B2 Visa For My Mother

[Mrs. Cristiano 42]

I will need a lot of advise. I'm a green card holder. Been living in New York since April 2021, married to a US citizen and currently pregnant (due in October 2024).

My mother always wanting to visit me here and I think it's the right moment now. So not only she will be seeing the neighborhood I live in, but she will also see her very first grandAchild.

 

The thing is she can't speak english and will travel alone here. She is now 63 years old. She has a full-time job and a business since 1993, and she also own a property under her name.

 

Now, the questions:

 

1. I know the visa decision will be 100% will be in the interviewer's hand, but do you think her chance will be pretty high ?

2. On the DS-160 form, who should pay her trip ? Because me and my husband for all her trip expenses. But yes, she also has her own money with her now.

3. Also on the form and at the interview, should she mention that she'll be visiting me and her grandchild or just say vacation ?

 

Those are all the questions I could think about at this moment. I'm sure I will have a lot more along the way.

 

[Dashinka 24,590]

17 minutes ago, Mrs. Cristiano said:

I will need a lot of advise. I'm a green card holder. Been living in New York since April 2021, married to a US citizen and currently pregnant (due in October 2024).

My mother always wanting to visit me here and I think it's the right moment now. So not only she will be seeing the neighborhood I live in, but she will also see her very first grandAchild.

 

The thing is she can't speak english and will travel alone here. She is now 63 years old. She has a full-time job and a business since 1993, and she also own a property under her name.

 

Now, the questions:

 

1. I know the visa decision will be 100% will be in the interviewer's hand, but do you think her chance will be pretty high ?

This is hard to predict, but from what you said, it appears she has fairly strong tie to Indonesia.

17 minutes ago, Mrs. Cristiano said:

2. On the DS-160 form, who should pay her trip ? Because me and my husband for all her trip expenses. But yes, she also has her own money with her now.

I would put self financed.  You can work out the financials between yourselves afterward.

17 minutes ago, Mrs. Cristiano said:

3. Also on the form and at the interview, should she mention that she'll be visiting me and her grandchild or just say vacation ?

She has to disclose any relatives currently in the U.S. As to purpose for the trip, it sounds like she is taking a vacation.

17 minutes ago, Mrs. Cristiano said:

 

Those are all the questions I could think about at this moment. I'm sure I will have a lot more along the way.

 

Good Luck!

[SalishSea 17,921]

She absolutely needs to tell the truth about the reasons for her visit, and who her contacts are in the US.  

[usmsbow 802]

I'll just say my in-laws got a tourist visa two years ago, and they're a similar age as your mother. I'm sure they said they were paying for their trip (which they indeed were), and that they were visiting their daughter and me. I don't know what documents they provided, but my father-in-law had recently retired (was a government worker) and my mother-in-law has been a housewife for most of her adult life. They also have 3 other kids, two of which obtained tourist visas as well. I was honestly surprised my brother-in-law and sister-in-law were approved too since they were both in their early 20s and students with no significant ties to Indonesia. I assume they got approved since they applied and interviewed with their parents.

 

They live in East Java and went to the consulate in Surabaya for the interview.

 

Good luck to your mom. I think she has a decent shot at being approved. Older applicants seem to have better luck than younger ones.

 

Edited to add: my wife's parents don't speak English either. Her siblings speak some English.

 

 

 

Edited April 27 by usmsbow