Bringing mother of US Citizen

[joce 0]

Good morning,

I need information on this topic. My cousin is a US citizen and wants to file a Form I-130 to bring her mother to live in the US. My cousin lives and has lived abroad his whole life, can he still file the petition for her mother? If so, how do we start the process? what forms and documents we need to send to USCIS to start the process?

Thanks in advance for your help,

[Boiler 43,691]

When is he moving back?

[canadian_wife 1,794]

Does he intend to move back to the U.S.?

These are family reunification visas. If your cousin does not live in the US, where is the family reunification?

Good luck

[Inikamoze 86]

Your cousin keeps switching sexes.

"Her mother"....

lived abroad "his" whole life

can "he" still file the petition for "her" mother?

Unless you mean the male in this case is married to the daughter of his Mother in law (in which case he can't petition on his wife's behalf for her parents), she would need to do that herself once she establishes immigration status in the US herself..

If all of the above is a red herring then....

To petition his/her mother would mean residing in the USA with proof he is a us citizen, filed taxes every year. (when of age to do so), have an income above the minimum poverty level for his/her household size for a good period of time backed up with wage slips etc.... or failing that have a co sponsor ready and willing to complete paperwork to bring MIL in if approved.

Your cousins mother ever been to US? I assume father is a citizen that has given your cousin the link to being a US citizen (not that it matters... just wondered if she ever held some sort of status in US or was all the relationship conducted on foreign soil)

Look at the guides as lots of firms to review... as a minimum I-130, I-485 & I-864....

Edited November 16, 2016 by Inikamoze

[JFH 12,189]

Look at the guides as lots of firms to review... as a minimum I-130, I-485 & I-864....

No I-485 needed for an IR-5 as the mother is not in the USA.

Neither is the petitioner, by all accounts, and that needs to be addressed before anything else can happen.

[Inikamoze 86]

Thanks for the correction

[joce 0]

It was a mistake, my cousin is male and he wants to petition his mother. His father is a us citizen too but, but he and my cousin mother were never married.

My cousin is studying abroad, he is in college. The issue here is that he moved out of the US when he was 5, and have been living all this time somewhere else

[Unlockable 7,306]

The issue here is that he has to reestablish US domicile before he can petition for someone. Which is the reason why someone asked when is he returning. He won't be able to perition anything until then.