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1 hour ago, SusieQQQ said:

It seems like an extreme solution rather than meeting at home or in a closer third country (Canada?) from time to time, but of course I understand your frustration. It’s always a shame when one’s countrymen abuse visas to the extent that it makes it difficult for genuine applicants to get visas. I see this in my own country, where literally almost everyone who applied used to get tourist visas no problem, but now it’s getting more difficult as overstays have been rising. 

Canada? We can't meet in Canada and spend weeks there. Even if we could I don't think it is going to be that easy for third world country citizens to get tourist visas to Canada.  I don't have much knowledge about Canada's immigration, so I can't really say anything concrete about them. Meeting in the US and spending about a month together is the best place and situation for us. Any other option is out of our hands, other than immigrating to the us, which is not our intention. Thank you for your suggestions though. Hopefully the embassy will grant the child a visitor's visa, otherwise we will have to go with the immigration option later. 

5 hours ago, aaron2020 said:

lol

 

They didn't grant him a visitor visa last time, and they might not do so again.

 

A visitor visa is a privilege, not a right.  

 

We know it is a privilege, however family members have to visit each other from time to time. The ones who are in the US can't travel overseas every year or two. 

3 hours ago, SusieQQQ said:

It sounds like you think green cards can be used as some kind of super tourist visa. They can’t. All you’re going to end up doing is proving immigrant intent, maybe get a couple visits out of it in the meantime. Once the green cards are deemed abandoned for failure to maintain residency you’ll be back to square one but with even more concrete evidence for B refusals. 

No, we don't want greed cards. We just need fricking tourist visa so that some of my family members can visit me and my family from time to time. If my sister ends up getting immigrant visa eventually then of coarse she will have to maintain the residency status here, leaving everything behind back home. When I immigrated to the US I didn't mean I was leaving everyone behind and never see my relatives visit me in the future. Immigrating to the US should also come with joys and celebrations of relatives getting together once a while.

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

Immigrant visa is for immigrating not visiting.

Yes, that is what I mean. By denying non-immigrant visas the embassies are forcing us to apply for immigrant visas which we don't need. I am saying if they deny visitor's visa to the child then as the last resort we will have to submit family-preference immigrant visa for my sister on behalf of my mother, which usually takes 5-6 years for the PDs to become current. The most convenient option for lot of us (our relatives) would have been visitor visas, but unfortunately the embassies are tough these days granting visitors' visas to prospective (real) visitor's with genuine intentions of coming back to their home countries. Unfortunately there are lot of "visitors" that take advantage of the non-immigrant visas as well. 

On 11/3/2019 at 8:50 PM, aaron2020 said:

The mother is not absent.  She's available to take the child to the interview.

 

Having the grandmother take the child when the mother is available seems desperate and the CO will wonder why the mother didn't take him.  

Yes, the mother is going to take the child to the interview.

On 11/3/2019 at 11:34 PM, Southern_Belle07 said:

 

Check SusieQQQ and aaron2020’s response to me first before filing paperwork for b1/b2 visa.

Yes thanks.

On 11/4/2019 at 12:01 AM, SusieQQQ said:

Nothing wrong with her doing the application. But the mother should be the one accompanying the child to the interview, even if the child is traveling without her.

We filled DS-160 and already scheduled an interview for the child. He will enter to the embassy with his mother, but the grandmother will just wait outside in case if they need to talk to her. Even if the embassy doesn't need to talk to the grandmother she will just accompany the mother and the child to the embassy and back home. They better grant a visitor visa to him, otherwise my mother will have to file family-preference immigrant application for her daughter which usually takes 5-6 years to get a visa. The embassies are leaving us with no choice but apply for immigrant visas, which we don't actually need. But due to the fact that family members need to visit each other we have to apply for the immigrant visas, otherwise they can't visit us here in the US.

9 minutes ago, aaron2020 said:

Yes.  The mother can give her child permission to travel with his grandmother.  That's a family choice and has nothing to do with visas.  

Ok, thank you for the answer. I will go ahead and fill DS-160 for the child, schedule an interview and see how it will go then.

7 minutes ago, aaron2020 said:

The mother takes him to the interview.  She's the one with legal authority over him.

 

Grandmother is not involved in her grandson's visitor visa application.  Grandmother has no legal authority over him and no reason for her to take him when his mother is capable of taking him.  

Ok, if the child is granted the visitor visa, can he then travel to/from the US with his grandmother?

On 10/31/2019 at 3:28 PM, aaron2020 said:

The child has a chance for a visitor visa by applying.  No one can tell you whether he has a good chance or not.

 

It doesn't matter who takes him to the US.  Grandmother accompanying him to the US is irrelevant in considering whether to issue the visa or not.  

 

His eligibility for a visitor visa will depend on his circumstances and his mother's circumstances.  Since he and his mother were both denied visitor visas last year, it does not bode well if he applies by himself now.  Applying by himself does not increase his chances of getting a visitor visa.  

Since he is a child, with whom should he go to the interview? With his mother or grandmother? If he can go with his grandmother to the interview should the mother write a letter that she gives permission to go the the interview with his grandmother? Or is this asked during the DS-160 application?

On 10/31/2019 at 11:23 AM, SusieQQQ said:

The embassy might be suspicious about taking a school age child on vacation for a “month or two”. Is this planned over the child’s school vacation? 

Yes this is planned for the 1 month winter vocation that schools have.

Hello VJ,

I wanted to ask if anyone has brought a grandchild from overseas to the US for short term vocation and then took him/back home. I am us citizen and my mother is green card holder. I have a sister overseas who is a single mother and has an 8 years old son. My mother is currently overseas temporarily staying with her daughter and grandchild. We were wandering if the grandmother (gc holder and my mother) can take her grandson to the us for short term vocation and then take him back after let say 1 month or two. The child's mother was denied tourist visa last year when she applied with her son and she has her own business and is going to stay there. Does the child have any chance being granted a b1/b1 visa to visit the US with his grandmother for vocation purpose? We would really appreciate any advice/experiences on these kinds of situations.

I meant we are moving, it is moving, things are changing/moving or whatever you may decode my phrase "right track" even though it may mean moving from wrong track to right track. Thanks for asking anyway

never mind, we got finally approved right after i posted my post here regarding the csc taking too long to process our case. we are now on right track!!!

oh thank you so much guys for your input. it was very helpful!

Hi Visa Journey community, I would like to ask a question regarding a visa:

We filed a petition for K3 visa which is I-129f which also includes I-130 petition for IR-1/CR-1 visa as well.

Now our petitions are both approved at the same time, so we are now trying to make a decision on which one to go with.

I know the immigrant visa would be good, but the problem for us is time, we would like to join each other as soon as possible.

The priority for us is time not the status whether it be immigrant or non-immigrant, but at the same time we are worried about how hard would adjustment of status be later;

Just to compare it with the petition of I-130 in terms of complexity , time, hassle, money, and etc, how hard or easy would Adjustment Of Status be later when we will apply?

If adjusting the status is comparably too hard then we will go with the I130 approval, otherwise with the I-129f.

So can you guys please give me some advice on this? maybe some of you gone through this or know cons and pros....

Thank you so much!

Finally we got approved too on August 23! Looks like CSC is moving faster than they were in the fall and winter times. ohh what a relief !

Good Luck everyone!

We got approved last August 3 and just today we got our case number from NVC. Aug 22.

Great! Congratulations!!! wow yours was fast!

interesting, when mine comes, priority date was May 10, 2012. what was your priority date?

Ehh, if I only knew this earlier The time when we filed our I-130 application with USCIS in April, priority day May 10, 2012, I was living abroad together with my wife and stayed there until late July before I came back to the US. If I only knew this expedite thing before we filed, then things wouldn't have been this tough for my family. Now, it has been more than 100 days since our NOA1 and still in the initial review stage . My family has been experiencing very tough times with the USCIS since September, 2011 when we first filed our I-129F petition which they denied at the end in March, 2012. Then we filed a new petition (I-130) which we are waiting now.

It has been miserable to wait and wait forever, hoping a light will show up from the USCIS status update website, but no such things yet. I don't think anybody petitioning with a hope to have better life and future had the hardest time ever than us. Ok,... if i continue, the story will go on and on, never seems to stop.... Let me ask a question from deer friends here, when I completed the I-130 package while in overseas, I put my US address on the I130 questions #2 except for question #21 where it says "If filing for your husband/wife, give last address at which you lived together" for which I answered by writing our abroad address where we were living together at that time. (I put from February, 2012 to present, where it asks "From To"). And on form G-325A for petitioner (myself)I put my foreign address first where it says "Applicant's address last five years." So, having said that, is there a chance to call the USCIS and request them for expedited service (even though it has been already more than 3 months), explaining them that I was living together with the beneficiary abroad at the time we filed our I-130 petition? Do they expedite at this stage or am I too late? or what else? what else can I do so that I and my family won't have to wait for another couple months till the NOA2? Please help me and give me some advice!!!

Ehh, if I only knew this forum/expedited service earlier then everything would have been just fantastic!

I filed mine on may-10 as well with CSC. Hopefully they will approve sooner this time. I filed my I-129f last September but they denied it in March 2012 after we have gone through so many hassles. we are so tired of waiting from uscis. It is like taking forever....

I am so curious about the progresses there at CSC regarding I-130 petitions. please anybody keep posting your results/progresses/suggestions if you have filed in April, May or June so that we each know where the CSC at, Thanks everyone and Good Luck!!!