-129f well ahead of my i-130 and so the i-130 wouldn't override the i-129f petition. Is that wrong? Honestly, I only think that's how that works. I'm not entirely sure.