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i believe they would be considered derivatives if also applying for a spouse as the primary concurrently.
 
i may be wrong on that, but I think thats how it works.
 
and many people, MANY PEOPLE, have no idea what the finances need to be to sponsor one person, let along SIX. So even if it does not apply to YOU it may well apply to SOMEONE ELSE who finds this thread in a search for sponsoring their children.
 
 
 
thanks for the clarification on that. i was kind of close but no cigar lol

Wow... nice catch WeGuyGal! 

Is this a different issue than this from a year ago? 

Wow!

Wow... nice catch WeGuyGal! 

I’m surprised that many people’s parents want to live here. My parents said no way they’d come live here since they don’t speak the language and my dad said he hated the food here. They’ve only visited me once for a week during the 7 years I’ve been living here, and that’s to attend my wedding reception lol...

Always hear the crazy lefties on CNN say: “My Irish great grandmother came here looking for better life , America is a land of immigrants, we took the poor and hurdled ITS ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY” radadadadada
That was the last century and even hundreds of years ago . We live in a very different landscae now. America is now a land of welfare programs. 
You think they had poor childrens health care insurance , medicare, foodstamps etc .. when they arrived on the mayflower ? 
 
With having such a welfare country you can not take most of your new immigrants from the poorest of the poorest countries in the world. 
 
Chain immigration needs to stop . Democrats use it as a way to get new votes in the future but it is so wrong and bad for the country . I see my vietnamese neighbours sponsor all there parents now . Siblings already in the pipe and applied for. They still dont speak a word of english after 10 years . We need to make it easier for highly educated to come here and harder for extended family members if not scrap it all together. 
This is not how ANY other western country selects its immigrants its old and outdated . 
 
In regards to DACA . First they said only DACA should get amnesty because they came as no fault of there own . Then ####### Durbin and his gang of amnesty people go to trump and propose LEGAL STATUS for thr parents as part of the deal . Thats why the government was shut down . 
They want unlimited amnesty for illegal immigrants but never fix the problem of how they came here initally . 
 
I live in Arizona by the border and I can tell you first hand from talking to ranch owners who have illegal immigrants and drug mules break into there house few times a year and multiple border patrol agents that WALLS WORK. Yuma,AZ had a huge problem with illegal immigration and since they built a wall with fencing and sensors and drones it is down to basically ZERO . 
 
No one is talking about a concrete wall but a wall in terms of inpenetrable fencing . With double fencing and additional technology . It will not stop everyone but it will give Border Patrol time to react .
 
Everyone knows it down here and its only the leftist elitists on the east coast and in hollywood who have never even been to the border that deny it . 
 
 
Yes I am an Immgrant so what ? I did it legally and I saw firsthand what unchecked illegal immigration in the millions did to my native Germany in only 1-2 years .
We have to have a sensible approach . Keep the DACA people for what its worth BUT make sure illegal immgration is the past once and for all . Bring it down to the minimum , it can be done if its wanted I know that. 
 
Chain migration is a thing of the past and has to stop . This is not anti immigration this is common sense. You had terrorist come through the visa lottery system and if its just one american citizen that died of the result of it , it needs to be abolished. Thats my opinion 

As to this getting passed in it's entirety, probably not likely. When? Who knows, congress can't seem to ever agree on anything especially when some are so hell bent on "resistance".

Want to share a story of two immigrants. This is real life scenarios as one of these stories is of an immigrant I currently work with.
 
Before I share the story I want to disclaim that I am NOT claiming support NOR claiming of being against immigration reform. I simply want to share my personal experience with it.
 
Immigrant 1 is an educated mechanical engineer here on a work visa. He is contracted by a large corporation. In order to be able to get a high-level job here, he had to be college educated as well as be proficient in English. He has been working in the US for 5 years. His contract with the large corporation, we will call DevilCorp, gets renewed every year. So, every year he has to wait anxiously to see if he has to go back to his home country if the DevilCorp decides they want to cut costs and terminate his contract along with others. Immigrant 1’s wife and daughter are here, but he currently has no way to petition for other family members like his parents or siblings. Not only that, at any point during his employment he is terminated, he only has like 90 days to pack up his family and return home.
 
Immigrant 2 is a young girl from {name any third world country}. She meets a US citizen, marries him, and immigrates to the US. Within 3 – 4 years she is a US citizen herself. She then immediately petitions for her parents. Her parents arrive a year later and they petition for the rest of their adult children which consist of a single daughter and a married brother with 2 kids. About 2 years later they all arrive.
 
Immigrant 1 has been here with his wife and daughter for 5 years and is still at risk of having to return to his country.
Immigrant 2 has been able to immigrate nearly all of her extended family in a little over the same amount of time Immigrant 1 has been here AND with her family having to go through little or no vetting of education, work experience, or even English language proficiency.
This is the point behind the drive of merit based immigration reform
 
 
P.S. Immigrant 1 is a coworker and friend of mine.

The problem with that is Republicans have been trying to do this delicately for decades now with no help/support from the Dems at all. So might as well go big or go home in regards to it.

I know that I will never be in the position to be effected by this, but my great grandmother and her entire family came on the boat from Hungary. They went through Ellis Island and went through the process to become American citizens because they wanted a chance at a better life. 
 
I cannot fathom, for the life of me, why people think that we should act like we're not a land of immigrants. 

Visa fraud is very real, and there are a lot of faults with our current system, but I do not like the attitude that so many people have about immigrants - especially on a website that is here for people going through processes like this. Come on. Have some tact.

There have been proposals for long term visit visas for parents. 
 
People are angry that people have sponsored their parents and dumped them on SSI, Medicaid and other income based welfare programs. Many - on this forum even - have discussed not being honest about parents' income and assets from their home country so that parents can receive the "entitlements",  Blame the peoplel who have done these things and not Americans who are struggling to pay their own bills, and are angry that people who never have or will contribute to the US are being supported by tax money.
 
 

What? So is the Netherlands but it's not possible there, nowhere in Europe. Every country values family, every human does. America is the only country that has the "easiest" immigration process for parents and siblings. But sometimes it's simply not possible to find an easy way instead of willing to wait 14 years. 

Hi,
thank you.
Looks like the waitlist has reduced.
Either there are less people applying and/or they are accepting more applications.
 
I am still very hopeful I can get my brother over here. even if he has to wait 10years.