My wife is pregnant and she wants to bring her sisters from Pakistan here.

[Boiler 43,401]

I love how everybody says that "helping with the baby" is considered work.. I guess I need to start asking for money every time I do something nice about my brother/sister etc..

Imagine your family comes over and they are not allowed to freaken touch the baby or change its diaper cause its considered work.. that just sounds crazy to me. It's like going over to your sister for dinner and helping with the dishes.. its not work.. work is doing something for profit..

from what i've seen on lawyer websites etc "volunteering" is allowed on a tourist visa.. I would consider this volunteering and not "work" ..

helping without profit = volunteering = not work on a tourist visa = legal.

Amusing but wrong.

Once she is a US Citizen she can sponsor her sister to immigrate.

[Mollie09 1,543]

I love how everybody says that "helping with the baby" is considered work.. I guess I need to start asking for money every time I do something nice about my brother/sister etc..

Imagine your family comes over and they are not allowed to freaken touch the baby or change its diaper cause its considered work.. that just sounds crazy to me. It's like going over to your sister for dinner and helping with the dishes.. its not work.. work is doing something for profit..

from what i've seen on lawyer websites etc "volunteering" is allowed on a tourist visa.. I would consider this volunteering and not "work" ..

helping without profit = volunteering = not work on a tourist visa = legal.

Doing the work a babysitter or nanny would do is not the same thing as helping out sometimes.

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Maybe those family members should honestly declare to the CBP officer that they are coming over to help out with new born when ask for the purpose of the trip.

Roll the dice to see if they will be let in or not.

[alicia98981 128]

You guys can be unreasonably cruel sometimes when people simply ask questions and you've been here long enough to know the answer. To the OP, as several have suggested, your wife's sister's best option is to apply for a visitor visa and provide proof that she will return to Pakistan. "Helping out" with a baby by US Immigration policy would and could technically be considered "working " which would be cause for denial in most if not all cases. While I'm not telling you to break the law, read the boards and search the official government website for acceptable reasons to get a B2 visa. Good luck with your situation. I think your question has been answered several times now.

[sebastianshaw 97]

Maybe those family members should honestly declare to the CBP officer that they are coming over to help out with new born when ask for the purpose of the trip.

Roll the dice to see if they will be let in or not.

[Snorlux 58]

You guys can be unreasonably cruel sometimes when people simply ask questions and you've been here long enough to know the answer. To the OP, as several have suggested, your wife's sister's best option is to apply for a visitor visa and provide proof that she will return to Pakistan. "Helping out" with a baby by US Immigration policy would and could technically be considered "working " which would be cause for denial in most if not all cases. While I'm not telling you to break the law, read the boards and search the official government website for acceptable reasons to get a B2 visa. Good luck with your situation. I think your question has been answered several times now.

I second that, even better, call the USCIS (as an anonymous caller if you don't want to give them any details) and just ask what would be the best case scenario to bring them over.. You can just say we want to help my wife's sister to come over and see the baby and help my wife a little bit with the baby, what do we need to do and what kind of visa will she need?

That way you will probably get the best reply as to whether its possible and what kind of visa will she need

[IcezMan_IcezLady 582]

if your mother-in-law is there, I believe she will have a better chance of coming to visit than your sister-in-law.

Regardless, your sister-in-law will apply for tourist visa.. her purpose is to visit her pregnant sister period.

[shayy17 3]

Isn't there some sort of visa for au pairs? That may be something the OP could look into as well

Edited December 15, 2016 by shayy17

[JFH 12,189]

I love how everybody says that "helping with the baby" is considered work.. I guess I need to start asking for money every time I do something nice about my brother/sister etc..

Imagine your family comes over and they are not allowed to freaken touch the baby or change its diaper cause its considered work.. that just sounds crazy to me. It's like going over to your sister for dinner and helping with the dishes.. its not work.. work is doing something for profit..

from what i've seen on lawyer websites etc "volunteering" is allowed on a tourist visa.. I would consider this volunteering and not "work" ..

helping without profit = volunteering = not work on a tourist visa = legal.

The definition of "volunteering" for those without work authorisation (e.g. tourists and K-1s, for example) is work that a person would not normally expect to be paid for. Helping care for abandoned animals in a shelter, volunteering in a community kitchen or food bank to help those less fortunate, that kind of thing. The type of work that people do purely altruistically and not for financial reward. Babysitters and day care workers do the job to be paid. It doesn't matter if the sisters will be paid or not, it's the type of work that determines whether it falls under the rules of volunteering. We didn't make the rules. We just have to follow them.

Changing a diaper here and there, taking the baby for a walk, playing with the baby, giving the baby a bottle once in a while is not work. But caring for the baby on a regular basis and/or for an extended period to enable the mother to do something else away from the home (go to work, go shopping, go to a gym) is considered work.

Edited December 15, 2016 by JFH

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Isn't there some sort of visa for au pairs? That may be something the OP could look into as well

Yes, there is a au pair type of visa - J1 visa.

But OP has to pay the prevailing wage, health insurance.. etc which is not the 'free help' he or his wife looking for.

[JFH 12,189]

Isn't there some sort of visa for au pairs? That may be something the OP could look into as well

J-1 visa but the placement has to go through a recognised agency.

[Roel 7,191]

I second that, even better, call the USCIS (as an anonymous caller if you don't want to give them any details) and just ask what would be the best case scenario to bring them over.. You can just say we want to help my wife's sister to come over and see the baby and help my wife a little bit with the baby, what do we need to do and what kind of visa will she need?

That way you will probably get the best reply as to whether its possible and what kind of visa will she need

Dont you understand that right now, until the wife is still PR, there is NOTHING they can do to bring them over? Like, absolutely nothing? Once she is a citizen she can go on about sponsoring them.

If they want to come to visit - and just visit - they need to apply for the tourist visa on their OWN.

This is something I really don't like about the VJ. People always try to coat everything in sugar and tell people only the good news when obviously some things, sometimes, are not that pretty and different OPs need to hear the harsh truth. But nooo, some forum users have to be so politically correct! lol.

OP, you got your answer. Tourist visa or nothing. And they can't babysit.

[Jojo92122 1,924]

It's cruel to suggest to people that they can use a visitor visa to come and help with a baby.

For those who think "volunteering" means "help without profit," then I highly suggest using Google to search "USCIS volunteering visitor visa." The law disagrees with your definition because visitor visa holders are not permitted to do any work that is normally paid. People usually pay for child care, and it seems that is the OP's intent in bringing over the sister-in-law. It's not permitted for her to "volunteer" to care for the baby on a visitor visa.

Then use Google to search "visitor visa pregnancy help daughter/sister."

Instead of making stuff up, try to do a little bit of research before posting your opinions as facts.

Edited December 16, 2016 by Jojo92122

[mshussain1920 1]

Apply as a Tourist B1/B2, make sure to send her Estimated Date of Delivery letter signed by your doctor. FYI: Its much easier to get one's mother in law.

[Snorlux 58]

Dont you understand that right now, until the wife is still PR, there is NOTHING they can do to bring them over? Like, absolutely nothing? Once she is a citizen she can go on about sponsoring them.

If they want to come to visit - and just visit - they need to apply for the tourist visa on their OWN.

This is something I really don't like about the VJ. People always try to coat everything in sugar and tell people only the good news when obviously some things, sometimes, are not that pretty and different OPs need to hear the harsh truth. But nooo, some forum users have to be so politically correct! lol.

OP, you got your answer. Tourist visa or nothing. And they can't babysit.

Umm who said anything about sponsoring ??????

I simply said, call USCIS and ask them what kind of visa they should be apply for, be it B1, B2 or w/e else. Just to get an opinion from USCIS about how to move forward. I never said anything about sponsorship etc. And yes they would do it on their own, this doesn't stop the people in the US from trying to help them by providing the best information.