IR1/CR1 Visas: Spouses

U.S. citizens may apply for IR1 immigrant visas on behalf of their foreign national spouses by filing a Form I-130 Immigrant Petition with their local USCIS office. If the sponsoring U.S. citizen has been residing in China for longer than six months, the I-130 may be filed at the USCIS offices in Beijing or Guangzhou, depending on where in China the petitioner is living. 

Beneficiaries otherwise entitled to IR1 visa classification will be granted “conditional status” (in the form of a CR1 visa) at the time of visa issuance if the basis for immigration is a marriage to a petitioner that was entered into less than two years prior to the beneficiary’s admission to the United States as an immigrant.

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