Originally Posted by
newacct
You are talking about the wait for a visa number to become available in family preference categories or employment categories. However, the OP is either applying for a fiancé visa or a spousal visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen, which is in the Immediate Relative category. There is never a "wait" for visa numbers for these.
No I'm talking about a spouse VISA taking a lot of time, yes some of those others are quite lengthy too.. they are NOT automatic... and the wait time is significant... I was born and raised in the USA... my wife was European.. yet it took a few YEARS and thousands of dollars... and it would have taken many more years if I did not know the people I knew that was able to get it taken care of as fast as they did. Yes they fastracked it all the way to the top dog. I won't say who was involved...but only a couple people could pull the strings these people did.
I also have a good friend that spent the last 10 years fighting to get his wife a green card, he is a naturalized US citizen and was before they were married... using an immigrations attorney... unsuccessfully. THey also made it clear after the appeals.. she was never going to get one either. They have a child born here, and she has no arrest history anywhere.
There is the propaganda put out to appease certain special interest groups......and then there is what really happens.... they are very differnt things.
And in my case it wasn't a case of ineptitude in one office.....because I dealt with two different INS offices in two different states and the people working in both were equally useless. And thats not just the flunkies at the counter....but their managers and all the way to the top (the high level people who helped me said this).
Another wealthy immigrant neighbor dealt with this a few years ago...took them over 4 years, another European wife, son US Citizen....they won't say exact numbers but we are talking well over $50,000 in fees to get it through that quick.