Wow, kick a little salt into the wound would you?
Just a reminder most of the folks in the I601 forum have been married longer than K visa folks have even known each other, and just another reminder processing an I601 is "the legal way" to bring a family member here so you can dismount your horse now.
Lengthy marriages and US Citizen children are involved in these relationships.
I am not sure the folks in this forum appreciate your "coulda, shoulda, woulda judgement's".
These people met in person in unique circumstances, and then courted fell in love and married the old school way via introduction from mutual friends, work associates or social encounters.
Maybe we think think things like "wow I would never bring a total stranger I met online that I know nothing about home to meet my family", for after all you could be importing a virtual person and total stranger with the tremendous potential things could go badly. And as a matter of fact you have no collateral evidence of the persons life or character before you bring them here other than some paperwork they have created for the K process. So perhaps the "risk" factor in the K relationship is even higher than the i601 situations where the immigration process has gone awry.
BUT largely and graciously we restrain ourselves from going over to the K forum to kick salt in the wounds when these relationships unravel, which happens about once a week from my unofficial statistics.
Good luck with your K process hopefully you will not end up in our AP forum to extend your "lengthy and expensive process"... goodness what are the top waiting times over there now ... 5 months? How you suffer.
hey thnks for your reply...they told me anywhere between 4 -12 weeks...but just wanted to see if anyone from montreal went thrugh AP ..and how long they waited
For others reading this post, so far only cases being adjudicated in the States even get a receipt (sometimes) and so far from feed back here on the site and other forums, the actual case "tracking" info on the website for I601 is quite sketchy.
Some overseas USCIS offices post case status on the DOS websites, but not many.