Bringing Fiancees Family to USA

[bostonaperture 0]

Hello all,

Thanks for all the help in prior issues. Everyone here is so knowledgeable and helpful...

Not sure if i posted this is the correct place, but i was wondering. My Fiancee is currently on the L1B visa working here in the USA. It's expired. She's renewing as we speak. We are planning to marry later this year, but would like for her parents to be here first to meet me once.

I'm a full US Citizen born and raised here. We'd love to bring her Mom and Dad over here from India. Is it better than her parent make her a point of contact or me? We've never done this before and we heard some horror stories from friends yesterday with their parents trying to visit the USA from India. Not sure why it's so difficult. One would think you could just apply for a tourist visa and go. But from what we are hearing from other people, apparently the Indian Gov is restricting who leaves and why.

Any help is hugely appreciated as always.

-B

Edited June 27, 2011 by bostonaperture

[Jojo92122 1,924]

Don't know anything about the Indian government not letting their own citizens leave their country. If an Indian has a valid visitor visa to the US, would the Indian government actually prevent that person from leaving?

There is nothing you or your fiancee can do to apply or petition visitor visas for her parents. They must apply for visitor visas on their own at the US Embassy/Consulate in India. Every foreign national entering the US is presumed to have the intent to immigrate. Her parents will have to show strong ties to India as evidence that they have solid reasons to return after their trip to the US and overcome the presumption of immigration.

The best you and your fiancee can do is provide them with an invitation to the wedding, a letter addressed to them explaining why you want them to visit the US, and an offer to pay their expenses if they don't have the resources to pay their own way. The US Embassy/Consulate may or may not consider these as supporting documents. The primary evidence will be her parents' ties to India.

[Darnell 8,478]

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[Jojo92122 1,924]

Hello all,

Thanks for all the help in prior issues. Everyone here is so knowledgeable and helpful...

Not sure if i posted this is the correct place, but i was wondering. My Fiancee is currently on the L1B visa working here in the USA. It's expired. She's renewing as we speak. We are planning to marry later this year, but would like for her parents to be here first to meet me once.

I'm a full US Citizen born and raised here. We'd love to bring her Mom and Dad over here from India. Is it better than her parent make her a point of contact or me? We've never done this before and we heard some horror stories from friends yesterday with their parents trying to visit the USA from India. Not sure why it's so difficult. One would think you could just apply for a tourist visa and go. But from what we are hearing from other people, apparently the Indian Gov is restricting who leaves and why.

Any help is hugely appreciated as always.

-B

It's hard because people who get tourist visas abuse them. The number of people who overstay their tourist visa and illegally immigrate to the US is the reason why it is so hard for everyone who wants a tourist visa to get one. If I was an illegal immigrant, I rather fly into the US with a tourist visa then endure the smugglers or illegally enter the US with the risk that the US Border Patrol will hunt me down.

Why would anyone deal with smugglers who put them in cramp vans and shipping containers endure that to illegally immigrate to the US if one can simply go apply and get a tourist visa?

Edited June 27, 2011 by Jojo92122

[Harsh_77 716]

First: Indian government does not decide who leave and who does not leave country as long as the person travelling has the valid travel documents, including passport and visas.

Not everyone qualifies for visa, coz there are millions of ppl all over the world waiting in line to enter US and some of them when granted a tourist visa they abuse the visa and continue to stay in US illegally.

Hence not everyone is granted a visa, there are some criteria one has to fulfill to get a visa for US.

You cannot be point of contact nor your details could be used as the primary person, since your fiancées parents are traveling for their daughter’s wedding they she would be the primary person.