cr instead of ir

[krasavishna 0]

I have been married to my husband for more than 2 years. However, when we started the papework, it was just a year. When I went to the interview, we have been married for 2 years and 3 months. I specifically asked the officer, what type of visa I would get, SHe said that I would get IR-1. I got my visa today and it says cr-1.

What to do now?

If i do end up going on CR-1, when should I start removing condition? Right after I arrive or only when I am in US for 1 year and 9 months.

Please help, I am sooo confused now!!!

Edited June 9, 2007 by krasavishna

[YuAndDan 153]

Many who have a CR-1 visa when entering the country they show the officer at POE that have been married more than 2 years, the POE officer will code the system to generate a 10 year permanent residence card.

Some if very close to 2 year wedding anniversary before entry to the USA delay entering until after their second wedding anniversary just to have the POE officer to code for a 10 year card.

If generates a conditional one it will be valid for 2 years, and filing to remove the conditions would be allowed 90 days before the 2 year expiration of the card (1 year 9 months).

[krasavishna 0]

Thank you!

Are there people on tis forum, that have been in the same situation? Please tell me about your experience!!!

[rika60607 215]

Hope this link works, this is someone who reported similar situation.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=71748

Rika

Thank you!

Are there people on tis forum, that have been in the same situation? Please tell me about your experience!!!

[krasavishna 0]

Hope this link works, this is someone who reported similar situation.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=71748

Rika

Thank you!

Are there people on tis forum, that have been in the same situation? Please tell me about your experience!!!

the link works, but this person did not answer my message. Thank you for trying to help anyway!

[hollywood79 0]

Hi there!!

Yes, I am in the same situation you are!! We had been married more than 2 years at our interview. And we were confirmed this with the Vice Consul who interviewed me. She definitely said we qualified for an IR1 because we had been married more than 2 years. HOWEVER, when I received my passport last week it said CR1. We had no time to change it.

SO we decided to enter the US through San Fransisco this morning and just show the Customs Officer our marriage certificate. He didn't want to look at it and said if it was a clerical error we had to contact our local immigration office and change it through them because it was a matter for the Department of State. He said he could not change what the Sydney Consulate had written. Boy were we pissed off!! We also noticed on the front of my brown envelope my husband's mailing address was wrong and it was written on all the forms we submitted throughout this whole process! That mistake the customs officer could change. But right now I am so pissed with the Sydney Consulate and their silly little clerical errors and their non US citizens employees who don't know much and tried to recommend refusing my visa because of an assumption she made!! Will be writing them a letter of complaint!!!

So, we wil now be going to our local USCIS office this week and solving this problem. Don't enter through SFO because of my experience!! Do a search and see which airports have changed it for others in the same situation as us! Also, the customs officer never gave me an expiry date, just an entry date. This confused my husband and kept asking for one but the officer just said all customs officers will know the expiry date! But I would like to know the date too!!

goodluck!!

[pushbrk 12,910]

Hi there!!

Yes, I am in the same situation you are!! We had been married more than 2 years at our interview. And we were confirmed this with the Vice Consul who interviewed me. She definitely said we qualified for an IR1 because we had been married more than 2 years. HOWEVER, when I received my passport last week it said CR1. We had no time to change it.

SO we decided to enter the US through San Fransisco this morning and just show the Customs Officer our marriage certificate. He didn't want to look at it and said if it was a clerical error we had to contact our local immigration office and change it through them because it was a matter for the Department of State. He said he could not change what the Sydney Consulate had written. Boy were we pissed off!! We also noticed on the front of my brown envelope my husband's mailing address was wrong and it was written on all the forms we submitted throughout this whole process! That mistake the customs officer could change. But right now I am so pissed with the Sydney Consulate and their silly little clerical errors and their non US citizens employees who don't know much and tried to recommend refusing my visa because of an assumption she made!! Will be writing them a letter of complaint!!!

So, we wil now be going to our local USCIS office this week and solving this problem. Don't enter through SFO because of my experience!! Do a search and see which airports have changed it for others in the same situation as us! Also, the customs officer never gave me an expiry date, just an entry date. This confused my husband and kept asking for one but the officer just said all customs officers will know the expiry date! But I would like to know the date too!!

goodluck!!

It was a different issue but the immigration official at LAX royally screwed up my wife and daughter's passports as well as letting them keep the sealed envelope. I made an infopass appointment, where they took the envelope and sent it to the local Customs and Immigration manager. He was out of town at the time, but I phoned him directly upon his return, sent him the passports and he straitened everything out.

I take it your main issue is with USCIS and getting the correct green card but you may also have a passport issue. I doubt you need an exit date when you enter with a CR1 visa. You do with K3. If you think something is not right, you can contact your most local POE to get help resolving it.

[krasavishna 0]

Unfortunately,

I enter US through San-Fransisco.... tickets have been bought:(

[krasavishna 0]

Unfortunately,

I enter US through San-Fransisco.... tickets have been bought:(

Hollywood,

please let me know if you are able to fix the mistake!! I would really appreciate your help!

[krasavishna 0]

http://www.govorimpro.us/forum/showthread....61403#post61403

read the instruction that were submitted by one of the participant

[hollywood79 0]

It shame you already bought your tickets to SFO! Be optimistic you may get lucky and have a Officer you will change it for you!

I will take Pushbrk's advice and make an infopass appointment hopefully for this week The Officer said we shouldn't have a proble getting an IR1 as long as we can prove our marriage is over 2 yrs old. So I'm not too concerned. It's just a hassle for my husband to take an afternoon off work so we can drive an hour to prove our case. But at least it should get fixed! I will definitely keep you updated, as I can understand your stress!!

Also, I tried looking at the link you posted. But it is in Russian and I do not understand Russian. Would like to, it is a beautiful language but some people say it very difficult to learn.

[hollywood79 0]

It shame you already bought your tickets to SFO! Be optimistic you may get lucky and have a Officer you will change it for you!

I will take Pushbrk's advice and make an infopass appointment hopefully for this week The Officer said we shouldn't have a proble getting an IR1 as long as we can prove our marriage is over 2 yrs old. So I'm not too concerned. It's just a hassle for my husband to take an afternoon off work so we can drive an hour to prove our case. But at least it should get fixed! I will definitely keep you updated, as I can understand your stress!!

Also, I tried looking at the link you posted. But it is in Russian and I do not understand Russian. Would like to, it is a beautiful language but some people say it very difficult to learn.

Just tried making an appointment. Our nearest office is about an hour's drive. Unfortunately. infopass gave us an appointment in LA, thats 3.5 hours away!! I am so mad right now, I will definitely be contacting the Sydney Consulate and asking why they messed up my visa classification and how could they could get my husband's address wrong when the correct address is written on all the forms they should have looked at and checked!!

I hope you get IR1 at your time of entry into SFO! What a waste of time and money now because of a clerical error!!

[pushbrk 12,910]

It shame you already bought your tickets to SFO! Be optimistic you may get lucky and have a Officer you will change it for you!

I will take Pushbrk's advice and make an infopass appointment hopefully for this week The Officer said we shouldn't have a proble getting an IR1 as long as we can prove our marriage is over 2 yrs old. So I'm not too concerned. It's just a hassle for my husband to take an afternoon off work so we can drive an hour to prove our case. But at least it should get fixed! I will definitely keep you updated, as I can understand your stress!!

Also, I tried looking at the link you posted. But it is in Russian and I do not understand Russian. Would like to, it is a beautiful language but some people say it very difficult to learn.

You don't need an IR1 visa, now. You need a ten year green card. USCIS doesn't issue visas.

[krasavishna 0]

the forum is in Russian, but if you scroll down, there will be a quote for immigration officer's instruction manual or smth. like that IN ENGLISH

And it says that they HAVE to change it to Permanent Resident card!

Anyway,

here is one more link that discusses the same topic

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.visa.us...+IR&rnum=14

and thank you for reporting how it will all work. I will help a lot!

[krasavishna 0]

the forum is in Russian, but if you scroll down, there will be a quote for immigration officer's instruction manual or smth. like that IN ENGLISH

And it says that they HAVE to change it to Permanent Resident card!

Anyway,

here is one more link that discusses the same topic

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.visa.us...+IR&rnum=14

and thank you for reporting how it will all work. It will help a lot!

sorry, messed up the message, for some reason it does not allow me to edit