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It doesn't take a year for spouses through USCIS. More like a few months.
by wyclif 12y ago
It doesn't take a year for spouses through USCIS. More like a few months.
- amberruth 12y agoI'm an American have been trying to live in the US with my spouse for over a year so I can go back to school. I'm still waiting and unsure if we can even get in. Kafka-esque and nightmare can hardly describe the feeling.
- Schweigi 12y agoK1/IR1/CR1 processing times are still around 6-8 months. A nightmare if a couple just got married or is going to and need to live apart during this time. Additionally the process is not straight forward and a lot of people will need help from a lawyer which makes it expensive.
- davidw 12y agoThis NYTimes article says that, in some cases, it does: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/program-benefiting-some-immigrants-extends-visa-wait-for-others.html?hp&_r=3 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/program-benefiting-some... They don't seem like edge cases, either, they just hit a slow spot in their processing.
- pinars 12y ago(Semi-related) I'm an L-1A spouse. It took my work application 10 months to get processed, when the USCIS' own regulation stated that the it should have been closed in 90 days. You call them, ask them, plead with them. Nothing. "Your application is in the system and is getting processed." Nine months into it, it turned out that they lost my digital picture taken at a USCIS facility. How in this day and age one loses digital pictures is beyond me.