Paper work timing between US and Foreign Governments

[Ethan G 2]

What happens if the I-129F form is processed and ready before the beneficiary's in-country documentation for things like getting a passport? Can the K-1 visa process be slowed down or paused at any stage to account for delays in the foreign country's processing?

 

My fiance and 2 of her children have passports, but we're still waiting on the third child's passport. And the USCIS may send me an RFE for the death certificate of her previous partner, which we are still waiting on from the foreign gov't. I'm just curious how much flexibility there is or if special requests/exemptions can be made to pause so you don't have to restart the whole process due to something expiring on the US side while we're waiting on the foreign gov't slow processing.

[Boiler 46,569]

You can slow things down but it would be very unusual for things like Passports to take anything like as long as a K application.