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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by davidw on Monday August 11, 2014 @02:52AM (#8162243)
Not job related, but family related: if you're married, here in Italy, you can stay, end of story. Effective immediately.

In the US, the process is something like 6 months, although apparently there was/is a backlog, and they were taking something like a year to process applications for spouses.

It gives you an idea of how screwed up the system is.

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by wyclif on Monday August 11, 2014 @04:21AM (#8162430)
It doesn't take a year for spouses through USCIS. More like a few months.
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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by amberruth on Monday August 11, 2014 @06:07AM (#8162691)
I'm an American have been trying to live in the US with my spouse for over a year so I can go back to school. I'm still waiting and unsure if we can even get in. Kafka-esque and nightmare can hardly describe the feeling.
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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by Schweigi on Monday August 11, 2014 @06:55AM (#8162767)
K1/IR1/CR1 processing times are still around 6-8 months. A nightmare if a couple just got married or is going to and need to live apart during this time. Additionally the process is not straight forward and a lot of people will need help from a lawyer which makes it expensive.
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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by davidw on Monday August 11, 2014 @08:54AM (#8163028)
This NYTimes article says that, in some cases, it does:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/program-benefiting-some...

They don't seem like edge cases, either, they just hit a slow spot in their processing.

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by pinars on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @01:32AM (#8166668)
(Semi-related) I'm an L-1A spouse. It took my work application 10 months to get processed, when the USCIS' own regulation stated that the it should have been closed in 90 days.

You call them, ask them, plead with them. Nothing. "Your application is in the system and is getting processed."

Nine months into it, it turned out that they lost my digital picture taken at a USCIS facility. How in this day and age one loses digital pictures is beyond me.

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