leviiathan

Read the first page very carefully.. > send us the following documents by e-mail: It goes on to list 1. Ds-160 confirmation page, 2. Scanned copy of the checklist below, 3. Colour-Scanned copy of the beneficiaries valid passport bio page. That's what you send them. The three things it lists for you to send. Many recommend filling out the checklist, a check mark for what you have/will have, and an N/A for things that dont apply. You do NOT need to send everything on the checklist nor would that benefit you at all, just send what it asks you to send on the first page! Make sure you have a long form birth certificate and the right police report. Those are very specific and one of the MAIN 221g's ive seen at the consulates are due to not having the right ones.

I also do want to mention, that 3-4 months is a very generous estimate you're giving. First 90 days, you'll likely still be settling. You may PLAN to file adjustment of status and marry right away, but natural delays may set you back. I intended to file for AOS within the first month, the second at LATEST. Ended up not marrying until the second month, and filing for AOS on the third. I got really lucky with my work authorization wait times, but for many people it can be many months, or over a year. It means that you have to plan for what could be sure 3 months off work, or what could be over a year because that's the unfortunate reality with the wait times of work authorization on a K-1. Never plan to get lucky, I actually frequently suggest to plan for the absolute worst timelines or luck because you never know if it could be you. And when better luck happens, you'd be overjoyed But if you dont plan for the worst of the timelines when you are making your selection, you might end up putting yourself in a bad spot. meaning it could potentially be over a year, unable to work, drive (this depends on the state), or leave the country on K-1, so gotta be prepared for that if you do end up choosing K-1

Take all dates with a grain of salt. When I applied for I-129f, the wait for petition approval was 6-9 months, when I was approved it was 12 months. I had no idea when I was going to be approved, each day I was looking at what cases they were processing trying to figure out even a rough idea, and there just was no possible way to estimate it. I didn't know things could change so fast, you never know with USCIS. I have a friend who applied for I-129f months ago when the speeds weren't exactly getting better, and their wait was an estimated 14-16 months. Now it's looking like it 12 or under, and they're not quite feeling ready for that speed. USCIS will throw countless curveballs at you, that will have you so confused. Hope for the best, expect the worst, and expect your expectations of the worst to be blown out of the water because somehow, they have the ability to always disappoint you. USCIS timelines are simply a display of "How long have the current approvals been waiting?" not, "How will approvals look 12+ months down the line". In reality, you wont have a good idea on when you can/will move until you have the visa in your hand. There are even occasionally issues at the interview that lengthens your wait, Montreal for example gives out a lot of DS-3025 that ends up taking people like 6+ months to get through. Still uncommon, but point is; you don't know what will delay you. Don't rely on a timeline.

The thing that I think you're missing, is there are multiple steps to the K-1 process. First you file your I-129f petition, you wait for your case to be adjudicated either with an RFE, approval, or in rare cases a denial. Once approved, your case is sent to the national visa center which is essentially just a mailing center for K-1 (but they do a lot more for I-130 CR1/IR1) which sends it off to the consulate. Montreal then sends you P3, which is a pre-interview checklist to ensure you have everything you need. Once you reply to them with the information requested in the P3, they send you P4. That can be same day, or it can be a few weeks. P4 allows you to book the interview. My wait was about 5 months for the interview, and it would've been 4 but I had an issue with the consulate. They ghosted me, despite having only sent 2 emails. Weird. But we resent it on my Husbands end and got our P4. As you can view from my timeline My I-129f was approved in 367 days from my NOA1 date. My interview took 521 days from my I-129F NOA1 date. There wasn't a huge extra wait for my interview, and I still am a regular chatter with a bunch of other Montreal peeps whos timelines are very similar to mine, and more recent. I-130 is similar, but has a different NVC > Interview process which is longer than K-1's NVC > interview. For the I-130, they actually ask stuff for you at NVC and whatnot I couldnt do I-130 because of covid, I couldn't leave Canada because there was a mandatory hotel quarantine that was costing people around $2000 at minimum in my area. I can't afford that, we had enough money for all visa expenses and the while of time I cannot work, but what we didn't have is "just because" money. We had no idea when Canada was going to lift those restrictions, so we filed K-1. The restrictions didn't lift until months later, so I am still confident in that choice but I do wish I-130 had been possible. K-1 has sucked. If I leave out the part where they processed me as a b2 on entry, then it's still been a heap of trouble. Trying to get on my husbands bank as a joint sponsor, they kept trying to input me as a citizen. I kept telling them the importance of them NOT doing that, I'm not a citizen and I don't want false claims that I am literally being on my bank account, that sounds really dangerous. But time and time again they kept calling to check if citizenship was the right box, and said that they didn't have any other options because I don't have an ITIN. Eventually, they called some supervisor and was able to resolve that. When my husband and I were quoted health insurance, we searched all around. The cheapest we could find was like $250, with a 9k deductible and doctor visits not covered. I'm pretty young, so unless something absolutely devastating happens I am not frequenting hospital visits, nothing I do would even reach that 9k. We don't have that kind of money for a possibility. The only viable option, or the one I thought would be fine, was $500 and it had doctor visits, prescriptions, and I forget how much the deductible was but it was significantly less. The issue is, we don't have an extra $500/month to put towards health insurance! On a k-1 you can't work for awhile, so that's Rent/mortgage, health insurance, car insurance, food, and care products all on one persons pay. Many can afford that, some can't. It hasn't been an issue in my marriage, even now i'm not working to further my career despite being able to, but it is an additional stress for something that could feel very preventable if you were simply able to work! Not all jobs in america provides good health insurance either, my husbands work covers something so little that im surprised they can even call it health insurance. $150/year towards wellness checks, like.. $100 per overnight hospital visits... Another big issue, is no travel permission. I have seen many cases of people who entered on a k-1, realize one of their close family members is dying. Even with an expedited I-131, they didn't get it in time to say goodbye. That's a real possibility, you never know what could happen and how fast USCIS will deal with it. There's something really hard about being the beneficiary, unable to travel knowing each day something could happen to your childhood dog, or your parent, or sibling, or friend, and not be certain that you'd be able to be there! I feel so happy each day that I got my GC before anything bad happened, but not everyone is as lucky as I to be able to say that. Hope this helps, K-1 is a nightmare and I hope that whatever path you choose, that it turns out great.

K-1 doesn't currently have any longer of a wait at the Canada Montreal Consulate. It used to be pretty bad, now it's just a normal wait of a few months with the P3 and P4 process. Spousal though is overall better for all the options above stated by Crazy Cat. I doubt your lawyer said that to skew your options or screw your over, at least the incorrect wait part, as not very long ago it was taking 8 months for an interview. It cleared up around the time I had my interview actually, and has remained steady. Its pretty common for lawyers to be behind on their information, as they are basing their information typically off recent clients, and not always current experiences. Means they miss out on a lot of information This is not to discredit the advice of going the I-130 spousal route, as I would opt for that if it had been an option for me due to all the benefits it has.

If you are filing AOS within one year of your medical, you do not need to do the I-693 as per the instructions. You should've received the DS-3025 from your medical doctor you can throw in, and if you want to be extra sure to not have any issues you can throw in the instructions page of the I-693 (iirc its page 7) that says that you do not need it. If they end up asking for it though, you can do it at that point

What benefit would there be for lying? Mine took 25 days, literally got it the day I got biometrics. I don't know why it happened, I didn't need it that fast. Took my friend a year. I also know people who filed after me and already got their greencard, but it's weird to come to a conclusion that they'd potentially be liars USCIS is just a mess.

The concern isn't the cost. It's the fact that if the price were to change on the 30th, filing at the current fee wouldn't be possible and the case would be rejected. Instead it was wanting to ensure theres the correct fee, so it won't get rejected. He didn't mind paying more at all really. However since the prices are not changing based on what others said here (yet) its not an issue! But yeah.. only concern was timing and ensuring the petition would be solid! They do know all the drawbacks with the full k1 process, including what the updated costs will be. Thank you for the concern though Id definitely have gone with spousal if it had been possible so I get it

I can't find anything either : / Ive only been able to find the source that shows all the proposed fees, but as for when the changes come in affect I can only find non-official sources. Hopefully someone else who sees this thread will have it, I asked the person who had first said to me they were changing shortly and they didnt have it either So.. big grain of salt.

No. But monday is a holiday. They were planning on mailing it a the very end of the month, so they're not prepared to send everything tomorrow. If they did though manage to get everything by tomorrow, it would be sent into transit on the 26th (mail pickup is usually at the start of the day if im not mistaken?). 27th and 28th are weekends, the 29th is a holiday. 30th the change goes into affect. Not really much time to send it and have it be guaranteed to get there before the 30th at this point.

Gotcha, they'll wait till the first to send it then just to be sure it goes through fine. Thank you!

To be clear I am asking this for a friend, as you can see by my timeline i've already applied but the friend has the same location (Canada-USA) I've been told the proposed I-129f filing fees are going through May 30th So if someone were to send their petition May 26th for example with the $535 original fee, and it arrives at the lockbox on May 31st or slightly later, will that petition be rejected for having the original fee listed on the website at the time of sending it? Or is there some leeway for those who are applying this week? Thanks in advance!

Wrong classification for a k1 holder though which is the point I was intending to get across. Yes it'd be technically correct, in the matter of its not a USCIS screw-up, but it is a lawyer screwup. It may or may not point to what the answers on the forms would be, which seems to change what you can even do in this situation. If so, that further proves the lawyers incompetence

Mine says "admitted as k1 fiance or k2 child" Looks like your lawyer did it entirely wrong : ( ugh to both take and waste extra money, so awful.

To offer another persons experience to OP in reference to this, I hadnt received my engagement ring yet at the time of filing. I submitted 0 proof of engagement ring, no wedding invitations, really nothing like that. We got engaged over a video call, so as you can likely imagine we had no proof of that. I'm now in the USA pending Adjustment of status adjudication. It was absolutely no issue for USCIS. A fiance/fiancee is not determined by their ring, wedding plans, any of that : ) Good luck OP! It's going to be okay❤️ Id heavily suggest NOT making any wedding plans. Seen a couple people here and in a few k1 groups who planned a wedding extensively and lost thousands of dollars because of how unpredictable USCIS is. They wont speed up so you can have your wedding so it leaves a lot of people screwed. They dont expect you to risk hundreds of dollars! Edit: I'd also heavily suggest I-130 as others have mentioned!!!!!! I wish it had been viable for me to do that path.