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It would actually be 3 countries. She was residing in Switzerland at the time we were doing the K1 process, but she is a citizen of Italy and Argentina We've decided to hold off on the name change until naturalization, we have enough paperwork to do for now

Why do people that? Does it make things easier for the AOS/naturalization?

My wife entered the US on a K1 visa. Per VJ's recommendation, we applied for her SSN two weeks after her entry We applied online with her maiden name and made the soonest appointment available to present her identification documents at a SSA office We got married yesterday and the SSA appointment is this week. She wants to change her name Our marriage certificate (which I believe is required at the SSA office to change one's name) is coming in the mail, but I think it will be a week or two. Should we just continue with the SSN process with her maiden name and then change it later? Or should we reschedule our appointment for later so we can take our marriage certificate

For posterity: They said it was fine, they would use the address from our I-134 Our visa was approved 🎉

ok, thanks!

Hi, My fiancee's K1 interview is tomorrow She just realized while reviewing our I-129F that I put down the wrong zip code in the "Address in the United States Where Your Beneficiary Intends to Live" field - I mindlessly used the zip code from a previous address of mine The address is my current address and I did put it in correctly elsewhere on the form Obviously our I-129F is already approved, but she's worried. What is this field used for? Can it be updated at the interview?

Interesting... based on this thread it seems like it's possible to request a change with the NVC with a K-1 too. Is there something I'm missing here? When and how does the embassy get decided? Is it based on where the beneficiary is residing at the time of filing the I-129F? I haven't been able to find that info. Thanks to everyone for the replies

She is a dual citizen with Italy, she is in Switzerland based on their free movement agreement with the EU. Ok, good to know... it sounds like changing embassies would be more of a pain than I thought originally. It is looking more certain that she will be moving sometime soon, so maybe it will be best to wait until after the move

We're unsure of the country - she is originally from Argentina and currently living in Switzerland, though she may be moving back to Argentina before this is all over. According to this, both countries' embassies take ~40 days, though there isn't a lot of data points there.

Based on what I've read online, it seems like the consensus has been that the CR-1 is strictly better than the K-1 because the processing times were similar but the CR-1 allows you to work as soon as you enter the US. However, according to VJ, the processing times for the I-129F have halved in the past year while the I-130 has stayed roughly the same. I understand that the benefits of the CR-1 are significant, but right now our goal is to get together ASAP, so the K-1 seems better for us. Has the online consensus not caught up with the data or am I missing something? Even if VJ has a smaller, self-reported dataset, the trend seems quite clear