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K-3 Spouse Visa Process & ProceduresK3 vs. IR-1/CR-1 Visa for Spouse

You might as well stay with the course that you are on. From what I have been reading lately the CR-1/IR-1 visa is not taking much longer than the K-3 in most cases, maybe a month or two. The advantage of the CR-1/IR-1 is that you will have green card and be Legal Permanent Resident with out having to go through the AOS process.

As of April 2005 many applicants have reported that IR1/CR1's are faster than the K-3 option. This may change at any time though.

http://www.visajourn...mp;page=compare



Thanks. That's pretty much what I figured from looking at things. And I didn't want to mess around with the extra paperwork once she comes to the states. We're only going to be here for a year or two before I transfer back to Ukraine or Russia anyway, so I wanted to get the whole Green Card thing going right off the back.

Course, now it's all this annoying waiting.

~john

I suppose it's too late to go back to the Ukraine and file the DCF?



Yeah, once I gave up my registered address in Ukraine I lost my status as a registered foreigner. You have to have an address and register with the police department and be there for over six months for the US Consol to consider you a American Residing in Ukraine. I had been there for 3 years, so that wouldn't have been an issue, had I known before.

~john
arislan667Not TellingUkraine2006-10-13 16:26:00
K-3 Spouse Visa Process & ProceduresK3 vs. IR-1/CR-1 Visa for Spouse
My wife, Oksana, and I married while I was working in Ukraine -- was there for the past 4 years. In July I returned to the states and began filing the paperwork. Turns out I should have done everything there -- since I was officially a resident of Ukraine, I could have filed everything with the embassy and they would have approved the petition on the first day!

I received my I-130 NOA1 on Aug 25th 2006 from the California Service Center.

We had been planning on just getting the standard Immigration Visa, but now I've been reading up on the K3 Visa.

Should I go ahead an file for a K3 Visa. even though it's been almost two months since my NOA1? Will the k3 be faster? And what are the negative aspects of the K3 over the Immigration Visa? I know that the K3 doesn't give the applicant a Green Card before coming here, and it requires a future change of status.

Anyway, any suggestions or comments would be really appreciated. I have to wait a week or so anyway before I could file the I-129f for the K3 because I ran out of passport photos of my wife and she has to send me another, so I'll wait and see what people think.

Thanks,

~john
arislan667Not TellingUkraine2006-10-13 12:38:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & ProceduresDS-230 Part II support documents in Ukraine
Hello all,

My wife recently sent the DS-230 part I to the NVC. I talked to them today and they said they sent her the DS-230 Part II (why don't they just send those together???) and are requesting the following documents:

Passport copy
Police Report original
Birth Certificate original

The problem is that in Ukraine it's almost impossible to get another Birth Certificate, and my wife doesn't want to risk sending this to America. Plus, from the other forms we've read, it seems that the Birth Certificate is needed at the interview.

I was wondering if anyone else has done this process in Ukraine or at least know what to do.

Also, they didn't ask me for the Marriage Certificate (which I had included back in the earlier packages) but I've noticed that it was on the list of forms other people had to send in..

Thank You for the Help!

~John
arislan667Not TellingUkraine2007-03-29 12:22:00