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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the CR-1, IR-1 and K-3 Marriage Visas. So these are visas for spouses of US citizens specifically in the case of the K-3 or US citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents in the case of the CR-1 and IR-1. 

So Immigrant Spouse Visas and even Non-Immigrant Spouse Visas, everything associated with US Immigration is without a doubt, I don't think there is any other way of saying this, it is just getting harder. Everything that I deal with in US Immigration, and admittedly it is less a part of my day today than at once was, but it is still part of something I do every day. We do work these cases daily and we have to deal with them and quite honestly they are getting more difficult and I don't know why. Institutionally they are more difficult. In the case of the Immigrant Spouse Visas, you have got to deal with the National Visa Center which as I have discussed in the past is something akin to a neo-Soviet quagmire, only is digitized. I mean it is just Kafkaesque the bureaucracy, where you just get into these running feedback loops where you are trying to get them documentation then they say they want more; you ask why, what is wrong with this? You never really get much of a straight answer, it is just a constant runaround. So there's more work associated with that that was never there in the past and then we are also dealing with quite honestly Department of Homeland Security could be doing things better. USCIS is processing, asking for requests for evidence that they never asked for in the past and just in my opinion seems like it is almost intentional, as if it is intentional that they are trying to make things slower or more obtuse.

So long story short, these cases are getting harder and unfortunately that is going to have to be reflected in the cost associated with processing them. I am taking as much time as I can to come up with the most reasonable, effective way of dealing with the fundamental change in the way the Immigration apparatus works and I am hoping we will come up with a reasonable and equitable way of charging folks for these services as they are quite honestly, quite cumbersome moving forward.