Green Card holder who is a PhD student

[imantahamtan 0]

HI

I am a US permanent resident. I am the petitioner of my wife. I know that the process of getting a visa for my wife would takes at least one year. However, I am recently admitted to the PhD program in The Uni of Tennessee. I would like to know if I can apply for a F1 visa (student visa) for my wife to take her to the US sooner?

(As you may know, those guys who are admitted in one of US colleges and get a student visa can also bring their wife or kids to the US)

[Love To Teach 161]

Hi... I have no answers for you, BUT I wanted to say WELCOME to TN....UT is where I got my degree. Are you coming to the Knoxville campus? Hope you enjoy life in East TN.....

[newacct 688]

No

[aleful 1,905]

hi

a year is for spouses of USC, a spouse of a LPR can take 2 years

[belinda63 3,039]

You cannot apply for a visa for yourself as you have a green card. Your wife could apply for a student visa for her to attend school in the US.

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

As you will not have a F1 student visa, your wife cannot get an F2 spouse-of-student visa.

As Belinda said, she could apply for an F1 student visa of her own if she wants to study here and you have the funds, but she could not work, and frankly with the pending immigration case, her chances of getting approved are low.

[Boiler 45,666]

You could, first you would need to surrender your GC, form I 407.

[hari29 24]

HI

I am a US permanent resident. I am the petitioner of my wife. I know that the process of getting a visa for my wife would takes at least one year. However, I am recently admitted to the PhD program in The Uni of Tennessee. I would like to know if I can apply for a F1 visa (student visa) for my wife to take her to the US sooner?

(As you may know, those guys who are admitted in one of US colleges and get a student visa can also bring their wife or kids to the US)

I don't think many people here understood your question. You are asking if your wife can apply for a F-1 visa while the F2A (you apply as a green card holder to sponsor your wife) visa is pending.

If your wife can get an admission in an University, then she can apply and come here on an F1 visa. But F1 visa is a non-immigrant visa, which means they expect you to return to your country after your studies. Since you already applied for F2A visa which is an immigrant visa, this is a conflict and they may reject your F1 application owing to the fact that you already applied for F2A. But sometimes the embassy officer may be lenient towards F1 than any other visa such as B2 (tourist visa) in this case. You can apply and see what happens if you have money to spend on college application and visa fees.

[paulatth 0]

Agreed on this.

Your wife can apply for F1. However, if my recollection is correct, it will ask whether she is in a process of immigration, in your scenario, it is YES. They might still grant your wife a student visa, but highly unsure. You might want to wait until she gets her GC rather than to rish on F1 visa to jeopardize the whole process.

If it is as many others understood, you actually cannot apply a F2 visa for her as u r not F1.

I don't think many people here understood your question. You are asking if your wife can apply for a F-1 visa while the F2A (you apply as a green card holder to sponsor your wife) visa is pending.

If your wife can get an admission in an University, then she can apply and come here on an F1 visa. But F1 visa is a non-immigrant visa, which means they expect you to return to your country after your studies. Since you already applied for F2A visa which is an immigrant visa, this is a conflict and they may reject your F1 application owing to the fact that you already applied for F2A. But sometimes the embassy officer may be lenient towards F1 than any other visa such as B2 (tourist visa) in this case. You can apply and see what happens if you have money to spend on college application and visa fees.