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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the K-3, CR-1 and IR-1 Visa AKA the US Marriage Visas for either spouses of American citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents.

I had a question posed to me, more in a k1 context but I think it was pertinent to the overall process because quite frankly, I actually think right now especially an Immigrant Spouse Visas, the CR-1 and IR-1 Visa process, is much more of a quagmire than the K-1 process is, notably in my opinion due to the actions or lack thereof of the National Visa Center which could be in my opinion doing things a little bit more efficiently or a lot more efficiently. 

Long story short, is this hurting people's relationships? I would say yes. If it is not outright killing them as the title suggests where the relationship comes to an end because folks just can't deal with it, and I have had correspondence over the past few months not from clients who begin the process with our firm but oftentimes folks who are doing it themselves and they kind of get bogged down and then they don't understand what is going on in the process. To some extent it is nice to have, I have often found my role is often times is somebody to just vent a little bit at; maybe not a ton but just vent a little bit about how terrible the process is rather than being frustrated around one’s significant other in this case spouse. 

The long and the short of it is, yeah the process I think has had a detrimental impact on bi-national couples' relationships. I think that this could be done far more efficiently moving forward. Now yeah okay things like lockdowns and things like travel restrictions can't necessarily be blamed directly on USCIS or the National Visa Center, but as things are improving and we are putting this behind us, I think it would be good, well I would say this - I don't really have any blame exactly on the Immigration System at the moment but if things don't improve rather substantially in coming weeks and months, yeah I will probably have some blame to be directed at the Immigration System with respect to the detrimental impact they may or may not be having on underlying relationships in a K-3 Visa, CR-1 or IR-1 Visa context.