Wife and I are in Israel trying to get to the U.S as quick as possible

[vich32 0]

Hey everyone!

Glad i found this forum ..

I have a question i cant seem find the answer to anywhere...

background:

my wife is an american citizen... we met in the states while i was on my b2 tourist visa but then it experienced i flew back to israel and she came 2 weeks after..

we got married in cyprus and we wanted to get back to the states as quick as possible... we talked to a lawyer he said the processes will take around 6 months.. so we stayed positive.. we filed the I-130 2 months ago and now i read that the whole processes to get cr-1/2 visa takes around a year! that so long and we are here together but still we had now idea we would have to stay for that long..

Now my question is simple.. Considering we want to get back to the US as soon as possible.. Should we apply for a K-3 Visa or continue with the CR-1/2 processes.?

Thanks for you answers..

[canadian_wife 1,823]

K3 is obsolete and rarely issued. Stick with the Cr1 path - it is a superior visa anyway

good luck

[vich32 0]

Thanks for the Reply..

any idea why the lawyer was saying it would only take 6 months for us to get back? yet everywhere else it says around 12? maybe somehting to do witht he fact that we are here toghter?

[Deagle 508]

I filed CR1 and got my visa within 9 month, a person I know filed since exactly 2 years and he still didnt get his visa, his interview is this month. There are many factors when it comes to the visa processing time.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I suspect the lawyer quoted a shorter time to get you to hire him/her.

It is variable; there is no set time published anywhere (rather, since each part of the process goes through different departments, only little pieces of the journey are given a time frame). People's estimates here are from watching lots of cases.

[vich32 0]

thanks for Replying .. i guess we will just have to wait.. to see when it gets approved...

[vich32 0]

thanks for Replying .. i guess we will just have to wait.. to see when it gets approved...

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

thanks for Replying .. i guess we will just have to wait.. to see when it gets approved...

The process times vary - for a while it may be six months, then stretch out to a year.. Ours went about 9 months.

Remember you go through USCIS, then NVC, then have to find an open appointment date at the embassy for the interview. Looking at the latest timelines for Israel it looks like the NOA2 is only taking a few months (varies greatly) but the time from NOA2 to go through NVC and then to the appointment is around six months - Those times are are always shifting. All you can really see is that if you had done it around nine months ago that it would have taken nine months...

If I had friends from Israel asking me how long it would take today I would tell them "Impossible to know exactly but looking at current timelines the interview should happen about nine months from your NOA1 give or take a month"

Edited April 9, 2016 by OnMyWayID

[blanche 2]

How's it going? We are here almost 7 years and I've been waiting to return to the US for most of that time! But we only filed the CR-1 in December. Still waiting. Hoping to be done with NVC soon and get an appointment in Jerusalem in the next 2 months, I estimate. I thought, going into this, that it would take a year, also, but apparently it can take around 7 months if you get all your fees paid and forms sent really quickly. Might as well get all the paperwork you need to send to NVC ready now (ie the Israel police certificate is known to take 3 weeks or more). Good luck!