Sponsor F1 visa for sibling

[allpartgrey 0]

I came to US on F1 visa 10 years back. I've been working here for last 7 years and recently (~1yr) got my GC.

Now my brother wants to apply for F1 visa. He has got assistantship. However he got rejected in the visa interview. I didn't sponsor him last time.

I've asked him to apply one more time, but this time I'm planning to send the Sponsor letter. I make around 144k and his yearly expense on I20 is only 17k (2k for tuition after after assistantship and 15k for accommodation etc)

Do you guys think it is good idea to Sponsor ? Only negative thing that I can think of is that the consular might deny the visa based on my immigration status.

Please let me know what you guys think.

thank you!

[aaron2020 11,651]

Why was he rejected at the interview?

The school is responsible for checking to make sure the student has sufficient funds. So, he had to pass that requirement before getting the I-20. Having you as a sponsor will not help with that.

You as the sponsor may create more problems if his denial was an inability to show he will return home after finishing his studies. You would be a reason for him to overstay.

[allpartgrey 0]

aaron2020, thanks for your feedback. I'm having same thought, that he might get denied based on what I did.

Btw, for I20 we submitted my 'US' bank account as a Sponsor, but in visa application he presented our parents as Sponsor. Do you think the visa officer noticed the conflict in these two documents ? (from what was summited to University vs What was presented to the visa officer )

Just for clarity, my overstay throughout the period was 'legal'. I was always on a valid visa during my stay.

[canadian_wife 1,826]

I think you might appear to be a tie to the US for your brother

Why was the visa denied in the first place?

good luck

[allpartgrey 0]

canadian_wife, thanks for your response. The visa officer said the Income source documents were not enough to meet the bank balance presented. This is just ridiculous. And the worst part is, they don't even give ~10 seconds to the application to clarify. He is applying again with some additional documents, hopefully it will work out this time. Not submitting my documents this time.

thx to all for chiming in