Wife just got Green Card, how to bring her family?

[tocca2015 24]

No, he cannot get his green card and head right back to Argentina, he would lose his GC status. You have to be in the US for 5 continuous years before you can apply for citizenship (3 under spousal GC), he can take short trips here and there to visit of course, but he must LIVE in the US, file taxes etc...

[hari29 24]

I know there is no way my father in law is leaving his new born baby for 6 years while he waits it out in the states.

Or is there a way he can just come and get his green card and then wait in Argentina until he can apply for citizenship? My assumption is that for citizenship you have to be physically present those 5 years right?

As part of green card requirements you are supposed to live and work in USA. You cannot be outside USA for longer periods in a calender year (>6 months). If you do, then you risk abandoning your green card. So in essence, he has to stay in USA for atleast 6 months and one day a year for five years and file taxes (even if you dont earn anything) for all the years to make it to citizenship. Please google "preserve permanant residency in USA".

[CMBx3 3]

Someone clear me up on this please..

If you received your gc through marriage to a lpr and shortly after you get your gc your spouse takes oath and becomes a citizen. Would you be able to apply for citizenship after 3 years of your spouse being a citizen also or would it be 5 yrs in this case?

[Azagarth 0]

I was told from a co worker that her family could all come on a visitor visa and while here the parents could start a change of status. Is that really a way to do it? I wouldnt want to do anything that is against immigration policy, but they told me its ok to do and the quickest way.

[Boiler 43,396]

You can read all about it following the links.

But let us say it was possible, the parents would stay and send the children back?

Do they have tourist visas?

[Azagarth 0]

if they got a green card couldnt they then petition for their children as long as the children s visas dont expire?

[KimberlyAhmed 28]

I was told from a co worker that her family could all come on a visitor visa and while here the parents could start a change of status. Is that really a way to do it? I wouldnt want to do anything that is against immigration policy, but they told me its ok to do and the quickest way.

This could/would be considered fraud, as the intention it to stay and adjust status. A visitor visa is just for visiting, not immigrating.

[Boiler 43,396]

if they got a green card couldnt they then petition for their children as long as the children s visas dont expire?

They can not get a green card, they have nobody who can petition them.

The longest normally a tourist can stay is 6 months.

[aaron2020 11,651]

I was told from a co worker that her family could all come on a visitor visa and while here the parents could start a change of status. Is that really a way to do it? I wouldnt want to do anything that is against immigration policy, but they told me its ok to do and the quickest way.

This is genius. Why haven't any of us thought of this. So stupid waiting for all those years.

Completely not true. If it was true, why would any of us wait decades for family reunification? We are so stupid when the answers is visitor visas.

It's not possible for them to adjust and get green cards. It's not okay. And it's not the quickest legal way.

What I wrote in my prior post is the quickest and legal way.