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Someone referred me to this site as being a site that could be very helpful. I'm looking for some information or some advice as to what would be the quickest way to bring my fiancee to the US.

Here is my situation. I am in the US military and I met my fiancee in South Korea. She is a citizen of the Phillipines. I have a friend that is currently in the same situation and he chose to submit a fiancee visa through the Vermont Service center and it just got approved after about 3 1/2 months. They are waiting for the interview date. I'm assuming it will probably be around five months before his fiancee receives the visa.

At any rate, I am back in the US now and my fiancee is still in South Korea. My service center is the Texas service center. From the graphs I see, it appears they take longer to process the 1-29F's than the other service centers...is this a true statement? How long can I reasonably expect this process to take if I do everything correctly?

Also, would it be quicker for me to go back to South Korea, get married at the consulate and file the I-130 there at the consulate and then do a I-129F Spouse K-3 visa application? Which process would likely be quicker from start to finish?

Any help would be great. I'm trying to sort this all out and get all the required paperwork and documents needed.

Basically, I'm looking for some advice as to which route to use.

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Someone referred me to this site as being a site that could be very helpful. I'm looking for some information or some advice as to what would be the quickest way to bring my fiancee to the US.

Here is my situation. I am in the US military and I met my fiancee in South Korea. She is a citizen of the Phillipines. I have a friend that is currently in the same situation and he chose to submit a fiancee visa through the Vermont Service center and it just got approved after about 3 1/2 months. They are waiting for the interview date. I'm assuming it will probably be around five months before his fiancee receives the visa.

At any rate, I am back in the US now and my fiancee is still in South Korea. My service center is the Texas service center. From the graphs I see, it appears they take longer to process the 1-29F's than the other service centers...is this a true statement? How long can I reasonably expect this process to take if I do everything correctly?

Also, would it be quicker for me to go back to South Korea, get married at the consulate and file the I-130 there at the consulate and then do a I-129F Spouse K-3 visa application? Which process would likely be quicker from start to finish?

Any help would be great. I'm trying to sort this all out and get all the required paperwork and documents needed.

Basically, I'm looking for some advice as to which route to use.

I think if you can DCF then you should do that!! i.e file I-130 direct to the Embassy/Consulate

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It appears that in the Phillipines, it is determined on a case by case basis whether DCF is an option for a USC residing in the Phillipines. At least that is how I read it. Were I you, I would read all the information at the embassy website and make your decision based on that. Here is the link:

http://philippines.usembassy.gov/

Good luck!!!

[Euro 3]

It appears that in the Phillipines, it is determined on a case by case basis whether DCF is an option for a USC residing in the Phillipines. At least that is how I read it. Were I you, I would read all the information at the embassy website and make your decision based on that. Here is the link:

http://philippines.usembassy.gov/

Good luck!!!

The OP talked of DCF in South Korea

[meddykomp 0]

My apologies, I saw the part about her being a citizen of the phillipines.

[meddykomp 0]

http://seoul.usembassy.gov

It appears that also Korea (both North and South use this one embassy) requires the USC to reside in Korea for DCF.

[mrc 0]

My apologies, I saw the part about her being a citizen of the phillipines.

Yes, she'll be residing in South Korea until it gets all worked out. Thanks for the responses...I'm still trying to decide. The general consensus is that the K-1 is the quicker way to go...a friend of mine had his K-1 (almost the same exact situation as mine) through the Vermont center approved on the 10th of April. He received his submission approval notice on 20 Dec 05. So it was slightly less than four months for him but she still has the interview portion to work out.

I'm leaning towards the K-1 because if I do the K-3 route because there is also a military paper trail I'd have to first complete if I got married at an overseas location.