daboyz

My I-129F was filed about 30 days after the I-130. Curious to see which route this takes. CR-1 or K-3?

My valuable addition to the conversation is, "If you say you will, do."

I missed yours. What was it again?

It helps if you read what a person writes before accusing them.

Paris put the main details in her second post, the stuff that everyone wanted to know, the real details she got. A few post later she put up the details of the conversation. 90% of this was personal talk. To you this may not be useful information. To me it was. Someone has actually taken the time to really talk about this. Not just "Wait another 90 days" as everyone else who called has got. I don't know what happened when you called when you went through this process, but hearing someone does actually care at the VSC is a big thing. Probably 1 in every 100 phone calls gets someone who is a little bit helpful. The guy who provided the information is probably 1 in a million.

It may not provide any new information to someone looking in from the outside, but for those of us going through it right now it was a light at the end of the tunnel.

Please don't jump on someones back because they didn't help you, think about the people who they did help.

Please don't tell me how to think. I'm thinking of the help that could have come and have already acknowledge what little did come. And I did read each post in the thread. For the record, I responded to PM's from Parisheart, so any nasty PM's she got were not from me.

There's a lot of emotion in this process. Information is the best means of mitigating the negative emotions. A pat on the head or sympathetic ear doesn't help most people nearly as much as good information. I said my peace on all this early in the thread. I don't see how it's productive to argue about whether or how I should have expressed my opinion. I'll decide that for myself, thank you.

I'm new here, but I was under the impression that this was a forum to exchange information about processing times, RFEs, denials etc.

Starting to seem like it might be an emotional support group for people that are waiting for approvals, which is fine. If that's the case, can someone point me to the forum that relates to serious conversation related to cases being processed, or not processed. Delayed or not delayed etc.

Just a thought. If the I-130 is approved before the I-129F, does that make it a CR-1?

It's kind of moot because the petitions are generally approved together, but yes, an I-130 petition getting through NVC to the Consulate abroad would result in an immigrant visa CR1 or IR1 whether approved first or second.

An I-129F for a spouse can only result in a K3 visa whether approved first or second.

Thanks, that is actually very helpful. So I guess wont worry about it at this point.

Just a thought. If the I-130 is approved before the I-129F, does that make it a CR-1?

Based on some information received from these posts, I started getting nervous about the VSC not handling K3 cases any longer. I sent a message to my attorney concerning this. I got the following response:

"We have had some I129F petitions that were administratively closed. It basically means that we have to process it as a CR-1 visa if that happens. We need to wait to get your approval notice before we can determine which way the case will proceed. I will let you know the details as we progress. Thanks."

Not good news. I was then informed by my attorney that a CR-1 will take approx. 4 months longer, but I wouldn't have to file AOS and would be $500 cheaper (I guess this would be saving the AOS Perm. residence fee.)

So apparently all of the posts about K3 petitions at VSC have some merit. Not real sure why VSC just closed up shop on K3 petitions.

Sference, others on this forum had been hearing the same thing lately, which had us all on edge.

But today we saw an approval of I-129F for K-3 at Vermont!!

So let's wait and see, but maybe in the next weeks we might start seeing some of those petitions approved again?

It's an interesting development, to say the least though!

What I'm not clear on is why is a CR1 going to take 4 months longer.

It seems that before it used to take a while because of all the mail back and forth that was required. What's the process now? I see CR1 timelines that say "Yesterday I paid this bill. Today they generated something else, etc"...so what is it at NVC that takes a long time to do? With electronic billpay what's a reasonable timeline for NVC now?

I just spoke with someone at Vermont, and she acted like I was from Mars. She was very polite and helpful. She said that she didn't know anything about converting K3 to CR-1 at Vermont, which really confuses me now, since my lawyer sent me the email referenced above. Anyway, I'm going to take the lady at VSC's word for it, until they tell me something different.

As far as the CR-1 taking longer, I'm not an expert, but the way I read it, is that the K3 was invented because the CR1 (immigrant visa) takes so long. Thinking being, that you can enter the US on K3, and then file AOS to permanent residence.... but that's my 2 cents... take it for what it's worth.

Based on some information received from these posts, I started getting nervous about the VSC not handling K3 cases any longer. I sent a message to my attorney concerning this. I got the following response:

"We have had some I129F petitions that were administratively closed. It basically means that we have to process it as a CR-1 visa if that happens. We need to wait to get your approval notice before we can determine which way the case will proceed. I will let you know the details as we progress. Thanks."

Not good news. I was then informed by my attorney that a CR-1 will take approx. 4 months longer, but I wouldn't have to file AOS and would be $500 cheaper (I guess this would be saving the AOS Perm. residence fee.)

So apparently all of the posts about K3 petitions at VSC have some merit. Not real sure why VSC just closed up shop on K3 petitions.