http://www.visacoach.com/fiance-vs-sp... When bringing your partner to live with you in the United States, you have two choices and they both include marriage, either apply for a K1 Fiance Visa with plans to marry after arrival in the USA, or marry first then apply for CR1 Spouse Visa. Which is better depends on your priorities for speed, cost, and employment. The Fiance visa allows you to start your life together as sooner, about 7 months faster. The spouse allows you to save $1000 in fees, allows your fiance to have wedding in home country in front of family and friends, and provides authorization to work immediately on arrival to the USA.
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When bringing your partner to live with you in the United States, you have two choices and they both include marriage. Sorry, but US immigration does not offer a boy or girlfriend visas.

Lets start by comparing the K-1 and the CR-1. First of all, the K-1 Visa is a Fiancee Visa. You are both free to marry but not married. This visa allows your foreign fiancee to enter the USA for up to ninety days. If she or he marries you within those ninety days, your new spouse is then eligible to apply for permanent residency and to stay in the USA and to obtain her or his green card.

The Spouse Visa, CR-1 Visa allows your foreign spouse, who you already married, to enter the United States and permanent residency is already pre-approved. Actually there are two kinds of spouse visa, the CR1 and the IR1. The only difference is how long you are married on the day you apply. If married less than two years your spouse gets a CR1 visa. If married longer, your spouse gets an IR1.

Since most of my married clients are newlyweds, I will just refer to CR1 visas, but the process is the same for IR1's also.

Spouse or fiance visas are similar, but which is better for you, depends on your priorities. The three main considerations most couples have are speed, cost, and how early the spouse can work in the USA. For Overall Speed, the fiance visa is about 7 months faster. For Economy the spouse visa costs about a thousand dollars less. For Permission to start work in USA: the spouse visa allows your spouse to work immediately, even on day of arrival, while normally
on a Fiance Visa your new spouse needs about 5 months to start work.

The process for a K-1 Fiancee Visa is as follows. First of all, you have to have met face to face.
This does not count web cams or Skype or telephone calls. This means the two of you, being physically in the same space, meeting each other, seeing each other, breathing the same air. That's the basic eligibility requirement.

Then, once you have met, you decide you want to marry and are engaged you submit a fairly substantial application to USCIS, that's Homeland Security. The application we submit is the "Front Loaded" petition package that VisaCoach is known for.

Homeland security reviews the petition and approves (their part) then passes the case on to the US Department of State. The Department of State operates our consulates around the world.
They'll send your case to the consulate that's closest to your fiancee. The consulate asks your fiance in for a screening interview and that is when the visa is approved or denied. visa. Once the Visa is granted, the visa is good for six months for your fiance to travel to the USA. Once here, your fiancee has ninety days, to look over the situation, and get married to you.

After the wedding there is one final step, your spouse's K1 visa is expiring, for permission for your new spouse to remain permanently in the USA you need apply for "Adjustment of Status."
Your spouse is "adjusting" her or his status from a temporary (90 day) visitor to a Lawful Permanent Resident.

In the case of a Spouse visa, you first marry your foreign partner. You then prepare and submit the spouse visa application to Homeland Security. After USCIS approval, they pass on your case to the Department of State, to their National Visa Center, NVC located in New Hampshire.

Unlike a Fiance Visa, where your case is only briefly handled by NVC, and relatively quickly sent overseas for further processing,