{"id":728,"date":"2012-08-25T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2016-10-20T18:12:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T00:12:59","slug":"which-visa-is-faster-k1-visa-or-k3-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Which Visa is Faster: K1 Visa or K3 Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am planning on marrying a girl from the philippines.\u00a0I was wondering if its quicker her to get her here in America if I marry her here or if I marry here there in the philippines?\u00a0Also what form do I need to fill out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our experience the K1 visa is quicker by a couple of months.\u00a0Some of our K1 visas have been approved and issued in as little as 3 months whereas K3 visas typically take 6-9 months.\u00a0Getting married does not make your case any stronger or more likely to be approved so there\u2019s no real benefit to sponsoring her as your wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am planning on marrying a girl from the philippines.\u00a0I was wondering if its quicker her to get her here in America if I marry her here or if I marry here there in the philippines?\u00a0Also what form do I need to fill out? In our experience the K1 visa is quicker by a couple &#8230; <a title=\"Which Visa is Faster: K1 Visa or K3 Visa\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=728\" aria-label=\"Read more about Which Visa is Faster: K1 Visa or K3 Visa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[184,187],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k-1-visa","category-k-3-visa","tag-k-1-visa","tag-k-3-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}