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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing K-3, CR-1 and IR-1 Visas, specifically US Marriage Visas with a specific eye on US Marriage Visas for the spouses of US citizens; we are not talking about Fiancé Visas here, we are talking about Spousal Visas. One thing to first of all bear in mind with regard to the K-3 Visa, although it may be a possibility the supplemental K-3 petition may not be overly optimal especially under the present protocols of Administrative Closure wherein the underlying I-130 if it is processed out contemporaneously with or before the supplement K-3 petition, they will basically just close the K-3 so let's set the K-3 aside and deal with Immigrant Spouse Visas for the moment, what is the situation with respect to Consular processing?

Unfortunately, unlike the K-1 which we are seeing stuff move at a fairly brisk clip once the K-1 is processed out of the Department of Homeland Security, we still have to deal with, in the CR-1 and the IR-1 Visa categories we still have to deal with National Visa Center and quite honestly, the National Visa Center remains a real challenge. It is quite frustrating, in my opinion it is kind of a redundant operation. I really don't see, I mean either USCIS is redundant or NVC is redundant to my mind because they seem to ask for the same things; they scrutinize the same things even though I don't understand where NVC gets any of the authority to scrutinize. I understand where Consular Officers who are doing an interview for example for a US Visa, absolutely it is within their purview to adjudicate but this sort of gray faceless organization that just kind of adjudicates digitally which that is its own kettle of fish, the website that you have to use to deal with the National Visa Center lacks a few conveniences to be desired and also tends to again get itself into feedback loops of redundancy from time to time.  

That being said, the thing to take away from this video, yeah, once the cases are getting over here to the Embassy, Consular personnel seem to be moving those along quite well. In fact I applaud him because they are getting it done efficiently once the case is here but unfortunately as has been the case up to now, in the CR-1 and IR-1 Visa categories, NVC to my mind remains kind of the quagmire that ends up causing most of the, again delay is the wrong word because that presumes that there is a set time line, there isn't, but unfortunately NVC continues to be something that in my mind isn't really speeding up the process.