Can I go K3 route and return to consulate for CR1

[worried 0]

Hello everyone. When someone takes the K3 route, what happens to the cr1 interview at the consulate. Is it cancelled or can one go back to the consulate for the cr1 interview and not have to deal with the AOS in the US. I am thinking about going the k3 route since my cr1 is scheduled 7 months later. Now i just want to know after going for k3 interview can I keep the cr1 interview and return to my country 7 months later for that interview. Please if you have taken this path please please share your experience. If anyone has any comments or advise please share...thank you

[imaisha 1]

Yes you can do that. I believe that was actually the original intention for the K-3.

[worried 0]

Yes you can do that. I believe that was actually the original intention for the K-3.

So why dont most applicants just go back to their consulate and not deal with AOS. It seems so much easier to go back to consulate and have second iterview. I mean are there complications.. Imaisha, wasnt that the route you opt for. please share ur experience

[daboyz 36]

Yes you can do that. I believe that was actually the original intention for the K-3.

So why dont most applicants just go back to their consulate and not deal with AOS. It seems so much easier to go back to consulate and have second iterview. I mean are there complications.. Imaisha, wasnt that the route you opt for. please share ur experience

Probably the main thing is cost. It's expensive to fly back to the consulate for the CR-1 interview in most cases. The CR-1 path only takes about a month or two longer these days, so most people just ignore the K-3. K-3 is pretty much obsolete these days. There's also document issues. For the K-3 you need to take original B/C and police report etc. to the interview. For CR-1 you have to send these to NVC.

[imaisha 1]

Imaisha, wasnt that the route you opt for. please share ur experience

We decided to just go for the CR-1. We followed the K-3 up until interview scheduling but the London embassy was moving really slowly with it. We wound up getting a CR-1 interview date before London even considered making the K-3 appointment so we were very lucky in that sense.

We would've gone to the K-3 interview and tried to flip it to a CR-1. It was never our intention for him to leave the country with a K-3, well not once we learned about how much the K-3 was NOT what we wanted haha. It's important that he be work authorized as soon as he gets here as he's got a job lined up already and I definitely am not ready to deal with USCIS again so AOS wasn't looking like much fun. Even if we had gotten a K-3 date, it probably would've been just a little earlier than the CR-1 so it wouldn't really make sense for him to pay for a 2nd visa and come over then fly back so soon.

In your case, if you can afford to fly back for the CR-1 interview, definitely go for the K-3 and just come back in 7 months for the other interview. The embassy will not give you a hard time and you'll even have an easier time with the second interview for having the K-3 already, so it's a big plus.

[Enlighten one :) 5]

If you already have a cr1 appointment, the consulate will not accept you K3 petition.

Why is your interview scheduled so far out? Most of the time it just takes 2-3 months for an interview. Although its been a while since I trended the NIgerian interview time frame.

If you come to the contry on a K3 you cannot return to teh coutnry to do the cR1 interview.

Hello everyone. When someone takes the K3 route, what happens to the cr1 interview at the consulate. Is it cancelled or can one go back to the consulate for the cr1 interview and not have to deal with the AOS in the US. I am thinking about going the k3 route since my cr1 is scheduled 7 months later. Now i just want to know after going for k3 interview can I keep the cr1 interview and return to my country 7 months later for that interview. Please if you have taken this path please please share your experience. If anyone has any comments or advise please share...thank you