Should we file for K3 7.5 months into the process?

[ABertozzi 25]

Hello everyone,

 

My husband filed an I-130 petition for me on March 31st and since then there has been no movement on the case (it immediately said "active review", but that is clearly a lie). The waiting has been driving me crazy and so I started reading through lots of things in the IR1 forum.

This lead me to the discovery of the K3 visa and that apparently it can help speed things up. Now the thing is that we are already 7.5 months into the process, with an estimated 4 months to go according to USCIS. Since it's going to take us a little minute to compile everything needed for the petition, plus mailing it in, we may be getting closer to 3 months until a potential approval of the I-130. It seems almost not worth going through the trouble of trying this now, but what are your thoughts on this? I know it is free, the only cost would be the postage and the new passport pictures.

 

Maybe for some context: The main reason why I am getting antsy is that we have two young children and we used to all live together here in Austria, but my husband had to go ahead of us because of better work prospects in the US (unfortunately not one of those expedite/DCF kind of cases). Since this is taking longer than I hoped it would and the older daughter is missing her dad so much, I'm again looking into what I can possibly do to speed things up.

 

On the other hand, I'm also trying to get things ready for the NVC stage, so once we are approved, we can upload everything quickly. There's actually quite a lot of things to work on, like police certificates (in my case from a total of 4 countries, 3 of which seem to have a slightly complicated procedure), figuring out details for the Affidavit of Support etc. Am I better off spending my time on that?

 

I appreciate your advice/thoughts!

[pushbrk 12,234]

No movement on the case since late March is normal.  There's never any movement until, approval, denial, or RFE.  It takes a year or more.  It costs nothing but your time and effort to file an I-129f for spouse. It...MIGHT....speed things up,....or not.

[ABertozzi 25]

Thank you for your quick answer! Unfortunately, it is turning out to be more complicated than expected due to the criminal background part, so at this point I will let it be and wait it out. Thanks for your feedback though!