Can AOS Fiancee's parents visit on B-2?

[Dvm085 0]

Hello Everyone! Before my question I wanted to say how grateful I am to this site and all the members. It has helped me so much throughout this whole process! Thank you!

I was wondering if you can share your thoughts on our situation. I am a US Citizen and my fiancée is currently at the adjustment of status phase here in the US. In fact, we have just had a biometrics appointment last week.

My fiancee's parents are living in her home country (Kazakhstan) and would like to temporaritly visit us here to see how their daughter is fairing. Now it is possible that in the future they would be looking into immigrating permanently once my fiancée has a green card, which I do not want to jeopardize in case they get a denial now. Being completely unfamiliar with B-2 process and how it might interplay with AOS, I was hoping someone might have had similar predicament.

My main questions are: do I or my fiancée need to send any invitation to them and would it help or hurt? Also, in case they are denied would they have difficulties in the future once my fiancée does decide to bring them over on a permanent basis? Any denial is kinda bad right?

Her parents can technically prove strong ties to Kazakhstan. They have property and decent employment. I have no idea how hard it is nowadays to get a visitor’s visa to US, since I personally emigrated in the 90's, which was pretty tough (at least for post-soviet bloc countries). As I understand it, the consul might look at it favorably that my fiancée is here and they have a valid excuse to visit on a temporary basis, plus in the future she would be able to easily bring them over anyways.

On the other hand, it does ring the bell to the immigration officer that they might want to stay in US permanently because of their daughter's future permanent residency status, which in itself is also a bit counter intuitive since they would be able to do it in a few years legally anyway. I guess I am just trying to understand the psyche of an immigration officer and the consequences of a denial, since everything is being done by the book and I personally see nothing that might lead to a denial at least in my head. In case this could pose a problem we will just wait until my fiancée gets a green card.

Thank you for reading and please let me know if you have any thoughts on this.

[aussie_jason 195]

As long as they can prove strong social and economic ties to Kazakhstan they should be fine - http://kazakhstan.usembassy.gov/niv.html

[Pitaya 2,576]

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[KayDeeCee 4,892]

~ Moved from AOS from Family Based Visas to Tourist Visas - topic about parents filing for tourist visas, not AOS process ~

[Cathi 5,616]

you fiance cannot file an immigrant visa on their behalf until he is a citizen

[ali.cha 18]

I'm not sure if your fiancée can send an invitation to her parents... It definitely help parents to get visa, but.... Depends on her status there. If she's an American citizen/resident's wife or studying with F1 visa so parents can get easily visas for 5 years. If she has an unconfirmed status so it makes harder situation. Everyone has different situation