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A Congressman or Senator's office can make an inquiry on where the case is at but often times the answer is only that it is in administrative processing.

If your husband (US citizen) files for your spouse visa, and you receive it, you can work from day 1 of entering the United States. This is the fastest way for you.

they will keep anything he takes to the interview. Your child together - their birth certificate isn't required, but your husband can take it. Make sure he has your I-864, your tax transcripts, and anything he submitted to the NVC. They will also need an original marriage certificate, and you won't get it back. They often do not look at anything additional. Also, you can just scan/email him the 864 and tax transcripts to print out. I presume he already has the original marriage certificate

Keep in mind that while his income/wages don't matter - the K1 does require the adjustment of status before he would be able to work here - which is also a considerable expense. You might want to consider just getting married and doing the spouse visa as it would allow him to work immediately. If you are concerned about income, it could be stressful waiting 6-12 months after getting married and filing adjustment of status paperwork for him to work whereas with a spouse visa he could work immediately.

The wait for a spouse visa interview in Casablanca is currently about 6 months. We have a FB group for Morocco/US specific issues and there are people who were DQ in April 2024 still waiting for interview.

So you can go live with her while the visa is in process - sure - but keep in mind that you will need to keep your US domicile, and unless you have a US job that will continue upon return to the US, you will need to have a co-sponsor. However, a bigger question for YOU would be - why are you doing the K1 instead of the spouse visa if you have the ability to live there / stay for a longer period? In that situation, you would still need those same things as the K1 but the visa would be much better for your future spouse

well then that's completely different from every other person's case I've heard of in the past 8 years

You don't pick it up at the consulate - you'd pick it up at Aramex. Have you filled out the Aramex required info on their website so they can contact you?

It doesnt look like a wedding photo to me either - I think it should be fine, and, like you said, your fiancé is wearing jeans and a white t-shirt - so try not to overthink (easier said than done I know!)

My husband is from Morocco so we have a lot of experience with the consulate there. In addition, myself and another VJ member have a FB group for Morocco/US visas specifically. Keep in mind that the ONLY thing they will look at is your one short visit of 8 days - anything you bring to the interview does NOT need to be reviewed, so they will assume that he did not meet your family. Meeting a 2nd or 3rd time before filing does nothing but make both your case and your relationship a stronger one. In addition, the wait time for an interview for K1 is around 6-9 months after USCIS approves your case. There are plenty of people in our FB group whose K1 journey is much longer than a spouse visa because of that - some are around 2 years from filing until interview. Also keep in mind that if your K1 isn't approved (if they dont believe your relationship is real based on one visit of 8 days and not meeting your family), there is no appeal - you start all over again with the CR1. Its hard on many people to get married in Morocco - but it doesnt take THAT long - we got married in 5 days there and you could always consider the online Utah marriage too. It seems like people do what they want to do, so you've likely already made up your mind - but a year or two waiting for a K1 that may or may not happen is a huge risk to take based on the minimal evidence you have now.

You could just go and...visit the US, your significant other on their ESTA and then get married and both of you go back to the UK if that's what you are wanting to do (stay in the UK for awhile). Keep in mind that with either option, unless you are working for a US company and your work will continue in the US, you will need a sponsor. Also - with the spouse visa, you can delay your timeline a little after USCIS approves your case, if you aren't ready to return yet. With the K1, once your future spouse arrives in the US, they can't leave the US without their travel documents, and they cant work without employment authorization - so it could take many months and thousands of dollars after they are here on a K1 before you get those items and their green card. However, since you could just VISIT the US and get married and do the spouse visa, that makes a lot more sense?

While I completely understand the wanting to respect your adult children to meet her, meet the girls, etc - they are also adults, and if this is imperative to them, they could go to Cambodia to meet them, see the culture which would help them understand them more, etc. In addition if the wedding party is "pretty much a wedding" its possible that they could eventually think that you are married then you would waste all that time for nothing and have to start over. The Adjustment of Status process would be around $2200 for your (future) wife and roughly $1600 for each of the two children that you would have to do AFTER coming here on the K1 and AFTER getting married but BEFORE they receive their green cards. That's a huge expense that could be fixed by having your kids go to meet her there if it's that important to them. I don't disparage your reasons for wanting a K1, but many people around the world do get married without their families meeting their significant others because that's really the only choice they have (my husband had an unapproved/expired K1 prior to our successful spouse visa so we didn't have a choice). Your family should be able to understand your decision - in addition, if you did a spouse visa then YOU had an urgent situation you needed to return to the US for, your chances of being able to expedite for a spouse/step-children or just directly filing through the consulate is far greater. I have adult children too so I get that you would like them to meet her - but at the end, they are adults, they don't live with you, and this is ultimately your life decisions. The spouse visa is such a superior visa for so many reasons - just meeting your family and having a US wedding (which you could still do at a later time) seems like a weaker reason for wanting to do the K1 (in my opinion)

in the end though, it's people - not technology - that will be looking at all the petitions and approving them or denying them. Technology doesn't do that. I think that the biggest way technology could be beneficial is to have all petitions scanned to a central database and have people be able to review them remotely - this would eliminate the need for "service centers" and could be done throughout the US. While most K1s are processed in California, for other visas they are distributed to 5 (or 6 maybe? I cant remember) service centers and inevitably one has different processing times than another.

Your situation isn't any of my business and I don't expect a specific response but just a general question that I can see might be asked - if your health conditions have been going on for over 2 years and are significant enough that you arent able to work, how can you get by without health insurance? The cost of medical care is crazy high in the US.

The fees increased April 1st. https://www.uscis.gov/g-1055 look up each paper, they are no longer included when filing adjustment of status

Just adding to this that Springfield and Decatur are about 40 minutes apart from each other. Decatur is a smaller city, so a lot of people who were from Decatur may just say Springfield as its the closest "big city" - I live about 80 miles away from Springfield so I'm definitely familiar with the area. Where is he living now? In Illinois you can just go to the courthouse or county health department and get a birth certificate immediately.

If you look at the approval timeline estimate from USCIS (the best current source) it lists the K1 processing times until NOA2 of about 13.5 months: https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ while some will of course get theres faster, some will take longer than that. It looks like currently its about 4-5 months after NOA2 for interview. They don't prioritize any processing times, no. Your wait time for an interview AFTER your NOA2 would possibly be less as there are fewer who may be in the queue for an interview - but USCIS does not prioritize one country's petitions over anothers. I would have also advocated for the spouse visa, especially after 6 years together - the long wait for the AOS is burdensome to many couples.

While the K3 isn't QUITE dead - why would you want it? It has all the frustrating parts of the K1 (adjustment of status) and none of the benefits of the spouse visa. In the past few years, K3 issuances have been as follows: 2018 - 5 K3s issued (Mexico - 2, Bahamas, Brazil, Honduras - 1 each) 2019 - 7 K3s issued(Mexico - 3, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Venezuela and Yemen - 1 each) 2020 - 2 K3s issued (Honduras and Yemen) 2021 - 2 K3s issued (Mexico and Pakistan) 2022 - 4 K3s issued (Mexico - 2, Great Britain and Brazil - 1 each) 2023 - 6 K3s issued (Democratic Republic of the Congo - 2, China, Great Britain, Morocco and Yemen - 1 each) The only one I know the full detail of was the one from Morocco in August 2023 - basically because they were asking questions on a FB group and I didn't believe their K3 had been approved by USCIS so I asked and they sent me pictures and I kept thinking that they wouldn't actually GET the K3, but they did. In their situation, the couple had filed a K1, then got married and (unknowing the proper steps) filled out the I-130 and a couple days after the I-130 was filed they K1 was approved so they sent a request that, since they were not married and had filed the I-130, that the K1 be changed to a K3 - and surprisingly it was - which they verified through all NOAs and visa issued to me. I'm pretty sure they got lucky and it was a fluke. For the others that have been approved - I always wondered if they MEANT to get the K3 or if theirs were by accident also.

Can you show me where the military indicates that you can't travel to Morocco "and other countries" on your own personal vacation? It's not like he lives in North Korea? I've never heard of any restrictions based on a same sex relationship and if that's the case it would be good to have a valid US source to back it up

When my husband got his naturalization in April 2023, they specifically told him that he would need to renew his driver's license after becoming a US citizen.

No. You must do one then the other

Do you live together? I would get documents that show you live together - if you both have a driver's license or state ID with the same address on it - a health insurance card, utility bill, car insurance statement, something showing that you live in the same address. It looks like you filed a change of address for to the address the sponsor lives at - which is not the address of your spouse - is that correct?

1 - a cover letter doesnt need to be something fancy or formal. Your name, spouses name, we got married (date) at (location), and submitted our I-130 petition for spouse visa. Please see attached I-129F K3 petition. 2 - if it's not a huge hassle to do colour copies, I would just make colour copies. Most copy stores have colour copy machines. 3 - the only original thing needs to be the petition that you signed. You only have a copy of your marriage certificate - where is the original? I hope you didn't send an original with your I-130 because you will likely not get it back. I presume that you understand that the chances for a K3 are extremely slim - maybe only 4 have been approved worldwide in 2023 - and why would you want one anyway, because then you have to do the lengthy/costly adjustment of status process which -- NOT having to do that -- is one of the key benefits of doing the I-130 in the first place. I know there are some people who say that they feel it helps them "speed up" their I-130 by linking the two petitions together - but that's anecdotal evidence at best. For most people it does nothing at all - it seems very few it realistically helps. However, as it's free to submit, I guess there's no real "harm" in submitting it, but don't put much faith it will do anything in your favour.

When my husband had his oath ceremony there were some people in suits and some people in t-shirts. There was a big range. My husband wore khakis and a long sleeve henley type shirt.

Hi - not my case, my husband already here and has citizenship. Another couple I know from online - petitioner filed I-130 for spouse October 2022. Petitioner and beneficiary got into big argument, and she sent letter via USPS 8/16/23 to withdraw the petition. Next day, her and beneficiary made up and she was remorseful of having sent letter. Went to immigration attorney who advised her to write another letter withdrawing the first one. Wrote letter and uploaded it in the "documents" section of their case on 8/27/23 indicating that she had previously sent letter through the mail withdrawing their petition but wanted to cancel that. On 9/1/23 their case changed to "Active Review" and was then approved by USCIS same day. After she wrote the first letter, my advice to her had been to wait and when that letter was acknowledged, to re-file. What could the situation be now? If USCIS has NOT seen the first letter, can they still cancel the petition now that it's technically en route to NVC? Is it possible that they were "actively reviewing" her case BECAUSE they had received the letter and noticed the second one as well? Should they just proceed with NVC and hope for the best?