bring a mother to US

[ikyang 1]

what are the needed documents to petition a mother to US? please help me

[john_and_marlene 162]

I-130, G-325A

Edited January 4, 2008 by john_and_marlene

[YuAndDan 153]

To visit or to immigrate?

To visit, Mother justs needs to apply for a visa at the nerest US consulate using form DS-156, or if country has a visa waiver program with the USA, she can just visit using the VWP.

If to immigrate, the application is just like filing for spouse of child (IR-1 Visa), Petitioner MUST be biological child of mother, and petitioner MUST first be a US Citizen. Petitioner files form I-130 to the USCIS, along with evidence of relationship (Copy of petitioner's Birth Cert), evidence of US Citizenship, (Copy of Petitioner's Certificate of Naturalization), G-325A for petitioner and Mother.

Edited January 4, 2008 by YuAndDan

[ikyang 1]

thank you for you replies.

yes to immigrate. my mother doesn't have a birth cert, i mean she was born in 1955 and never registered. by the way, she is in the Philippines now. will USCIS needs her birth cert? or just my birth cert to justify that she is my mother?

[YuAndDan 153]

thank you for you replies.

yes to immigrate. my mother doesn't have a birth cert, i mean she was born in 1955 and never registered. by the way, she is in the Philippines now. will USCIS needs her birth cert? or just my birth cert to justify that she is my mother?

I am talking about birth cert for the petitioner, that is son/daughter of mother, who has immigrated to USA, and has naturalized.

[*JG* 2]

thank you for you replies.

yes to immigrate. my mother doesn't have a birth cert, i mean she was born in 1955 and never registered. by the way, she is in the Philippines now. will USCIS needs her birth cert? or just my birth cert to justify that she is my mother?

I am talking about birth cert for the petitioner, that is son/daughter of mother, who has immigrated to USA, and has naturalized.

Wouldn't she still need her birth certificate for a passport?

[YuAndDan 153]

thank you for you replies.

yes to immigrate. my mother doesn't have a birth cert, i mean she was born in 1955 and never registered. by the way, she is in the Philippines now. will USCIS needs her birth cert? or just my birth cert to justify that she is my mother?

I am talking about birth cert for the petitioner, that is son/daughter of mother, who has immigrated to USA, and has naturalized.

Wouldn't she still need her birth certificate for a passport?

There are other ways to prove citizenship, such as national ID, so mother probably will not need birth cert to get MNL passport.

However for the visa interview:

Birth Certificates

Available. A certified copy of a birth registration can be obtained from the local civil registrar at the place of birth. Local Civil Registrar records are often incomplete and it is, therefore, necessary to accept baptismal certificates. If they too are unobtainable, then affidavits from two persons who have personal knowledge of the birth are acceptable.

Frequently, certificates for births occurring since 1946 may also be obtained from the National Census and Statistics Office (NCSO), Office of the Civil Registrar-General, Magsaysay Blvd., Santa Mesa, Metro Manila, Philippines. Certificates of birth before 1946 are maintained at the National Archives Division at T.M. Kalaw St., Ermita, Manila. Issuance of a birth certificate takes approximately three to four working days, for which there may be a fee, plus an additional fee if issuance is to take place within 24 hours, or if the document is to be printed on special security paper.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reciproc...ocity_3650.html

[*JG* 2]

My MIL had a BC issue in Jamaica when trying to send her orphaned grandson to school for the first time. He was 8 and had not been registered. It was relatively simple, whatever she ended up doing. He'd never been baptised, so maybe they went with that 2 letter thing.

[ikyang 1]

thanks for your replies.

i will advise my mother to go ahead and get her passport done without a birth cert and will try to bring in other docs. would that be possible right?

If i understand this right, we dont need mother's birth to support the I-130 right? only the petitioner's birth cert. and we can present other docs during the interview if birth cert is absent. am i right?

[Chris Parker 11]

I-130, G-325A

No G-325A actually.

If to immigrate, the application is just like filing for spouse of child (IR-1 Visa), Petitioner MUST be biological child of mother, and petitioner MUST first be a US Citizen. Petitioner files form I-130 to the USCIS, along with evidence of relationship (Copy of petitioner's Birth Cert), evidence of US Citizenship, (Copy of Petitioner's Certificate of Naturalization), G-325A for petitioner and Mother.

Can petition for step-parents too.