sister wants to come for a visit

[Asha+Joy=Love 0]

Hey all,

Hope someone here can help me out on this one... so i just received a phone call from my sister in India that she wants to visit the US later this year. She's not looking to emigrate. She's got a good job with the UN back home in India and is financially secure. She just wants a temporary tourist visa (B visa if I'm not mistaken) .. She wants me to sponsor her to make the visa process easier and faster..I'm a conditional green card holder here for little over a year have a pretty good job here as well.. I can give her all the documents that the embassy requires ( here's what they want http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/nivbvisas.html)

So my question to the wise is, as a conditional permanent resident, can I legally sponsor a relative for a 'temporary' visit as a tourist?

Hopefully someone can help me figure out this one. So far I've not seen any information that says I can't but wanted to make sure before I sent off a little packet full of my 'progress report' back home..

Thanks!

[Mononoke28 134]

There is nothing you can do that will guarrantee her getting a tourist visa. What you can do is write a letter of invitation saying that you will be financially responsible for her trip or that you're inviting her to come visit for whaterver reason. She may then show this letter to the consul the day of the interview and it might make a difference. But in all actuality what matters most is whether she can prove that she has all the reasons in the world to go back to her native country after her trip.

Diana

Edited July 28, 2008 by Mononoke28

[Mrs_S 0]

When my family applied, I had my husband (the USC) fill out the I-134. They were approved and given 10 year multiple entry visas. The form seems to allow permanent residents to sponsor relatives, so you should be fine.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-134.pdf

[Mononoke28 134]

It still doesn't guarrantee anything. I've known of people who have brought it to the interview and the consul didn't even ask or care to see it. It's always a gamble.

Diana

[mandixon 9]

If she is coming as a tourist, it is her responsibility to convince the US consulate in India that she will come back. You have NOTHING to do about that...They want to see her strong ties with India then the support that she may get from you. Actually having someone in the US is a negative factor if she cant convince them of her intention to go back.

Good luck

[Boiler 43,600]

When my family applied, I had my husband (the USC) fill out the I-134. They were approved and given 10 year multiple entry visas. The form seems to allow permanent residents to sponsor relatives, so you should be fine.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-134.pdf

No such thing as sponship for a Visitor Visa.

Better if she has assets to support herself.

[Mrs_S 0]

I was in no way implying that sponsorship alone would guarantee a visitor visa - I apologize if my statements were misconstrued. I was merely affirming that as a permanent resident the OP could submit the form.

And I believe this form is specifically for non-immigrant visas like the B-1 and F-1 and the "sponsor" takes responsibility for the visa applicant's return to their country.

[Mononoke28 134]

I was in no way implying that sponsorship alone would guarantee a visitor visa - I apologize if my statements were misconstrued. I was merely affirming that as a permanent resident the OP could submit the form.

And I believe this form is specifically for non-immigrant visas like the B-1 and F-1 and the "sponsor" takes responsibility for the visa applicant's return to their country.

See, this is one thing that baffles me about COs granting or denying tourist visas. My parents sent a letter of invitation with a notarized I-134 for two of my cousins, they were in college, no employment and were granted their visas as soon as the CO saw that my parents were US citizens and had sent them those documents. Then I did the same for another cousin of mine, I'm a US citizen and make double of what my parents made combined and the guy didn't give a flying hoot about it, so his visa was denied.

Who knows what they smoke in there 'cause I will never figure it out.

Diana

[Boiler 43,600]

Even if you were with them at the Consulate you have no way of knowing what decided one application versus another.

We can guess, but its nothing more than that.

[ShallowShrek 0]

Hey all,

Hope someone here can help me out on this one... so i just received a phone call from my sister in India that she wants to visit the US later this year. She's not looking to emigrate. She's got a good job with the UN back home in India and is financially secure. She just wants a temporary tourist visa (B visa if I'm not mistaken) .. She wants me to sponsor her to make the visa process easier and faster..I'm a conditional green card holder here for little over a year have a pretty good job here as well.. I can give her all the documents that the embassy requires ( here's what they want http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/nivbvisas.html)

So my question to the wise is, as a conditional permanent resident, can I legally sponsor a relative for a 'temporary' visit as a tourist?

Hopefully someone can help me figure out this one. So far I've not seen any information that says I can't but wanted to make sure before I sent off a little packet full of my 'progress report' back home..

Thanks!

she should go to the indian embassy and ask for a visitors visa and she should present her good job incase they think she is coming to the usa to live as an illegal and have children. its been done. she should show that india is important to her she has a house a job and she is only visiting.