Visa Advice CR1/Tourist VISA conflict

[dakroww 1]

I have been married to a Colombia woman for over ten years. We lived together in Colombia for four years and I am legally married to her in Colombia. We started the CR1 visa process many years ago, but due to some traumatic life events in life we allowed it to lapse. She is also now has a United States tourist VISA. She is going to come stay with me for awhile in March and I want to know what steps I should take in regards to beginning the VISA process again in this scenario. If I start the CR1 process now, will they revoke her tourist VISA? I am not exactly sure how that works. I know since we are legally married in Colombia, the VISA application has to be submitted there, but will that have any effect on her tourist VISA? I know there is more than one way to go through process.

Edited October 4, 2022 by dakroww

[Timona 4,208]

I think her I-130 is still active..lemme call experts @Crazy Cat

 

If you end up filing a new I-130, she can visit with her B-2.

[PGA 259]

34 minutes ago, dakroww said:

I have been married to a Colombia woman for over ten years. We lived together in Colombia for four years and I am legally married to her in Colombia. We started the CR1 visa process many years ago, but due to some traumatic life events in life we allowed it to lapse. She is also now has a United States tourist VISA. She is going to come stay with me for awhile in March and I want to know what steps I should take in regards to beginning the VISA process again in this scenario. If I start the CR1 process now, will they revoke her tourist VISA? I am not exactly sure how that works. I know since we are legally married in Colombia, the VISA application has to be submitted there, but will that have any effect on her tourist VISA? I know there is more than one way to go through process.

The tourist visa shouldn't be affected until the interview. 

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

So back then you received the approval for the I-130 petition but just never finished the NVC stage? 

Her tourist visa won't get revoked by starting the immigration visa process. 

Where you got married has nothing to do with where you file the petition. The I-130 can be done online or if you file paper it will get send to an address inside mainland US. But you shouldn't have to start completely from scratch. I-130 don't expire and you should be able to have USCIS retrieve your file from storage and pick up where you left.

[dakroww 1]

1 hour ago, Letspaintcookies said:

So back then you received the approval for the I-130 petition but just never finished the NVC stage? 

Her tourist visa won't get revoked by starting the immigration visa process. 

Where you got married has nothing to do with where you file the petition. The I-130 can be done online or if you file paper it will get send to an address inside mainland US. But you shouldn't have to start completely from scratch. I-130 don't expire and you should be able to have USCIS retrieve your file from storage and pick up where you left.

I received an email from the NVC stating  that our documents had been destroyed, because of non-correspondance, so I do believe they were destroyed. So, I do believe we will have to resubmit nw documents unfortunately. 

[powerpuff 6,748]

~~ Topic moved from IR1/CR1 progress reports to Process ~~

[pushbrk 13,116]

19 hours ago, dakroww said:

I received an email from the NVC stating  that our documents had been destroyed, because of non-correspondance, so I do believe they were destroyed. So, I do believe we will have to resubmit nw documents unfortunately. 

New documents to NVC, yes.  New I-130 to USCIS, probably not but it might be faster to start over than to retrieve the old file.  Your choice, really.