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Hi,

I'm US citizen, sponsored for my wife in VN and she arrived USA last November and currently holding a 10-yr Green Card.

We're expecting our first baby and my wife has only her mother in Vietnam (her dad passed away a few years ago).

We wish to have her mother here to help us during this time, say 6-month visit.

Please advise the "right way", steps by steps, to have her mother here in the USA for 6-month visit. Shoud my wife or I do the paperwork for faster processing?

Thank you very much.

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Your mother-in-law would need to apply for a visitor's visa.

You would have no involvement in the process.

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Someone has mentioned his friend did similar thing about 6 yrs ago when the wife was pregnant.

However, his USA-Citizen friend first wrote an Invitation to Visit and submitted to US Embassy in HCMC and copied the mother in VN. Then the US Embassy proceeded, contacted the mother for interview, etc..

Has the right procedure changed such that the US Citizen did not initiate the Invitation?

Please advise. thanks.

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Someone has mentioned his friend did similar thing about 6 yrs ago when the wife was pregnant.

However, his USA-Citizen friend first wrote an Invitation to Visit and submitted to US Embassy in HCMC and copied the mother in VN. Then the US Embassy proceeded, contacted the mother for interview, etc..

Has the right procedure changed such that the US Citizen did not initiate the Invitation?

Please advise. thanks.

Your mother-in-law would have to apply for a visitor visa and from my understanding your role has no involvement in the process. However, It is easy for old people with property + other assets.

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Write an invitation letter, mention a clear reason for the trip (you have a good one right there) and you will be the sponsor for her entire trip. Once she receive the letter, she can apply for a visitor visa from the consulate in VN. The process is pretty simple and you can help her do it.

http://vietnam.usembassy.gov/niv-apply.html

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