travusb

Totally agree with chrissandra on everything. My wife found not working fun for a couple of weeks before it started driving her crazy, or was I the one doing that? We ended up getting a puppy since she was home to train her all day. So all in all now we have a well trained 9 month old lab that we both adore so it wasn't all bad. The biggest issue is that she was unable to travel back to Canada while we waited forever for her greencard. Her father passed away from covid right before moving to the US and we we're worried about the same happening to her mother during this time. The CR1 is by far the best the way to go. We only went with the K1 because at the time it was faster and gave us a 3 month living together trial run before anything was super final, but we regretted that immediately after she got here. We also did all the paperwork ourselves and while it can be overwhelming sometimes it saved us a ton of money.

Sadly no one knows, and it'll take as much time as it takes.

As others have stated you can cancel the K1 pretty easily, but once you cancel it there is no undo button without refiling a new K1 and going to the end of the line. So make sure you take the time to figure out if this is what you want. Seeing as your application has been in for 3 months it's hard to advise to start over with a CR1 from a time perspective. That being said everyone is advising you to think about the CR1 because of the benefits it brings. We did the K1 and regretted it. We thought who cares if it takes 6 months before she can work or travel out of the United States, but here's what we found out. 1. Not working or contributing financially in the marriage can drive some people mad. So your partner has to get hobbies or something else to keep them sane. We went with getting and training a puppy so it wasn't too bad. 2. Her father ended up passing away from covid. This was before she came to the US but it had us worried about her mother and she was unable to visit her while we waited for AOS. All that being said the waiting is very difficult and if your only goal is both of you being back here in the US as soon as possible I would suggest just waiting for your K1 application.

I guess it depends on what document you forgot to send in the original application. In general I recommend not submitting more information without first receiving an RFE.

I know you have your answer but I'll put this here incase someone else is thinking about doing something like this. Never, under any circumstance, put down any information that you know is incorrect on immigration documentation. When you sign at the bottom you are telling the US government that all the information above is correct to your knowledge. If you later get an immigration officer that doesn't like you or could be having a bad day you could get an instant denial. It's just not worth the risk to get something mailed to a more convenient location.

I personally would refrain from uploading or changing anything. The best case is it is likely to change nothing. The worst case is since something changed they get confused or reset you in the queue of people. Take any new information with you to the interview so if the agent has any questions you can answer and show documents as proof. I know the waiting is hard but that's really all you can do.

My wife and I got a puppy during this time. It was a great opportunity because she could be home for potty-training and training as a puppy. We just had our AOS interview a couple weeks ago and the puppy is ready to be home alone once we get her greencard and she finds a job, coming home at lunch to have a bathroom break and play session of course. She was starting to feel the pain of not doing anything until we got the puppy. I think she's really enjoyed training and playing with her during the early development. She's a preschool teacher so it was kind of like she had a job again.