PLEASE HELP ME..K-3 OR CR-1 VISA

[Alema_2011 33]

Good Evening Beautiful people of of VJ..I would like to know the fastest way to get my husband in Africa to the US and the kind of forms i should go pick..We got married 3 months ago in Africa and Im in the US now and he is in Africa now also.I want him here as soon as possible.Please help me and kindly show me the directions and steps on the best forms for me to apply..Im confused over this K-3 visa and CR-1 Visa

[Jason and Shifa 4]

hallo

congrats on your marriage

you have to apply CR1 Visa but like everybody else you have to wait after you applied the I 130

K3 is obsolete..you can try it but at NVC stage they will change your K3 with CR1 Visa

Good Luck

Edited October 25, 2012 by Jason and Shifa

[NikLR 13,220]

CR1 is the way to go. The K3 visa is obsolete and virtually impossible to get. There are many many threads on this topic.

Here is from the NVC: http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_2993.html

I'm highlighting this part for you:

Important Notice: When both petitions have been approved by USCIS and sent to the NVC or when USCIS approves the I-130 before the I-129F, the availability of, as well as the need for, a nonimmigrant K-3 visa ends. If the NVC receives both an approved I-130 petition and an approved I-129F petition:

• The nonimmigrant K-3 visa case will be administratively closed.
• The application process explained below will not be available to the foreign-citizen spouse and cannot be used.
• The NVC will contact the U.S. citizen sponsor and foreign-citizen spouse, with instructions for processing the IR-1 (or CR-1) immigrant visa. For more information on the immigrant visa process, review the Immigrant Visa for a Spouse webpage.

If the NVC receives the approved I-129F petition before it receives the I-130 petition, the NVC will process the I-129F petition.

Also to add, the K3 visa does cost more (almost twice as much) and often takes just as much time as a CR1 visa. http://www.visajourney.com/content/compare

[jkelly07 120]

congratulations on your marriage,since your already married you need to file the 1-130 form cr-1 visa,you wil see in some guides k-3 but it's no longer in use since about two years ago, now it's the cr-1

[Boy&Bell 1]

Thank you for the aforementioned info. My husband will start off with the petition and this site would serve us a big help. God bless all!

[kwara4u 14]

CR-1 is way to go, its almost same time as K3 but its much safe cuz you are legally married. CR1 takes 9-10 months from application I-130 filled to the interview date assigned but if you are on top of your paper work you can get an interview in 6-7 months.

Send i-130 form and then have these forms ready to go

I-864 Affidavit of support

I-864A Contract between sponsor and household member (this is used if you will use a joint sponsor)

DS-230 Application for immigrant visa application

Legal Document

Marriage certificate (original)

Birth certificate (original)

Police Certificate (Original)

[tEe328cEe 12]

i will be in the same problem in 2 months time... i'm getting married on december and my husband will be filing I-130 when he gets back in the US on january.. but i'm a bit confused right now because i've read that K1 visa is more faster.. i don't want to waste time being away from my fiance.. please help us out on what to do.. thank you guys!

PS: my fiance really wants us to be married before he comes back to US. but maybe i could convince him over taking the K1 visa if it has more advantage.

[NikLR 13,220]

You can click on the same link I posted above to compare the visas. In my personal opinion, I did not do the K1 because it seemed to be taking as long as the CR1 and it cost twice as much. Plus I would have had to plan a USA wedding. I wanted my mom, a reverend, to marry us, so that eliminated the k1 for us.

[Ryan H 3,791]

Moved from Progress Reports to Process & Procedures.

[kwara4u 14]

Please do CR-1 and file your I-130 after u r married. Many people file before getting married and it has caused them problems. Cr1 and fiancé visa is same time for processing. With cr1 u r safe and no paperwork after husband or wife enters US