why won't they allow our mother to come??

[moniantu 0]

We are US citizens for many years--yet they will not let our widowed mother/mother-in-law come for a visit to the US. She has documentation but because she was nervous she talked a bit too much and they said "she did not give an authentic interview". They act as though they are playing God! She has applied three times and been denied--anybody out there who can give us some advice? I keep hearing about Amnesty laws to bring foreign born parents for a visit--keyword VISIT--she does not want to live here! Does anybody know about the Amnesty laws being proposed? Thanks!!!!

[sachinky 465]

Tourist visas especially from high fraud countries are always 50/50. Far too many uncles, sisters, nieces overstay. The COs know this. Best thing you can do is to show OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE to demonstrate that you have SIGNIFICANT TIES to your homeland that would COMPEL you to return at the end of your visit. Nothing you can do as a USC. In fact, it probably counts against her that her son is a USC. Let me guess, she's probably widowed, probably unemployed too. It is very easy for the CO to assume that your mother will NOT return to India. Because she essentially has NOTHING to return home to/for.

A tourist visa can only be secured by the applicant themselves. Unless one can remove/negate the cause for denial, one will continue to be denied, no matter HOW many times they apply.

The Amnesty Laws have absolutely nothing to do with tourism/B2 visas. Those are being proposed for granting amnesty to illegal aliens and putting them on the pathway to citizenship.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Wonderful response.

Just one addition: the fact that you both are US citizens is not helpful in convincing the immigration people that your mother will not want to stay with her family in the US. On the contrary. If she had nobody here, why wouldn't she want to return home after a short vacation to the US in order to be reunited with her family?

But with family here in the US, welcoming her with open arms, she's a risk in the eyes of the immigration officials, plain and simple.