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twofromtunja   0

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Has anyone ever applied for their parents to come on an immigrant visa and then request to change it to a tourist visa once they arrive in the U.S.A.? My USC wife's parents were denied (once, so far) for a tourist visa, but we want them to be able to visit us here. We know that we could bring them on an immigrant visa, but they're not sure they want to actually immigrate.

Thoughts?

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Has anyone ever applied for their parents to come on an immigrant visa and then request to change it to a tourist visa once they arrive in the U.S.A.? My USC wife's parents were denied (once, so far) for a tourist visa, but we want them to be able to visit us here. We know that we could bring them on an immigrant visa, but they're not sure they want to actually immigrate.

Thoughts?

Goodness what a question. I suppose it is feasible but think of the stress and cost of applying.

At the Embassy they may ask if they are going to live in the USA permanently and then at the POE. How would they answer?

They may well ask for proof of health insurance, where they are going to live etc etc.

I may be wrong but it is possible but at some stage they would have to answer some very difficult questions.

Hope that helps, I am sure others will comment!

Richard

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Has anyone ever applied for their parents to come on an immigrant visa and then request to change it to a tourist visa once they arrive in the U.S.A.? My USC wife's parents were denied (once, so far) for a tourist visa, but we want them to be able to visit us here. We know that we could bring them on an immigrant visa, but they're not sure they want to actually immigrate.

Thoughts?

I only know of one person who was able to pull this off and I'm not sure if it's doable or if they just had a special case. The story goes as this, he's a naturalized US citizen and his mother came to the US on an immigrant visa. She was here for almost a year, went back to Colombia for a few months and then came back for another few months. She really did not like it here one bit so he went to the US embassy in Bogotá with her to explain their case and they gave her a US tourist visa without any issues, meaning she's no longer a permanent resident. Now, that's the story I got from them a few years back so I don't know exactly what they had to do, if anything.

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We are thinking of doing the same trip as my MIL can't get a tourist visa from PI.

Doesn't cost that much. About 1K for the process and medical.

K1 denied, K3/K4, CR-1/CR-2, AOS, ROC, Adoption, US citizenship and dual citizenship

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I only know of one person who was able to pull this off and I'm not sure if it's doable or if they just had a special case. The story goes as this, he's a naturalized US citizen and his mother came to the US on an immigrant visa. She was here for almost a year, went back to Colombia for a few months and then came back for another few months. She really did not like it here one bit so he went to the US embassy in Bogotá with her to explain their case and they gave her a US tourist visa without any issues, meaning she's no longer a permanent resident. Now, that's the story I got from them a few years back so I don't know exactly what they had to do, if anything.

Diana

I've heard of this happening, but I haven't heard any specifics. I'm thinking that if the CO won't give a tourist visa because they are afraid that someone might overstay and really intends to immigrate, why wouldn't they say, "oh, you don't want to immigrate but would like to visit? - ok". Seems too simple, which is why I'm wary that there's a problem.

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If they've been denied a tourist visa and you intend to go the immigrant visa route without them actually being PRs, you do realize they are going to lose that GC quite quickly too?

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If they've been denied a tourist visa and you intend to go the immigrant visa route without them actually being PRs, you do realize they are going to lose that GC quite quickly too?

They don't want a green card - they want a tourist visa. Yes, I realize that they'll lose the PR status, but they don't want it - they only want to visit. Hence, the idea of changing to a tourist visa.

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They don't want a green card - they want a tourist visa. Yes, I realize that they'll lose the PR status, but they don't want it - they only want to visit. Hence, the idea of changing to a tourist visa.

You can not change to a Tourist Visa.

You could immigrate, relinquish your status, apply to immigrate again as many times as you want to.

As a immigrant then you have other issues, medical insurance and taxes being the obvious one. You will not get travel insurance if you are immigrating.

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