Visitor Visa Questions

[rajthebam 0]

all right question for you guys...

i m US citizen and my wife is perm resident - her parents would like to come visit her for her graduation ceremony - so on visitor visa they would like to come -

1. when filing out the sponsorship forms, should i fill out or she has to fill out? do we have a choice in who can sponsor?

2. whats the normal procedure from both my end and her parents end from india?

Thanks.

[YuAndDan 153]

1) Visitors visas are not a sponsored visa like immigrants. The intending visitor just fills out a DS-156 online prints it out and pays the $131 equivalent fee to the consulate. You can provide an affidavit of support. (I-134) and attach financial evidence.

2) Parents fill out DS-156 on line, print it out and file it to the consulate. And as above you can provide an I-134, and perhaps an invitation letter.

https://evisaforms.state.gov/

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-134.pdf

More here: http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/nonimmigrant_visas.html

Edited March 13, 2008 by YuAndDan

[rajthebam 0]

well one of my questions still remain -

i am US citizen and wife is Perm resident thru our marriage - can either one of us sponsor even though i m not related to my wife's parents directly? if so, are there different documnets requirements for US citizen sponsoring vs. Perm. resident sponsoring?

1) Visitors visas are not a sponsored visa like immigrants. The intending visitor just fills out a DS-156 online prints it out and pays the $131 equivalent fee to the consulate. You can provide an affidavit of support. (I-134) and attach financial evidence.

2) Parents fill out DS-156 on line, print it out and file it to the consulate. And as above you can provide an I-134, and perhaps an invitation letter.

https://evisaforms.state.gov/

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-134.pdf

More here: http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/nonimmigrant_visas.html

[athena_ny 1]

well one of my questions still remain -

i am US citizen and wife is Perm resident thru our marriage - can either one of us sponsor even though i m not related to my wife's parents directly? if so, are there different documnets requirements for US citizen sponsoring vs. Perm. resident sponsoring?

1) Visitors visas are not a sponsored visa like immigrants. The intending visitor just fills out a DS-156 online prints it out and pays the $131 equivalent fee to the consulate. You can provide an affidavit of support. (I-134) and attach financial evidence.

2) Parents fill out DS-156 on line, print it out and file it to the consulate. And as above you can provide an I-134, and perhaps an invitation letter.

https://evisaforms.state.gov/

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-134.pdf

More here: http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/nonimmigrant_visas.html

There is no sponsoring of tourist visas. They get it (or don't) on their own merit.