Bringing my CR1 wife's (Green Card holder) 18 y.o. orphaned nephew from a non-Hague country to the United States

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1 hour ago, Boiler said:

The US is actually very generous in the Family Categories, expecting a Permanent Resident to bring an adult nephew does seem somewhat optimistic.

 

It does seem that a significant percentage of students intend to stay once they have qualified, usually through work so I would not rule that route out entirely.

Thank you. Totally agreed, it is indeed generous. As far as that being optimistic, her nephew being an adoptable orphan for whom my wife assumed responsibility after her sister's death, I would not agree here. Like I mentioned in the previous post, unmarried children under 21 (not 16, not 18) can immigrate. He will be left without family there. 

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1 minute ago, SusieQQQ said:

This is your basic error of assumption. The US does not consider immigration to be a right. It is a privilege.

 

 

Being together as a family is a basic human right. You can't take away a child from a mother, for example. Immigration is a privilege, but the way laws are designed, they build upon basic, foundational rights.

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7 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

This is your basic error of assumption. The US does not consider immigration to be a right. It is a privilege.

 

I don’t see a point in responding to the rest of the post, venting at other posters because you don’t like the law doesn’t require a response. 

Thank you for the helpful part and best of luck. 

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Just now, v2talk said:

Being together as a family is a basic human right. You can't take away a child from a mother, for example. Immigration is a privilege, but the way laws are designed, they build upon basic, foundational rights.

Once more: the right to be together as a family does not equate to it being a right to being together as a family in the US. If you believe that it does, you will need to engage a lawyer to help get the law changed.  There are many families who have not immigrated, or returned home, because of similar factors - including that there is no special dispensation for treating someone with special needs as anything different than the age and marital status distinctions on immigration categories says they are. 
 

 

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Special needs would tend to negate the Student option.