Bringing MOM over, but I'm outside the US

[dmartmar 1]

I was hoping I can be with my mom when she gets to the US. That's why I want to figure this out as early as now. I have to make plans to fly there and stay with her until she gets a GC. Then, she'll have an option to go back to the Philippines or come with me to Germany.

Where does ever living in the US fit in all of this, other than while waiting for a GC?

[Boiler 44,858]

I was hoping I can be with my mom when she gets to the US. That's why I want to figure this out as early as now. I have to make plans to fly there and stay with her until she gets a GC. Then, she'll have an option to go back to the Philippines or come with me to Germany.

Where does ever living in the US fit in all of this, other than while waiting for a GC?

Good point, you have to be Resident in the US if you wish to maintain LPR status.

[Cali Gal CPA 0]

This process takes about an average of 1 year right? So which means that if I submit the applicaton this year, everything *hopefully* will be done late 2007 or early 2008. If plans go well and I finish school next year, I plan to fly to the US and review/sit for the CPA exam in CA. This can either be early to mid 2008. Who knows, I might even get a job with the Big Four and stay if opportunity presents itself.

If this will not be the case, *knock on wood* and Mom gets her GC before I'm able to test for the CPA boards, then she would have options to either stay with my in-laws in CA, fly back home to the Philippines or arrange for an extended stay in Germany - the last 2 I think she'd need a reentry permit. Either way, she will have options.

She plans to maintain LPR status once we're setlled in the US, meanwhile clock is ticking and who knows how long my petition is going to sit somewhere. I still have not received NOA1 and it's been almost a month since I sent the application. If things are slow the way it is, then perhaps Mom can get her GC when we're officially back in the US mid 2009.

So yeah, these are our plans and hopefully, USCIS will cooperate so they pan out