Q: What would be the best way to get an inmigrant visa for my future wife, I am US citizen
In twoo weks will meet together for 15 days and we have 3 months mail connection. She lives in Venezuela
A:
There are two general methods for sponsoring your fiancé/spouse. The first is a K visa. With the K visa you can bring your fiancé or your wife to the USA. This means you can marry her in her country and she immigrates as your wife or you can bring her her as your fiancé and you can marry her here within 90 days or her arrival. With a K visa she will adjust - receive her LPR status - inside the USA.
If you marry overseas your wife can adjust through consulate processing. This means she receives her green card at the US consulate in her country and arrives here as an LPR.
The final method is that you marry in the USA and your wife adjusts status here. This requires that your wife is already in the USA.
The time frames for each method vary depending on how back logged the system is and the time of year - for instance processing slows down this time of year because of the holidays. Generally my experience is that to marry your fiancé in her country and bring her her on a K visa for a spouse is the quickest. Her filing for an immigrant visa as a spouse may be equally fast.
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