Sponsoring

[Amanuel 0]

Me and my family want to sponser my grandma and my little cousin,"she is 12" since my cousins parents r dead, my grandma is the one who raise her and has legal paper to raise her. I want to know if it is possible to sponser them together and what kind of visa they need. Also how can we ask to sponser them? 

[Roel 7,192]

There is no grandma or cousin visas.  Best they can do is to apply for tourist visas on their own and visit you. But there is no permanent immigration category for them. Family visas are for spouses, children, parents and siblings. 

[aleful 1,905]

hi

 

exactly, you can't sponsor them. there is no petition for a green card for grandparents or cousins

 

and if the want to come on their own, they would need to get a tourist visa, for your cousin,  her parents would apply for a tourist visa for her since she is a minor

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

You say "you and your family" want to do this; does that include your parents, ie the daughter or son of grandma?  If so, they can sponsor.

However, the little cousin cannot come unless she is a legally adopted chld of grandma, in which case, once grandma has the greencard, she can sponsor her "child".

[JFH 12,190]

Only your parent who is the son or daughter of your grandmother can petition her for an immigrant visa. When you say "sponsor", do you mean petition for an immigrant visa or are they just coming to visit? There are some urban myths circulating the internet that people need "sponsors" for visit visas and this is not true. 

 

Has the grandmother formally adopted the cousin? Or is she just a legal guardian? If she has officially adopted her and the grandmother is planning to immigrate then her child can come with her. If she's not her legal parent then she can't. 

 

But do also consider whether this is a good idea for the child. You say her parents are dead so she had already been through a lot of change and has likely been emotionally damaged by the trauma of losing both parents so young. Bringing her into a foreign country away from what is familiar might not be the best thing for her, however well-intentioned your plans may be. A good life for a child is more than just how rich the country they live in is.