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How Would You Change Processing of American Marriage Visas?

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing well, "how would you change the US Marriage Visa Process Ben? We are talking about K-3 Visas and CR-1 Visas and IR-1 Visas. Let's put K-3s aside, I did a video on K-1s, I probably should have thrown K-3s in there. K-3s don't process the same way as the CR-1 or the IR-1 Visa. As we have discussed in many videos, oftentimes they will be administratively closed and then in the cases if they are processed through, they process much akin to the way that the K-1 Visa processes, so let's set that one aside. 

Now we are talking about IR-1 and CR-1 Visas, just Immigrant Spouse Visas. The question posed, "how would I change that?" Well first thing I would do if I could is destroy NVC for all time, the National Visa Center, and I don't mean that, I mean that in hyperbole, metaphorically, I am not advocating that anybody go after the National Visa Center. What I am trying to say is, if it were me and I was looking at the process, I still to this day do not understand NVC at all. I don't get why it is necessary. As I said in the K-1 video, the big thing that I would do is consolidate the overall process and if it is the immediate relative of an American citizen especially, although I think a strong argument could be made that this should also apply to immediate relatives of Permanent Residents as well, it is my opinion that those cases should be fully processed abroad. Now with respect to CR-1 and IR-1 Visas, those folks do enter the United States with Green Card status so I am not saying that extra scrutiny might not be a good thing but maybe bring a DHS component into the Department of State to be able to provide some backup on that. We saw that actually, they talked about this when Rex Tillerson was the Secretary of State. I think I did videos on it at the time. They were trying to come up with some ways of sort of consolidating DHS and DOS. It really never came of anything. I think ultimately what is going to happen is you are going to have to see, it is going to have to change by law. Congress is going to have to pass a law to change it, to see any of these major changes. But I have got to tell you, a big one for me would be consolidate it down, I don't understand the redundancy between DHS and DOS. Just make it all DOS. That would basically in my opinion be a way to deal with it but again, at the end of the day nobody really listens to me and we are currently dealing with the US Marriage Visa Process as it is.