Quicker way to get to USA

[Manuela1 1]

Im from Colombia, I have a 5 months old daughter, my husband is in the military and he isn’t allowed to come to Colombia, is there a quicker way for me to get the states besides the IR-1/CR-1

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

18 minutes ago, Manuela1 said:

Im from Colombia, I have a 5 months old daughter, my husband is in the military and he isn’t allowed to come to Colombia, is there a quicker way for me to get the states besides the IR-1/CR-1

Sadly there is no other way at all at this point in time. Your husband needs to file ASAP for you and your daughter. 

[EandH0904 1,184]

Your husband needs to file for you and crba for the baby. 

 

If you think you have a reason to expedite based on their criteria you can try to do so but expedites are not common. We all want to be with our spouse as soon as possible. 

 

https://www.uscis.gov/forms/expedite-criteria

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

1 hour ago, Manuela1 said:

Im from Colombia, I have a 5 months old daughter, my husband is in the military and he isn’t allowed to come to Colombia, is there a quicker way for me to get the states besides the IR-1/CR-1

I just noticed that you put Fayettevile NC down for where your husband lives I take it. I live here in Fayetteville as well and he needs to talk with someone he can contact me if need be. 

 

 

Another poster brought up another issue I forgot to ask as well. Has your husband filed for CRBA for your daughter?

[Manuela1 1]

9 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

I just noticed that you put Fayettevile NC down for where your husband lives I take it. I live here in Fayetteville as well and he needs to talk with someone he can contact me if need be. 

 

 

Another poster brought up another issue I forgot to ask as well. Has your husband filed for CRBA for your daughter?

Thanks I’ll let him know, yes my daughter already has an American passport 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

5 minutes ago, Manuela1 said:

Thanks I’ll let him know, yes my daughter already has an American passport 

Do you know if he is due to deploy soon? If he is you can do a military expedite to make it go faster for you. 

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from Progress Reports to Process & Procedures.

[geowrian 22,337]

The only marriage-based you may qualify for is a CR-1/IR-1.

As noted, you can request an expedite if you meet the expedite criteria. You would need to request an expedite again at the NVC or embassy stage.

 

If you qualify for another visa (likely one that permits immigrant intent), that could work. However, these would be work or investment visas...not something most people would qualify for and may not even be faster.

If you have an extraordinary talent, an O-1 can work. Also a very high bar that most people don't qualify for.

If you work in some sort of company that has a US-branch and within certain types of work, you can apply for an L-1 (intracompany transferee) visa.

[CB & FM 43]

15 hours ago, Manuela1 said:

Im from Colombia, I have a 5 months old daughter, my husband is in the military and he isn’t allowed to come to Colombia, is there a quicker way for me to get the states besides the IR-1/CR-1

I found this about the K-3/K-4 but they say that due to the IR-1/CR-1 being processed faster now that it might not make it any faster. But you could check into it. Good luck whichever way you choose.

https://www.uscis.gov/family/family-us-citizens/k-3k-4-nonimmigrant-visas

[Roel 7,192]

K3 is no existent. 

 

Unfortunately CR1 is the only way to go. 

If your husband would be deploying (orders in hand) that could be only reason for expedite I could think of. 

 

Otherwise him being military doesn't grant you any advantages when it comes to immigration. 

 

Sorry. Nothing quick avout immigration. Everyone waits. So dont waste more time and file for spouse visa. 

Edited June 27, 2018 by Roel

[geowrian 22,337]

2 hours ago, CB & FM said:

I found this about the K-3/K-4 but they say that due to the IR-1/CR-1 being processed faster now that it might not make it any faster. But you could check into it. Good luck whichever way you choose.

https://www.uscis.gov/family/family-us-citizens/k-3k-4-nonimmigrant-visas

As noted, K-3 is obsolete. it was common back when a CR-1/IR-1 was taking multiple years to process.

 

A K-3 requires an I-130 then an I-129F. USCIS policy is adjudicate both at the same time. If the I-130 is approved sooner, the I-129F is denied due to another benefit being obtained already.

NVC policy is that if an I-129F arrives at the same time or after a corresponding I-130, then the I-129F is administratively closed.

These policies combined mean almost every K-3 visa process stops here, and the I-130 remains open for a CR-1/IR-1 visa to continue through NVC and embassy processing.

 

If the I-129F somehow makes it past NVC and to the consulate, I'd point out that only 29 K-3s were issued last fiscal year (compared to over 100,000 CR-1/IR-1s), with a 58% overall refusal rate. These numbers are after 221(g)s are considered, inadmissibilities waived, etc. The initial refusal rate is considerably higher.

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Non-Immigrant-Statistics/NIVWorkload/FY2017NIVWorkloadbyVisaCategory.pdf

Edited June 27, 2018 by geowrian

[Jojo92122 1,924]

2 hours ago, CB & FM said:

I found this about the K-3/K-4 but they say that due to the IR-1/CR-1 being processed faster now that it might not make it any faster. But you could check into it. Good luck whichever way you choose.

https://www.uscis.gov/family/family-us-citizens/k-3k-4-nonimmigrant-visas

Only a handful of K3s lead to visas.  Practically none when compared to the CR1/IR1.   K3 is pretty unrealistic for the vast majority of people.