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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing K-1 Fiancé Visas. We are specifically discussing this in the context of the "cadence" of the process. Yeah K-1's at one time were substantially faster than Immigrant Spouse Visas in most cases, this is even factoring the local filing days and local filers were limited by some jurisdictional issues. But yeah the K-1, the cadence of the K-1, the reason I am bringing this up so sort of since the end of the Trump Administration and then we went into COVID, especially on the Department of Homeland Security side K-1's have kind of slowed down a little bit. I have kind of noticed some maybe kind of creeping back up into kind of what we were used to before but hard to say, it is kind of hit and miss, but the reason I want to compare the cadence if you will is the K-1 has a very different backend process then the Immigrant Spouse Visas, the CR-1 or the IR-1 for example insofar as the K-1 doesn't deal with NVC, National Visa Center in the same way Immigrant Spouse Visa cases do, it effectively bypasses that. Then you are over here dealing direct with the Embassy and when people deal with that they are, well some people get rather confused because if you haven't dealt with it before it's kind of convoluted. For a first timer you can you can really get kind of caught in the high weeds insofar as you don't really know exactly what step you are on, what you are supposed to be doing. We have been doing it 15 years, we are kind of used to it but the long and the short of it is it really has a different patter to it. The Immigrant Spouse Visas that go through NVC, that place is a quagmire; you go back and forth with those folks and then finally they set an interview date. Okay there's an interview date, it is usually some time out into the future. K-1s can bounce in pretty fast and you can sometimes get them out pretty fast; sometimes they bounce in and it takes quite a while to get them out, so again, it's definitely circumstantially dependent. 

But the thing to take away from this video is, I hesitate to call the K-1s faster at the moment, I don't think that's the right terminology but in some cases, I stress some, especially involving certain third country nationals folks not from Thailand etc., the K-1 may actually be a bit of a smoother process for lack of a better term.