Green card for just the mother

[ssmk 0]

I am a non working US citizen married to a working US citizen and want to apply for Green Card for my mother only not the father. My mothers visitors visa have been rejected 4 times.

The only reason I want to apply for her green card is that she wants to visit me and like all mothers wants to see the life of her daughter here in states.

She is a principal of a senior secondary school in India.

What is the process of application.I understand the first step is Filing form I 130.

Please advise as we are very dissapointed by the visa rejection of my mother

What are the chances of getting green card for just the mother alone

[sara..... 371]

I am a non working US citizen married to a working US citizen and want to apply for Green Card for my mother only not the father. My mothers visitors visa have been rejected 4 times.

The only reason I want to apply for her green card is that she wants to visit me and like all mothers wants to see the life of her daughter here in states.

She is a principal of a senior secondary school in India.

What is the process of application.I understand the first step is Filing form I 130.

Please advise as we are very dissapointed by the visa rejection of my mother

What are the chances of getting green card for just the mother alone

i really dont know the proper answer to this but perviz brother that is now usa citizen did file for g.c. for his father how ever i think he got it because of medical reasons to start out with.......i dont know how much that information will help u but its all i know

sara

[aaron2020 11,651]

I am a non working US citizen married to a working US citizen and want to apply for Green Card for my mother only not the father. My mothers visitors visa have been rejected 4 times.

The only reason I want to apply for her green card is that she wants to visit me and like all mothers wants to see the life of her daughter here in states.

She is a principal of a senior secondary school in India.

What is the process of application.I understand the first step is Filing form I 130.

Please advise as we are very dissapointed by the visa rejection of my mother

What are the chances of getting green card for just the mother alone

It shouldn't be a problem for you to petition for your mother. The same rules about admissibility that applies to every immigrant will apply to her.

The big thing is that becoming a Legal Permanent Resident means that the person intends to be a permanent resident of the US. Entering with the intent of just being a tourist may be a violation subject to revocation of the green card. Also, an LPR is obligates her to file US income tax returns. Furthermore, if she spends more time in India than the US, she may be deemed to have abandoned her green card and refuse entry into the US at some time in the future - not going to happen on the first trip.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Exactly right. You would file an I-130 for her; and obtain -after the whole process- an IR-5 immigrant visa. But, that is intended to be a PERMANENT resident in the US; and using it as a tourist visa could be, indeed, a violation of purpose.

[Otto 83]

Since your mother is not in the US, the first step is the I-130 (not the PR/Green Card, that would come later).

The guide for this can be found HERE

[Boiler 46,118]

Not the first time it has been done, an expensive way of getting a visitor visa.

[Dakine 26]

Not the first time it has been done, an expensive way of getting a visitor visa.

Yeah but at the same time it's the only way from some countries like the Philippines.

[toma1 10]

I am a non working US citizen married to a working US citizen and want to apply for Green Card for my mother only not the father. My mothers visitors visa have been rejected 4 times.

She is a principal of a senior secondary school in India.

Well, don't feel too bad. One of my colleagues, a business professor at a US university with an American PhD, an Indian passport, and US permanent residency was refused a tourist visa for the UK recently. Her reason for applying for the visa was to take a student group on a study abroad program. Did they really think this woman might abandon her $130,000/nine month per year job and her student group to go on the dole in London?

It can happen to anyone.

Edited September 19, 2009 by toma1

[Boiler 46,118]

I am a non working US citizen married to a working US citizen and want to apply for Green Card for my mother only not the father. My mothers visitors visa have been rejected 4 times.

She is a principal of a senior secondary school in India.

Well, don't feel too bad. One of my colleagues, a business professor at a US university with an American PhD, an Indian passport, and US permanent residency was refused a tourist visa for the UK recently. Her reason for applying for the visa was to take a student group on a study abroad program. Did they really think this woman might abandon her $130,000/nine month per year job and her student group to go on the dole in London?

It can happen to anyone.

Which suggests there is something you have not mentioned.

[toma1 10]

Which suggests there is something you have not mentioned.

Nothing that I know about.

I think the odds she has a communicable disease, a criminal record, or overstays approaches 0.

[toma1 10]

I have personally had a Vietnamese student with US permanent residency and a job here rejected for a visitor's visa to Hong Kong. I saw her paperwork myself. She had been in the US for years. She had never been to Hong Kong. The reason for applying was to travel on a study abroad tour with me and we were in Hong Kong for only one week. We also visited China and Vietnam. She received a visa from China.

This one is not as bad as the above case, but still...

Edited September 19, 2009 by toma1

[daboyz 36]

I have personally had a Vietnamese student with US permanent residency and a job here rejected for a visitor's visa to Hong Kong. I saw her paperwork myself. She had been in the US for years. She had never been to Hong Kong. The reason for applying was to travel on a study abroad tour with me and we were in Hong Kong for only one week. We also visited China and Vietnam. She received a visa from China.

This one is not as bad as the above case, but still...

Kinda odd Thais don't need a visa for HK, but Vietnam does. I guess the ASEAN thing isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[toma1 10]

Kinda odd Thais don't need a visa for HK, but Vietnam does. I guess the ASEAN thing isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Yeah... and Filipinos don't either--one of the few.