mother in law visiting on tourist visa....

[mich08 0]

As of right now, my question isn't necessarily about bringing over a relative...yet. My fiance from Argentina just recieved his K-1 visa, will arrive in the States on the 31 of this month, and we're gonna get married, do the whole AOS/greencard stuff...and eventually work towards his citizenship. He is the only child of his single mother, so she is applying for a tourist visa so that she can come and visit us here eventually. However, since she is getting up in years, the plan will be to try to bring her here permanently as soon as my fiance gets citizenship and can sponsor her or whatever the correct terminology here is...(we've been pretty wrapped up in the K1 process, so I'm still not 100% clear on the bringing over of a relative). My question right now is this: When my mother-in-law applies for the tourist visa/comes to visit, should she mention that she is visiting her son and daughter in law? Or should she just say she's coming here on vacation? I've heard conflicting advice on this, some saying that if our govt. knows she has family here, she's older, retired, they'll see her as a risk of someone who will stay illegally to be with her son, etc...the people advising her on the tourist visa papers told her to put that she's visiting Miami (we live in Utah) and no address for where she'll stay, just 'hotel in Miami'...because apparently the assumption (crazy though it seems to me) is that all Latin Americans only want to visit Miami....they said not to mention that her son lives in the states....but on the other hand, it seems to me that there must be a huge number of people getting tourist visas to come visit some family member that may have somehow ended up in the States, and how can they deny entry on those grounds? ALSO...Do embassies check on visa applicants names, and find out if their relatives have recieved visas? For example, her name is on my fiance's visa paperwork as his mother (obviously), so does her name go into the system, and then will it pop up when she goes in for her tourist visa interview? And then the interviewer will say "You want to visit Miami, but we see here that your son just got a visa to go get married and live in Utah..." ?????? Can this happen? or is my mind just overly creative? Thanks for any insight - I feel like a pro at the K1 visa process, but this is a fresh can of worms....

[Boiler 45,486]

You are required to provide details of any family living in the US and you are required to answer truthfuly the purpose of your visit.

But a good example of why it is difficult to get visa's from certain countres.

[Dakine 26]

As of right now, my question isn't necessarily about bringing over a relative...yet. My fiance from Argentina just recieved his K-1 visa, will arrive in the States on the 31 of this month, and we're gonna get married, do the whole AOS/greencard stuff...and eventually work towards his citizenship. He is the only child of his single mother, so she is applying for a tourist visa so that she can come and visit us here eventually. However, since she is getting up in years, the plan will be to try to bring her here permanently as soon as my fiance gets citizenship and can sponsor her or whatever the correct terminology here is...(we've been pretty wrapped up in the K1 process, so I'm still not 100% clear on the bringing over of a relative). My question right now is this: When my mother-in-law applies for the tourist visa/comes to visit, should she mention that she is visiting her son and daughter in law? Or should she just say she's coming here on vacation? I've heard conflicting advice on this, some saying that if our govt. knows she has family here, she's older, retired, they'll see her as a risk of someone who will stay illegally to be with her son, etc...the people advising her on the tourist visa papers told her to put that she's visiting Miami (we live in Utah) and no address for where she'll stay, just 'hotel in Miami'...because apparently the assumption (crazy though it seems to me) is that all Latin Americans only want to visit Miami....they said not to mention that her son lives in the states....but on the other hand, it seems to me that there must be a huge number of people getting tourist visas to come visit some family member that may have somehow ended up in the States, and how can they deny entry on those grounds? ALSO...Do embassies check on visa applicants names, and find out if their relatives have recieved visas? For example, her name is on my fiance's visa paperwork as his mother (obviously), so does her name go into the system, and then will it pop up when she goes in for her tourist visa interview? And then the interviewer will say "You want to visit Miami, but we see here that your son just got a visa to go get married and live in Utah..." ?????? Can this happen? or is my mind just overly creative? Thanks for any insight - I feel like a pro at the K1 visa process, but this is a fresh can of worms....

Check out the questions on the DS 156.

Doing so should answer your questions.

Always better to be honest.

https://evisaforms.state.gov/