Dirar

I applied for I-130 on July 8 and K-3 on July 15.
Received both approvals this week.

Anybody knows how long it takes for both to get to the embassy?

I heard that if you apply for K-3 the I-130 paper does not get sent to
the consulate, and your only choice is to apply for AOS. Does anybody
have experience wether this is correct?

Mrtravel

Not correct... people have reported the getting CR-1 visas at the
embassy, even though they also filed I-129F for K-1. Due to the slowness
of I29F processing for the K-3, I don't think that is a rare occurrence.

Dirar wrote:
    >
    > I applied for I-130 on July 8 and K-3 on July 15.
    > Received both approvals this week.
    >
    > Anybody knows how long it takes for both to get to the embassy?
    >
    > I heard that if you apply for K-3 the I-130 paper does not get sent to
    > the consulate, and your only choice is to apply for AOS. Does anybody
    > have experience wether this is correct?

bba1vol

what is a cr1 visa

Mrtravel

A visa for a spouse when married less than 2 years.
At the POE, the spouse will get Permanent Resident status with
conditions. 90 days short of 2 years later, they can apply for removal
of conditions by filing I-751.

[email protected] wrote:
    >
    > what is a cr1 visa

Richard Sun

We were in a similar sort of situation where our I-130 was approved
while we were in the K-3 visa process, all I can say is that if we had
waited, my wife still wouldn't have her visa. From what I understand
your K-3 visa will get continued to process until the I-130 is in the
overseas consulates hands. Remember that Packet #3 for the I-130 is
sent by the NVC, not my the overseas consulate. So the overseas
consulate doesn't get your information until they are ready to send
Packet #4. While the K-3 visa, both Packet #3 and Packet #4 are the
overseas consulates responsibility, so there's still some chance that
your K-3 visa would beat the IR-1 visa stuff.

Here's our current time line:

http://www.richsun.com/20020227.html