Mother-in-law Tourist Visa

[Arindam 0]

Hi,

I want to bring my mother-in-law in USA on tourist visa. I and my wife are on H1B and H4 visa respectively from May 2011. My bank balance in USA remains very poor at the end of month (100$) though my monthly gross is over 5000$. The reason is I send money to India.

My mother-in-law is financially strong and her bank balance is over 10 Lakhs INR from last 6 months as she has received the amount via Insurance after the death of my father-in-law this year. She receives 5000 INR every month as the rent from her house which is on rent given to a family.

In this scenario can she apply as a self sponsor and if that is so do I need to send i-134 form?

My concern is if I sposnor seeing my bank balance the visa can get rejected.

Please reply as soon as possible, very urgent!

[Boiler 46,013]

A Visitor Visa does not have a sponsor.

[aleful 1,905]

Hi,

I want to bring my mother-in-law in USA on tourist visa. I and my wife are on H1B and H4 visa respectively from May 2011. My bank balance in USA remains very poor at the end of month (100$) though my monthly gross is over 5000$. The reason is I send money to India.

My mother-in-law is financially strong and her bank balance is over 10 Lakhs INR from last 6 months as she has received the amount via Insurance after the death of my father-in-law this year. She receives 5000 INR every month as the rent from her house which is on rent given to a family.

In this scenario can she apply as a self sponsor and if that is so do I need to send i-134 form?

My concern is if I sposnor seeing my bank balance the visa can get rejected.

Please reply as soon as possible, very urgent!

she has to qualify on her own, not only financially, but she also has to show strong ties to her country.

[Jojo92122 1,924]

Hi,

I want to bring my mother-in-law in USA on tourist visa. I and my wife are on H1B and H4 visa respectively from May 2011. My bank balance in USA remains very poor at the end of month (100$) though my monthly gross is over 5000$. The reason is I send money to India.

My mother-in-law is financially strong and her bank balance is over 10 Lakhs INR from last 6 months as she has received the amount via Insurance after the death of my father-in-law this year. She receives 5000 INR every month as the rent from her house which is on rent given to a family.

In this scenario can she apply as a self sponsor and if that is so do I need to send i-134 form?

My concern is if I sposnor seeing my bank balance the visa can get rejected.

Please reply as soon as possible, very urgent!

Your MIL applies for a visitor visa on her own. She needs to show strong ties to India to overcome the presumption that she has the intent to immigrate.

Your financial situation does not matter.

[ceadsearc 516]

The other posts have summed it up. At most, you can provide her with a letter stating that you will be providing her accomodations if that is the case.

[HI-UG 4]

My wife (a conditional permanent resident) is in the last trimester of a high-risk pregnancy, and she and I (native-born US citizen) would like her mom to come visit after the baby is born.

Her mom definitely has strong ties to their country - she has a house, works there, six of her seven kids still live there, and four of those seven are still in school.

I don't think she has much money in the bank, though - partly because of the costs of school, and partly because inflation there has been high lately.

We sent her an invitation letter, offering to pay for everything during her trip. I'm guessing that maybe we shouldn't have offered that, since some of the posts above make it sound like they want her to be gainfully-enough employed there that she can pay her own way here and back, and not feel any need to work while here.

She just had her interview for a tourist visa, and was denied. I'm waiting for her to get one of the kids to take a snap of the letter and email it to us so I can see whether it's a 214(b) or 221(g) rejection... but if it's 214(b) due to not having money in the bank, then we might kinda be stuck.

Any thoughts on all this? My wife is keeping calm on the outside, but I know she's very upset about it, partly because she got turned down for a tourist visa twice before I finally went the fiancee visa route!

Thanks for any advice!

[HI-UG 4]

Oh, and from my wife talking to my MIL, the only thing they asked her that she didn't know the exact answer to was what I did for work. My job doesn't even exist in their homeland, so...

But! I don't think that is grounds for denying the visa... failing to meet the criteria for strong ties to home would be, but not being able to explain what your son-in-law does at his job? Not so much.

[ceadsearc 516]

The money thing could be a factor. Also, did your MIL mention that she was coming to assist after a high-risk pregnancy? That's actually a no-no, as it can be considered "working" to assist with Mom or baby.

[Noah Lot 391]

My wife (a conditional permanent resident) is in the last trimester of a high-risk pregnancy, and she and I (native-born US citizen) would like her mom to come visit after the baby is born.

Her mom definitely has strong ties to their country - she has a house, works there, six of her seven kids still live there, and four of those seven are still in school.

I don't think she has much money in the bank, though - partly because of the costs of school, and partly because inflation there has been high lately.

We sent her an invitation letter, offering to pay for everything during her trip. I'm guessing that maybe we shouldn't have offered that, since some of the posts above make it sound like they want her to be gainfully-enough employed there that she can pay her own way here and back, and not feel any need to work while here.

She just had her interview for a tourist visa, and was denied. I'm waiting for her to get one of the kids to take a snap of the letter and email it to us so I can see whether it's a 214(b) or 221(g) rejection... but if it's 214(b) due to not having money in the bank, then we might kinda be stuck.

Any thoughts on all this? My wife is keeping calm on the outside, but I know she's very upset about it, partly because she got turned down for a tourist visa twice before I finally went the fiancee visa route!

Thanks for any advice!

If she mentioned babysitting/child care in some fashion, that could easily have led to a denial.

[Boiler 46,013]

None of us wee there so we can only speculate.

[HI-UG 4]

When my wife first wrote the invitation letter, she used terminology about helping with the baby - and after reading some other threads on here, I edited it and took that part out!

But I don't know what her mom might have said - unfortunately she's 10,000 miles away so we can't easily coach her right before the interview.