I-130 September 2018 Filers

[GAMAJM 320]

4 hours ago, ArmyVet said:

I think that your length of marriage may have an impact of the approval timeline. It is much easier to establish a relationship if you have been married for a longer period of time.

 

This is my second time around going through this process and hope to be approved quickly since they have already approved an i130 for my wife in past and I have been married to her for nearly 10 years. We moved to Colombia while I finished my post graduate schooling and now we are headed back home. This time she has to get her citizenship, so we don't ever have to worry about this again lol

I disagree with this suggestion...I met my husband in December 2014 and married in 2018. So that shows a long steady relationship before the marriage. So therefore, we have been together for 4 years, but only married for 6.5 months. It is all probably very random. 

Edited March 13, 2019 by GAMAJM

[Bengoj 133]

1 hour ago, GAMAJM said:

I disagree with this suggestion...I met my husband in December 2014 and married in 2018. So that shows a long steady relationship before the marriage. So therefore, we have been together for 4 years, but only married for 6.5 months. It is all probably very random. 

Yes I don’t think that is the case at all. I really think that they are just choosing cases randomly or however it’s located on their desk. I used to work for the government in dc and we would get our case loads assigned based on the  alphabet of last names, in this case it could be the Pd month is assigned to specific officers. Who knows how these cases are assigned for processing but I don’t think it’s by length of marriage. 

[Allison1128 23]

32 minutes ago, Gojo said:

Yes I don’t think that is the case at all. I really think that they are just choosing cases randomly or however it’s located on their desk. I used to work for the government in dc and we would get our case loads assigned based on the  alphabet of last names, in this case it could be the Pd month is assigned to specific officers. Who knows how these cases are assigned for processing but I don’t think it’s by length of marriage. 

Yea.. so random that one lucky Sep filer got approval when they are processing Aug cases. I wish I was the lucky one lol 

 

but it I guess the longer the marriage is, the less they would doubt the truth of the marriage. Say a couple who got married for 10 years definitely have more evidence to prove their marriage like kids, bills, insurance ... etc. I have none of the above lol 

[ArmyVet 146]

2 hours ago, GAMAJM said:

I disagree with this suggestion...I met my husband in December 2014 and married in 2018. So that shows a long steady relationship before the marriage. So therefore, we have been together for 4 years, but only married for 6.5 months. It is all probably very random. 

I said length of marriage, not relationship. You are still a CR1 category even if you met your husband/wife 20 years ago. I am pretty sure a process like this not random, I work for the federal government and know that something like this has a bureaucratic process (just like everything else).

[John & Rose 7,239]

1 hour ago, Allison1128 said:

Yea.. so random that one lucky Sep filer got approval when they are processing Aug cases. I wish I was the lucky one lol 

 

but it I guess the longer the marriage is, the less they would doubt the truth of the marriage. Say a couple who got married for 10 years definitely have more evidence to prove their marriage like kids, bills, insurance ... etc. I have none of the above lol 

Remember that USCIS only verifies that you are eligible to file.  They do not look at anything else.  The actual visa is approved by Consular Services at the Embassy.  USCIS only approves the petition.  They do not look at any other information.  They don't care how long you were married.  That isn't what they are assigned to do.  That can certainly impact things at the Embassy but not at USCIS.

 

This is my second time around too.  My K-1 took 10 months to NOA2.  We filed in June of 2017.  There were November filers approved before we were.  It is what it is.  It is more random than we want to believe.  I am a CR-1 September filer and we got NOA2 in just 4 months (January).  There is no logical reason why.  We just got lucky.  It will happen for all of us.  Relax and focus on your spouse and the love.  The process $uks but we all know that already.

Edited March 13, 2019 by John & Rose

[ABA17 13]

1 hour ago, John & Rose said:

Remember that USCIS only verifies that you are eligible to file.  They do not look at anything else.  The actual visa is approved by Consular Services at the Embassy.  USCIS only approves the petition.  They do not look at any other information.  They don't care how long you were married.  That isn't what they are assigned to do.  That can certainly impact things at the Embassy but not at USCIS.

 

This is my second time around too.  My K-1 took 10 months to NOA2.  We filed in June of 2017.  There were November filers approved before we were.  It is what it is.  It is more random than we want to believe.  I am a CR-1 September filer and we got NOA2 in just 4 months (January).  There is no logical reason why.  We just got lucky.  It will happen for all of us.  Relax and focus on your spouse and the love.  The process $uks but we all know that already.

hey , i have question ! 

Could you please tell what was your k1 case result ?? i had also gone through k1 but ours case was expired and we recieved termination letter not denied  letter by uscis .just asking !!

 

thank you

[John & Rose 7,239]

2 minutes ago, @ab12 said:

hey , i have question ! 

Could you please tell what was your k1 case result ?? i had also gone through k1 but ours case was expired and we recieved termination letter not denied  letter by uscis .just asking !!

 

thank you

We were denied in AP because of some bad advice.  

[ABA17 13]

Just now, John & Rose said:

We were denied in AP because of some bad advice.  

ohh.... you mean you got notice of deny ??

but we get termination letter bcz they said our case was expired...Is it same thing deny or terninate??

[John & Rose 7,239]

3 minutes ago, @ab12 said:

ohh.... you mean you got notice of deny ??

but we get termination letter bcz they said our case was expired...Is it same thing deny or terninate??

We actually made it through the interview and were congratulated.  They took the passports and said it would be about 10 days before we receive the visas.  A couple days later they returned the passports with the letter of refusal.

[ABA17 13]

12 minutes ago, John & Rose said:

We actually made it through the interview and were congratulated.  They took the passports and said it would be about 10 days before we receive the visas.  A couple days later they returned the passports with the letter of refusal.

does it impacted on your spouse case ?? 

does they asked any questions regarding k1 visa on interview ?? im so worried bcz idk if they send any rfe to us??? Did you guys send a refusal letter with your cr1 file or not ??or did they ask you to send ??

i also went through interview but bcz of few missing documents our time passes and consulate send back our case to uscis and uscis terminate it that it has expired now , reaply it.

Edited March 13, 2019 by @ab12

[Bengoj 133]

13 minutes ago, John & Rose said:

We actually made it through the interview and were congratulated.  They took the passports and said it would be about 10 days before we receive the visas.  A couple days later they returned the passports with the letter of refusal.

I take it that you’re talking about the first time you applied, not this time, right?  Did they ever give you a reason for denial?  

[John & Rose 7,239]

5 minutes ago, Gojo said:

I take it that you’re talking about the first time you applied, not this time, right?  Did they ever give you a reason for denial?  

Yes, this was the K-1 in April of 2018.  We were denied because "petitioner failed to disclose information in the petition".  I was arrested 30 years ago.  The charges were dropped before I got to the police station.  There was no court.  I even expunged the arrest.  I was told by RapidVisa that I should answer "no" to question 4a (have you ever been arrested, cited.....).  They said since it never went to court and there was no fine we should just say it never happened.  I was doubtful but I answered "no".  We were all wrong.  Arrests never go out of the FBI Crime Database so if I answered "yes" we would be together right now.

[John & Rose 7,239]

23 minutes ago, @ab12 said:

does it impacted on your spouse case ?? 

does they asked any questions regarding k1 visa on interview ?? im so worried bcz idk if they send any rfe to us??? Did you guys send a refusal letter with your cr1 file or not ??or did they ask you to send ??

i also went through interview but bcz of few missing documents our time passes and consulate send back our case to uscis and uscis terminate it that it has expired now , reaply it.

No impact at all yet.  Maybe that is why we went quicker in USCIS.  My wife already has an A Number.  We didn't do anything on the I-130 but mention that there was a previous petition.

[Bengoj 133]

1 hour ago, John & Rose said:

Yes, this was the K-1 in April of 2018.  We were denied because "petitioner failed to disclose information in the petition".  I was arrested 30 years ago.  The charges were dropped before I got to the police station.  There was no court.  I even expunged the arrest.  I was told by RapidVisa that I should answer "no" to question 4a (have you ever been arrested, cited.....).  They said since it never went to court and there was no fine we should just say it never happened.  I was doubtful but I answered "no".  We were all wrong.  Arrests never go out of the FBI Crime Database so if I answered "yes" we would be together right now.

Does it ask questions about arrests on i 130?  I don’t recall. 

[John & Rose 7,239]

11 minutes ago, Gojo said:

Does it ask questions about arrests on i 130?  I don’t recall. 

It does ask about previous petitions.