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Why are people submitting I-129F's for K3 visa? I thought you just had to submit a I-130 and wait?

Question - has anyone else experienced this? I keep getting emails from USCIS's site that "they've taken an action on my case" and I should log in to the website to check the case status. However, I only submitted three days ago, and every time I log in, it just says it's "actively being reviewed" -- which has been the same thing it's said since I submitted it. Does anyone have any insight? Thanks.

All of those posts are why we chose at the last second to get married when he was here on vacation for Christmas. And I do appreciate not going through adjustment of status and all that nonsense.

Thanks. It does make me wonder if switching from K1 to CR1 was worth it, given the "time saved" was eaten up by it taking me six weeks to file and the two months between filing and getting married... but ah well, it's submitted and done with now. Just have to wait.

Hello - I have a question about how timelines work. When it says "your I-130 will most likely be adjudicated" between such and such date, does that mean JUST the I-130, or also the consular processing bit that leads to my husband entering the country? Context: I am a US citizen in the US filing for a spouse overseas. Thanks!

Hi - there is an error on the I-130 online form for my (the petitioner's) address history. For my current address, it required me to list an ending date before moving on in the form. I listed today's date (my submission date), but this is wrong, because I am still living here and will be after the form is submitted. Is there anything I can do to let USCIS know? Thank you.

Thanks. That's one thing I was thinking about, how to keep the time my petition would suck up from being dead space in the very long line.

Hello all, Filed an I129F back in October 2022. However, got married in the US while fiance was visiting in December 2022. He returned home back to Poland on Jan 1 and is there now, and I'm in the US. Us eloping voided our I-129F petition as we are now married and not engaged. I am getting ready to submit our I-130 this week. My question is, do I have to contact USCIS to withdraw the K1 visa, or is it automatically withdrawn by me submitting an I-130? I have no idea how they organize that stuff. If I am going to withdraw it, how do I do it? Send them a letter? I am submitting my CR1 visa online, if that's helpful. Thanks for the advice.

Okay, thanks for the explanation all. I appreciate it.

So it doesn't matter that we live apart, even though they have a part where they say we should show evidence of living together like a joint lease? I thought I had read that not living together is a red flag.

Hello all. I am trying to draft a letter explanation of why my spouse and I live apart. We originally filed a K1 visa application in October 2022, but with the ballooning wait times, chose to get married while he was in the country on an ESTA in December 2022. He then went home from vacation back to Poland, as planned, and I am in the process of trying to file this CR1 visa, since we nullified the K1 visa. My question is, how do I explain that we currently live apart and have never lived together in a way that makes sense to USCIS? We've been together for four years now, and have five trips together to either country and have met each other's family, so I'm not super worried about lack of evidence. Do I just say we felt the CR1 visa would better fit our family's needs and are choosing to file that one as a result, and that the reason we don't live together is because we are abiding by immigration law and are still citizens of our respective countries? We do not have mitigating factors like school or work. We just decided we would prefer to do the CR1 visa and so got married and he went home. Any advice is welcome. Thanks.