Jsecrest01

No, you send in the DS 260 (print out a copy for your records first)

and you must mail the others with bar code and cover letter in mail as especially the criminal investigation reports with translations must be originals

remember to add case number and DOB's to upper right hand corner of each and every page

My wife is getting ready to fill this form out (we have paid our fees and such) and we are wondering how we send additional documents in with the form. It says originals but it also says to send an email attachment soooo...do we just scan them and send an attached email somehow or? I just want to be sure we do this 100% correct. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry it seems ridiculous, but really you are one of the lucky ones considering your wife is Canadian. Very little chance of getting stuck waiting in AP for extra background checks and also just a really high acceptance rate coming from such a low-fraud country with good relations to the US.

She is still allowed to visit as some mentioned, and while I am not exactly familiar with rules for visiting from Canada, I believe she can visit without any sort of visa for up to 6 months. Things may be more scrutinized with an active visa application, but still you are in a very good position compared to spouses from most other countries... And as you mentioned you were able to stay in Canada with her for quite some time.

I'm not saying you're situation is a good one to be in, just probably a lot better than most of the people who you are talking with right now. Just keep that and mind and be thankful.

I certainly am thankful but the problem is we both do not really have the money or ability to take time off of work to visit with our current situations.

She could have stayed, so long as her original intent wasn't using her visitor permissions to get into the country and then adjust status.

Forget about the K-3, they've been obsolete for years.

So intending to come to America on a visitor visa to get married and after that file for a change of status isn't immigration fraud?

What irritates me about this most is that I called the US Immigration call center and they told me that if she were to come here on a visitor visa that she was not allowed to simply file a change of status because it would be considered immigration fraud since she was visiting and her intent would be to stay after we were married. Thats why she left because we wanted to do what they said we had to do. So now because of that we have to do this 10 - 12 month process. I asked them several times this same question (I called 3 times and spoke to 3 representatives) just to be damn sure and well apparently they gave me incorrect information. I was made to believe that I could file this i-130 form and then file a k3 visa form which would allow her to come here while the other form was processing. Their words, not mine. So yeah, thanks USCIS

There is no way for her to live and work here during the process. She can still come and visit but she can't move until she has the cr1 visa in hand. It takes about 10-12 months.

So you are saying that we have to wait a year even though we're married? This whole process is ridiculous, I mean she's my wife and it feels like we have to jump through so many hoops just to be together. There are no other alternatives to this 10 - 12 month timeline? That seems like such a bleak outlook for anyone going through this sort of thing, an almost helplessness it imposes on you. I thought the K - 3 Visa was something you could file to help the process, I remember seeing something about receiving an i-17something form after you send in and they receive your i-130 and you send that in with the i-129. Or is that just something that applies to no married couples? I dont know, this all gives me a headache when I try to figure it out and all I want, all we want, is to be together.

Hello,

My wife and I are trying to make sense of all the steps and wait times associated with her coming to live here in the U.S. She is a Canadian citizen and we were married on January 1st of this year. She had come to the states for us to get married and has since returned home for now. We have known each other for a period of over 4 years and have been in a relationship for most of that period. I was staying in Canada with her for quite a while but had to return to the states when my status ran out. Now that we are officially married we need to know what the fastest method is for us to be together again here and finally start our lives together without all of this separation. I know I will be filing the i-130 sponsorship form in the coming week or so but I have also heard that there is another form to file that will allow her to come here to live and work while that is processing. Does such a thing exist and if so is it worth filing (as it pertains to processing time in comparison to the i-130)? Bottom line is we are both emotional wrecks still and before we were married we had spent 8 months apart and that was complete hell. Please help with any information you may have