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rsa1205   0

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My wife and I had a consultation with a lawyer (who we chose not to hire), and they were giving us a questionnaire to fill out. Some of the questions had to do with my wife's parents (who are still here). Will her parents immigration status come up anywhere in the case? Interview? Forms? How do we answer questions about them? Her parents are elderly, and her father is in the late stages of Alzheimer's, so we want to make sure they are protected.

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Inky   1,111

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Like what are you saying they are illegal/overstay in the USA?

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VanessaTony   3,567

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My wife and I had a consultation with a lawyer (who we chose not to hire), and they were giving us a questionnaire to fill out. Some of the questions had to do with my wife's parents (who are still here). Will her parents immigration status come up anywhere in the case? Interview? Forms? How do we answer questions about them? Her parents are elderly, and her father is in the late stages of Alzheimer's, so we want to make sure they are protected.

Regards.

You cannot lie. If "protecting" them means lying then you can't.. well you can but you risk her status, among other things.

Her parents status probably won't come up. You are under no obligation to give our their street address of course but if asked you can't be dishonest, you just don't have to take them there. It's not about her parents, it's about you and her.

Aussie K1 process - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/206016-australian-beneficiaries-packet-3-to-interview-date/
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rsa1205   0

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Another reason we did not hire that lawyer was because he said "You might know where your parents live, but where are they right now? She could be shopping, at the grocery store, etc., therefore you don't know where she is." She is a little worried because her license still has her parents address on it. I always assumed that her parents status would never come up, because as you guys have said, it's about her and I, and no one else. She just wants reassurance that they will be fine.

Penguin_ie Grand Master

Penguin_ie   5,997

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The only way I have seen it come up is if they look at wedding pics, and her parents aren't in them, they may ask why not and do the parents approve of the relationship.

Bye: Penguin

Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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Kathryn41 Grand Master

Kathryn41   3,205

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Based on OPs comments it does not appear they are adjusting from a K visa so moving this thread to AOS from a work, student & tourist visa forum as the more likely location for this discussion.

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i had the interview recently. They asked us about my parents. (my parents is not in the wedding ceremony picture.)

Q. Where do your parents and brother live?

Q. Have you met her parents?

Q. Have you ever talked with her parents?

Q. Have your parents beed in USA? When is the last time they visited?

Q. Do your parents or brother understand english?

We do not have anthing to hide. So, we told the truth.

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NigeriaorBust   4,087

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Life is a matter of choices. I had a co worker once that resigned from a high paying job because they were going to ask him to get a security clearance and as part of that he would have been required to list all immediate relatives in the US and one of his brothers was illegal. Going to your interview is a coin toss if something about them may come up and you must answer honestly of the non USC may later lose all status. Will it come up , who knows.

This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this.

Brother Hesekiel Mentor

Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Without much fuss . . . you can answer the questions truthfully without being too precise. Under all but the most unusual circumstances, the Immigration Officer at an AOS interview has no interest in the immigration status of the parents.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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Harsh_77 Mentor

Harsh_77   718

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It is logical for them to ask about parents, which I understand. I'm just curious if they ask about their immigration status.

If they are in US they can ask what their status is as well. When I went for my interview they asked about my sister and her status even though she had been married.

 
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