Parental visit from Philippines

[titotomas 0]

Hi folks,

I was hoping someone could give me a rough idea of what the costs would be as well as the timeline we could expect if we were to try to get my wife's mom to visit us here in the U.S. from the Philippines. We aren't wanting her to be able to immigrate for good as she has a life, home, and family back there, but only to come for a visit. We'd start with the I-130 as our only avenue, correct? I'm looking at the USCIS processing chart and it LOOKS like they are working on I-130's that were submitted prior to October, 2005. By my calculation that adds up to five years before we could ever hope to SEE a visa. That sound about right? It also looks like that particular form would be $355 to file followed by others. Also right? What other if any avenues might we explore?

Hoping someone can help with a little insight into this. Someone (or a couple of someones) in my wife's circle told her that it could be done in a few months or under a year, and this (as far as I know baseless info) has unfortunately caused a conflict.

Avenues to explore for a visit of a couple of months? Processing times? Costs associated with?

Oh yeah, for some reason I've never been able to get OUR timeline adjusted here at VJ, but Riza is a U.S. citizen herself now, and has been since 4/2009.

Advice gratefully accepted.

T & R

Edited November 9, 2010 by titotomas

[Inky 1,110]

An I-130 is the wrong thing.. thats bringing her mother here to LIVE.

Her mother would need to apply for a visitor visa to the US.

Edit to add the website showing you the visitor visa application stuff for phils http://manila.usembassy.gov/wwwhniv7.html

Edited November 9, 2010 by Inky