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Filed: Country: Thailand
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I have a filipina GF living with me here in Thailand. I want her to come to the U.S. with me, both of us leaving from Manila next spring. A friend of mine owns a real estate company and can write a letter requesting her to join the company as a translator for filipinos looking to own or rent property where I live. Using that letter of employment, what's the likelihood she'll get the visa and second, what's the procedure, how long does it take and any other information that could help us?

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She can't legally work on a tourist visa. She'll need to prove ties to Thailand/Philippines which will convince the consular officer that she will leave the U.S. by the time her tourist visa expires.

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ireland
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If you want her to get a tourist visa, she needs to proof ties to home. NOT ties to the USA- besides, as mentioned, cannot work on a tourist visa.

She is not going to get a work visa based on the scenario above.

If you want to move her to the US permanently, get married and petition for a CR-1 spousal visa.

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If the U.S. Embassy in Manila is as tough as the Embassy in Bangkok, there's no way. She has an 11-year old daughter in the Philippines, but that's it. She lives with me in Thailand. We're SOL. If we get married later, we can get a CR-1, no problem, in 3 months.

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Honestly Manila is at least as tough as Bangkok.

The "employment" route would require the friend's company to sponsor her which means not only employ her but also cover the cost (immigration fees and lawyer). Before you even get to that point they would need to prove that there is no US Citizen or LPR that could do the job. Then if it were approved they'd have to actually employ her and pay her a fair wage.

Tourist Visa ain't gonna happen for a Filipina who's single with weak ties to home (a single child is weak by USEM standards). She would need to demonstrate a great job with substantial income and assets (savings and/or property) to prove strong ties.

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Agree, forget it. Never going to happen. Why not get married and go the CR-1 route? Or even the K1 route. If she's been living with you already, start documenting that for either route if you decide to go that way.

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I sort of knew this situation mirrors that of the U.S. Embassy in Thailand. Here's what I DON'T understand. Whenever I visited the Philippines, I read in the local newspapers many ads inviting filipinas to register with an agency to work(as domestics, as nurses, as teachers) in the U.S. No problem. (I had heard they do this for an exorbitant fee). If a work permit is to hard to get, how do they do it?

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Back in the day the US used to import a lot of nurses and domestics rom the PH but that ship left port like a decade ago. Unfortunately it's still "Common Knowledge" in the Philippines that this is a viable way to get to the US (despite the truth of the matter) so there are agencies who take advantage of the ignorance of others. I'm sure some of the clients end-up in Canada or other countries (like the middle east) after getting some song and dance about being rejected by the US because of something they did wrong.

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I sort of knew this situation mirrors that of the U.S. Embassy in Thailand. Here's what I DON'T understand. Whenever I visited the Philippines, I read in the local newspapers many ads inviting filipinas to register with an agency to work(as domestics, as nurses, as teachers) in the U.S. No problem. (I had heard they do this for an exorbitant fee). If a work permit is to hard to get, how do they do it?

There are lots of illegal recruiters in the Philippines. How many who go through the "agencies" actually get to go to the US?

In fact, a lot of Nursing graduates ended up in call centers because of oversaturation....

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There are a ton of fake agencies scamming Filipinos. Friends of my wife have fallen in with these outfits that charge money and put the applicants through all these costs and never come forward with a job at all. There might still be a real job here and there through legit agencies to get a nursing job in the USA, but you're not going to see them advertised. Desperate people are easy victims for scams, and there are enough real jobs for over seas that Filipinos have reason to believe these ads are real.

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