So next question is should I file my spousal visa at the Embassy or the
United States you know that's a complicated question reason being is
because there's only 24 international USCIS offices at embassies around the
world so one that's not very many and two you
must meet the requirements to file in that particular country and at that
international USCIS office one of those requirements is that you're either a
permanent resident of that country or citizen you've been there at least six
months and from our experience most you know most visas to a country usually
don't last more than 90 days maybe six months max so the first thing is you
have to find out if you're even eligible find out if the US Embassy there even
has an international USCIS office but as it's been our experience that it's
probably makes more sense to file with the USCIS they process millions of
petitions where as you look at some of the international USCIS offices they may
only process a few in a year they just don't have a lot of experience with
we've processed quite a few direct consular filing cases here RapidVisa
and it's been a mixed results we've had some take over a year take much longer
than it normally does we've had a couple cases that you know only took four to
six months which wasn't too bad but we've had some embassies completely
screwed up and it was like they didn't even know what the process was so yeah I
you know i would add to it you got to ask yourself what's the upside if you're
living in you know if you're living in a country and and you you've been there
for a little while and that's where you met your spouse of course and now you
want to come back it's tempting to think well I live 20 miles from the embassy
isn't it easier doesn't it make more sense to be applied directly to the
embassy and the answer is really written directly on
the CIS website themselves they say and you could call us if you want the
reference and we can give you a link to their their site they say there's no
time difference so it's not gonna speed anything up maybe it saves you a little
postage you know you're gonna mail it because you never get to hand-deliver
these things right it's almost always men maybe you get to mail it to the same
town you're in instead of mailing it to the United States and say that would be
the only benefit because the government themselves say it does not speed it up
and our experience is it typically slows it down or it's a little bit of an
irregular process because you're dealing with now some a doubt the embassy who
hasn't me and other jobs dealing with tourists who lost their visa and all
these other things and now on top of that they got it mess around with your
with your spousal visa where the people you send that to in the United States
they're doing it all day eight hours a day that's all they're doing they're
experts and they're gonna get it in and out in and out in and out and so our
experience is there's really other than a few dollars postage there's absolutely
no advantage or any reason under any circumstance we would react recommend
direct consular filing now if you feel strong about you want to do it we'll do
that for you it's certainly something we offer but you would be doing it really
against our advice just because again CIS has a well-honed well-worn process
of getting these things through the system the Embassy's by their very
nature it's not what they normally deal with and so that's why we just we just
don't recommend it it's just no upside if there was some upside to it
sure other than saving a few bucks postage we've never there is no website.