Re-Entry Permit

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Hi everyone. I'm asking in behalf of a friend.

My friend is an LPR who arrived in the US last October 2012 with her 2 daughters. Daughters are aged 4 and 12. They were petitioned under the F2B category.

She plans to bring her 2 daughters back home in the Philippines because she's having a difficult time taking care of them and working at the same time.

She plans to get them Re-Entry Permits so they can stay long in the Philippines, while she will also file an F2A petition for her fiancee (who is also the bio father of her 2 daughters).

Questions: Before the 2 year re-entry permits expire, can the children apply for renewal or extension at the US Embassy Manila? Or will they have to go back to the US first, then apply for a new permit there?

She plans for the kids to go back to the US once the F2A visa of her fiancee has been issued.

Thanks for your advices.

Edited January 4, 2013 by apple21

[Leatherneck 693]

Hi everyone. I'm asking in behalf of a friend.

My friend is an LPR who arrived in the US last October 2012 with her 2 daughters. Daughters are aged 4 and 12. They were petitioned under the F2B category.

She plans to bring her 2 daughters back home in the Philippines because she's having a difficult time taking care of them and working at the same time.

She plans to get them Re-Entry Permits so they can stay long in the Philippines, while she will also file an F2A petition for her fiancee (who is also the bio father of her 2 daughters).

Questions: Before the 2 year re-entry permits expire, can the children apply for renewal or extension at the US Embassy Manila? Or will they have to go back to the US first, then apply for a new permit there?

Re-Entry Permits <---click can not be extended or renewed. The two (2) options available to your friend would be;

1. Have the children return to the U.S. then apply for new re-entry permits or,

2. Returning Resident Visa - If the children remain outside of the U.S. beyond the re-entry permits validity.

Option #2 would be a new round of immigration hassle.

A. Application to Determine Returning Resident Status - requires interview and approval.

B. Immigrant Visa - interview and approval.

C. Immigrant Visa fee

D. Medical + medical fees

E. Plus the new USCIS Immigrant Fee

She plans for the kids to go back to the US once the F2A visa of her fiancee has been issued.

The F2A visa category is for family-sponsored immigrant visa petitions that may be filed by a U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR), spouses and minor children of LPRs fall under the F2A visa category. The fiancee is not her family, her child or her spouse, a fiancee is not eligible to be petitioned under this category.

Thanks for your advices.

Edited January 4, 2013 by Leatherneck

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The F2A visa category is for family-sponsored immigrant visa petitions that may be filed by a U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR), spouses and minor children of LPRs fall under the F2A visa category. The fiancee is not her family, her child or her spouse, a fiancee is not eligible to be petitioned under this category.

We know.

I only referred to her boyfriend as "fiancee" because they are not yet married. When the kids get their re-entry permits, they will all come back here in the Philippines so they can get married, then my friend will go back to the US to file i-130, while the kids stay with their father.

[Darnell 8,478]

what about the people that are petitioning her? Can't they, instead, be her support mechanism inside the USA?

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what about the people that are petitioning her? Can't they, instead, be her support mechanism inside the USA?

My friend's sisters also has their own kids to take care of. Her father is also working. She really can't put the burden on anybody that's why her only option is to bring them home for the meantime until her soon-to-be husband gets his F2A visa. Her sisters are currently supporting their finances but she can't just sit around and not work because she needs money to file i-130 and save more in case they would need to move to a separate apartment when her BF comes in the US.