James2025

In my opinion you’re better to do a CR1 visa. A K-1 is a crapshoot these days, per the time lines on USCIS the CR1 is taking a little longer not by much. the current processing time for the CR1 start to finish is just under 2 years. My wife and I just finished the entire process, she is now in the USA with me. Once you do get married and you have your marriage certificate in hand you want to file with USCIS right away. USCIS processes files in order to the posting date. During the waiting time you can keep uploading more marriage evidence to help your case. In our case I kept uploading huge amounts of evidence every four months. Mainly financial documents, plane tickets, places we stayed. Here is something else, if you do go with a CR1 if your spouse enters the USA prior to your 2 year anniversary of marriage he will get a 2 year provisional green card, just before the 2 year anniversary of the green card you will need to apply for a 10 year one. If he enters one day after your 2 year anniversary he will get a 10 year green card. Food for thought.

I thought I would chime into this considering we just were approved with USCIS For starters the processing times don't mean anything. The timer can and will countdown to taking longer than expected a dozen times with nothing happening. My case, standalone I-130 spouse living abroad, PD was Nov 28, 2023, actively being reviewed Jan 2, 2024, Approved March 14th, 2025, Transferred to NVC March 16th NVC sent letter March 21 to make online account. Over the 16 months of waiting, I kept uploading more evidence. My progress tab counted down to zero 5 times. Even on the day of the approval notice, my progress tab showed 5 months. From start to finish it looks like it will take over two years for this process. My advice is to keep uploading supporting documents as time goes on. I was advised the main thing they look at is finical documents, in my case I uploaded 18 months of visa statements, a ton of plan tickets, Airbnb stays, bank wires, lease agreement, new car purchase and so forth. You want to make their job easy, make it so no one could say it is not a valid marriage.