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if they got a green card couldnt they then petition for their children as long as the children s visas dont expire?

I was told from a co worker that her family could all come on a visitor visa and while here the parents could start a change of status. Is that really a way to do it? I wouldnt want to do anything that is against immigration policy, but they told me its ok to do and the quickest way.

I know there is no way my father in law is leaving his new born baby for 6 years while he waits it out in the states.

Or is there a way he can just come and get his green card and then wait in Argentina until he can apply for citizenship? My assumption is that for citizenship you have to be physically present those 5 years right?

the oldest two we could probably sponsor as students in 5 yrs at the local college, the problem is the youngest kid then, who is not even 1 yr old. So there is no possible way he being so young could just come with the parents?

Her parents do not need a visa number, so a year or so, siblings do, 15 years or so.

Presumably the parents would not leave a 7 year old anyway.

Please correct me if I am confused.

SO it sounds like in 3 years my wife can become a citizen, petition for her parents, and on avg in 2 years they will immigrate as LPR to the US.

However, Her siblings, who will in 3 years be the ages of 4,15,22 will not be able to come with the parents and will end up waiting some 15 yr on avg to get here? That seems really messed up, please tell me I am wrong. I know there is no way the parents are ditching their kids. Is there not some way they can bring them with at that 5 years from now when they should receive legal resident status?

small chat with other green card holders in person. Not from credible sources by any means, but it got us excited thinking that in a short time her family could be here with us. It sucks to think we have to wait 3 years to even start the process, and then what ever time it takes for them to actually get the visa.

when she applies for her parents and siblings is it the same time frame waiting on the papers, etc as when I did her papers for immigration? or do they end up waiting years to even get the visa after we have started the process?

also she is able to ask for her sister who will be 22 at that point? and will she have to for her siblings that will be 16 and 3 yrs old? or do the parents just bring them as they come over with legal residency?

so basically for family members (parents and siblings) she has to be a citizen to ask for them? I have been told that LPR are able to ask for parents though immediately after getting their green card, was i misinformed?

My wife just received her conditional green card last month. We are now trying to figure out how to bring her family of 5 to the states from argentina. I am a US citizen.

Can my wife start the process now, or is it better to wait 3 years until she has citizenship?

All her siblings are under 18, except for her sister who just turned 18. What do we do about her? Can she still immigrate with her family or is she separate now that she is an adult?

What is the best way to go about this? We are very confused and would like to start asap as to not waste time. I Also don't know what costs I am looking at needing to save up for. Do we have to pay like 1500 per person, or since they are coming as a family is it just one payment of 1500? Any help is appreciated!!!

I will hopefully be sending in my wife's package in this month, but there is one thing I am wondering.

I originally was going to have my mother sponsor my wife, but my mother got cancer a few months ago and has thus stopped working.

I will be starting my new job this coming month of November and will earn enough myself to be the sponsor for my wife financially, however i have read that they will require last years taxes and a few months of pay stubs. Is this true? I won't have any to give so I was wondering if I should be looking for another sponsor or what options I have to show that I can financially support my wife.

Any help is welcomed.

Ya she told me that they hassled her quite a bit until she showed them mine and her ticket for our honey moon to Cancun. Which now with my mom in her condition seems like it's not going to happen for a long time. Thus we really did not have intention to stay, but it just makes sense now for us to do so financially

Oh sorry the honey moon we had planned to leave the country to Cancun for and then back to her country. Not here in the USA and she made that very clear to POE by showing them our plane tickets to Cancun in 5 months from now. Her purpose her was to see my mother and las Vegas one weekend which we have done.

I keep hearing there phrase "lied to POE". I am not really sure what one can lie about.

My wife entered on a tourist visa. They asked her if she planned to go back. She said yes, if she had a husband which she said yes to, why she was here which was to see my family and travel a bit, and then if she intended to go leave after her stay which she said yes to and showed them proof of intent to leave. However we want to do an aos now and would get saying she had the intent to go back be considered lying? Or would it have to be something bigger like her telling them she wasn't married at all to a USC?

I can't understand what things are really even possible to lie about and be denied an aos since the govt knows about everything already for marriage and such.

Maybe some people could shed some light on what USCIS considers lying at POE to me? Just want to take caution with me and my wives future. A ban would be terrible id hate to have to go live for 10 years in hher country.

She did get b2 after we got married for the purpose of seeing my doing mom. The poe she tells me gave her a hard time getting in but she told them she didn't plan on staying she just wanted to see her mother in law and then go to Cancun for her long wait honey moon (we already bought tickets that she showed them) this was a good enough reason that they let her in.

Would this be considered fraud or lying? We really didn't plan to stay but I'm broke now and we decided it would be better to not do the honey moon now and just study here working and to help my mom a bit financially. We didn't even know aos for us was an option. But I fear her telling the poe she had intended to leave my cause them to see it as fraud which wasn't the intent.

Cool thanks I think I will just do the papers myself then if there isn't anything confusing about them. They told me about a 30 60 90 rule what is that?

She never lied on anything and had always said she was married. The reason for the change is financial as we had initially planned to go to mexico for 6 months on a long honey moon, but now we can't do it financially since my mom is sick. We were going to do her papers from abroad so time was not and issue. We had a year to burn anyways but now it just make everything easier if we can just start working here in the USA together to help my mom.

Would you recommend we hire a lawywr?

I talked with two lawyers this week who said we should see no problems with changing her status. I think we are going to try, but let's say the worse happens and they call it visa fraud (which it isn't). How long would we be looking at her ban being or is there any way to fight it? Would you all recommend having a lawyer everything for the extra it costs or just doing it solo?

So me and my wife got married 2 months ago in Argentina. She got here a week ago on a tourist visa. Is it possible to do an aos since we got married outside of the USA? Do I gave to wait a certain amount of time?

Can you really not apply for aos if you have been married less than 2 years?

Oh so does the aos not grant her the visa? Ultimately that's what we are after so one day she can become a citizen.

Wow thanks for all the help everyone. I do not intend to do anything illegal, I wouldn't ever risk my wife chance at being able to one day become a citizen here.

I did not know about the AoS as a possibility now for her

This would be a great help top us as my mom just got 6 tumor out this week and her cancer is still spreading and she will start chemotherapy soon. Financially all this travel is killing me and now having an added expense of helping my mom just put me in the poor house.

Me and my wife talked about it and she wants to start working to be able to help me with bills, but obviously on a tourist visa she cannot. The aos would be a miracle worker in our situation for sure. I want her to also study which she currently cannot do as a visitor. And I've already has to drop out due to all this visa issues and money issues, but I would like to start again.

I think the aos is a good idea for us and would fix all of our problems. We still have intentions to go to mexico in January for a long waited honey moon, but knowing we could come back to a normal life here in the USA would be such a relief.

So my wife just got into the states with me, super happy about that. She is on a visitor visa for the next 6 months, but we only plan to stay a total of 5. We came to be able to take care of my cancer stricken mother for the next few months, and to save up some money for a honey moon for the next year (6 months in mexico). She is from Argentina and we figured we could spend a few months here in the USA and then wait it out in mexico until her visa for immigration comes through in the about a year wait we are looking forward to.

In the I-130 it asks is your relative has been to the US, which is a yes, and then its asks in 14 for me to put that she her as a visitor, and then asks for the arrival/departure record (I-94). I am really unsure what this even is. What is this? where would I find it?

I plan to send these papers off asap, but Someone recently told me that while she is her on a visitor visa, if I start her immigration process they will deny her entry and she will be banned for 10 years. This freaked me out and I would like to know what to do, if this is true, or what I should do to take prcautions.

We wont be staying her illegally. She told the POE that she would be here until the end of janurary, and that is what will be happening. Then we just wait it out in mexico until we travel back to argentina for her interview.

If anyone has a better idea of what to do, or can give me some options I have, please do!!! Thanks in advance.

so technically i can have her do an AOS while she is here, and not have to leave the country until she gets her green card? What are the consequences if for some reason they do prove visa fraud? is this likely that they will do it? We have yet to start her immigration process, so would that help or hurt us?

Its killed my bank account by having to live outside of the usa with her, and now more than ever my family needs me home to help them, aka work. my moms dying of cancer and its just super stressful right now. not having my wife here with me during this time period will be super hard, but i need to stay in the usa and i would hate to have to send her back home without me.

if anyone has a better idea than her coming n on a tourist visa, then doing an AOS ... PLEASE let me know. our end goal is to be living and start a normal life here in the USA, the sooner the better. I have already had to take a year off college, and now going onto the 2nd just sucks for my future.

i am USC, so will i be in trouble if I start her USCIS papers now then?

could i apply for an adjustment of status at all?

Seems pretty complicated. So it seems the best is to have her get there in sept. Let them know my mom will have a 2 month recovery which would put it in November, and then let them know with her recovery being so close to the holidays she would like to stay until the end of January to be able to spend the first and possibly only holidays with her mother in law and family. That's the truth, but do you think they will hassle her? I won't be with her in the airport to help, I will already be in the states for a week before that with my mom.