Active Duty Military Spouse

[MSH- 0]

 

I'm a spouse of an US military( Active Duty). 

My husband first applied December 2020, however it was declined. he've reapplied this February but it has not been approved yet.

 

My husband (AD) moved to the state 3 day ofter marriage due to PCS order 2020 August. I'm in a long-distance married for about 1year now.

I scheduled consult with legal officer on base September 2.

 

I'd like to know how to expedited processing with USCIS. or Is it faster we apply K-3 visa ?

I appreciate it if you would give me some advice.

[HRQX 4,145]

7 minutes ago, MSH- said:

or Is it faster we apply K-3 visa ?

Filing I-129F for K-3 attempt is free (i.e. the filing fee is $0) but note that there have been zero K-3 visas issued since 03/20/2020: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/nonimmigrant-visa-statistics/monthly-nonimmigrant-visa-issuances.html

[MSH- 0]

27 minutes ago, HRQX said:

Filing I-129F for K-3 attempt is free (i.e. the filing fee is $0) but note that there have been zero K-3 visas issued since 03/20/2020: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/nonimmigrant-visa-statistics/monthly-nonimmigrant-visa-issuances.html

 

Thank you for your quick reply!

Spouse of Active Duty is can not reason for request expedite process?

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[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

On 8/21/2021 at 12:03 AM, MSH- said:

 

Thank you for your quick reply!

Spouse of Active Duty is can not reason for request expedite process?

No. 

You can try to expedite if he has a deployment upcoming or new orders for getting stationed overseas but other than that there's no reason to expedite.

[Rexxx 40]

I am sorry to hear this. why was the first application got declined?

 

I married my Japanese wife 1 day before I left Japan, once I arrived on my new station, I amended my order to put her on my order. Tthen applied for CR-1 visa while I'm back in the states, not only I got all my application expedited, all visa fees as also reimbursed.

 

See my previous posts about expedition. Hope that may help.  Ask your husband get in touch with USCIS for expedite, then ask U.S. Embassy Tokyo see if they can expedite as well.

Edited August 31, 2021 by Rexxx

[MSH- 0]

13 hours ago, Rexxx said:

I am sorry to hear this. why was the first application got declined?

 

I married my Japanese wife 1 day before I left Japan, once I arrived on my new station, I amended my order to put her on my order. Tthen applied for CR-1 visa while I'm back in the states, not only I got all my application expedited, all visa fees as also reimbursed.

 

See my previous posts about expedition. Hope that may help.  Ask your husband get in touch with USCIS for expedite, then ask U.S. Embassy Tokyo see if they can expedite as well.

Thank you for your response.

 

My husband’s credit card details has been stolen, after he applied I-130. He changed new card and tried call USCIS to change new credit card number.

But they told my husband it’s still not start process so they couldn’t find my I-130 documents.  After 2 months later USCIS send back all documents to him. 

 

he has new PCS order in next August,  we’re consult with legal officer now. 

[Waitingtoexhale12 7]

23 hours ago, Rexxx said:

I am sorry to hear this. why was the first application got declined?

 

I married my Japanese wife 1 day before I left Japan, once I arrived on my new station, I amended my order to put her on my order. Tthen applied for CR-1 visa while I'm back in the states, not only I got all my application expedited, all visa fees as also reimbursed.

 

See my previous posts about expedition. Hope that may help.  Ask your husband get in touch with USCIS for expedite, then ask U.S. Embassy Tokyo see if they can expedite as well.

Curious to know how you got your fees reimbursed? My husband is active duty stationed in the states and I am currently abroad. Trying to get over there asap. 

[Rexxx 40]

16 minutes ago, Waitingtoexhale12 said:

Curious to know how you got your fees reimbursed? My husband is active duty stationed in the states and I am currently abroad. Trying to get over there asap. 

 

Military will reimburse all visa fees for spouse if that's REQUIRED to PCS to stateside. 

 

For me, I was stationed in Japan, we got married there.  I can't bring my wife over to US without valid visa,  a visa is required in this case. Once she arrived to my duty station, I simply just go to finance and fill her PCS travel voucher, including all visa fees and travel costs.

[Rexxx 40]

11 hours ago, MSH- said:

Thank you for your response.

 

My husband’s credit card details has been stolen, after he applied I-130. He changed new card and tried call USCIS to change new credit card number.

But they told my husband it’s still not start process so they couldn’t find my I-130 documents.  After 2 months later USCIS send back all documents to him. 

 

he has new PCS order in next August,  we’re consult with legal officer now. 

that's really really unfortunate.

 

Hope thing will go smoother this time.  I assume you are on his PCS order when he left last year? Don't forget to call USCIS to expedite your case once they received it and assigned case number.  and please do keep all the receipt (medical exams/shots, visa fees, application fee etc)  so you can fill travel voucher when everything's done, at least you will get some money back.

[Ed&Midori1031 330]

Only if he were to be stationed overseas or doing an upcoming deployment, will he be approved for expedite.