Chances of B1/B2 approval for someone with US citizen spouse and kid

[Dave&Roza 748]

Nope, she didn't surrender anything. She claims she threw the card away when she went back since it was expired and useless.

She does not understand about being a LPR. The 10 year GC has an expiration date. You must file an I-90 to renew the GC, but your LPR status continues. She could have let the GC expire and remained in the US. As long as she did not need the GC as a form of ID, she could wait to renew the GC until she did--i.e. like traveling outside the US. Now she has been outside the US long enough to have abandoned her LPR status and I bet it will come up at the interview as to why she abandoned her LPR status and now what to travel back to the US. I would say she has two strikes against her for getting a B1/B2 visa do to this issue.

She goes to the US Embassy in Moscow after completing the B1/B2 visa application and paying the application fee. She will either get the visa or not. It really depends on the person she has for the interview. My wife had a nice young women deny her B1/B2 visa and two weeks later had a nice middle aged man approve it. What changed in those two weeks to her situation to make one person approve her application and one person deny it? It is a $165 gamble plus travel expenses if she does not live in Moscow.

Dave

[babyduck 3]

She does not understand about being a LPR. The 10 year GC has an expiration date. You must file an I-90 to renew the GC, but your LPR status continues. She could have let the GC expire and remained in the US. As long as she did not need the GC as a form of ID, she could wait to renew the GC until she did--i.e. like traveling outside the US. Now she has been outside the US long enough to have abandoned her LPR status and I bet it will come up at the interview as to why she abandoned her LPR status and now what to travel back to the US. I would say she has two strikes against her for getting a B1/B2 visa do to this issue.

She goes to the US Embassy in Moscow after completing the B1/B2 visa application and paying the application fee. She will either get the visa or not. It really depends on the person she has for the interview. My wife had a nice young women deny her B1/B2 visa and two weeks later had a nice middle aged man approve it. What changed in those two weeks to her situation to make one person approve her application and one person deny it? It is a $165 gamble plus travel expenses if she does not live in Moscow.

Dave

Thanks Dave, quick clarification - what do you mean by 2 strikes? One was abandoning her residency, what's the other?

[Dave&Roza 748]

Thanks Dave, quick clarification - what do you mean by 2 strikes? One was abandoning her residency, what's the other?

Having a relative in the US--either her husband (since they are still married--legally) or her child counts here.

Dave