Long Term Stay - Mom

[ashariff 0]

Dear All,

If someone can help me with some advice, it will be of real great help. Let me explain my situation. I am working in H1 for past many years in States. My brother is also working on L1. We lost our father this year and now my mother is living all by herself. She currently holds a Visitor visa and generally travels back and forth in every 6 months. She is having many medical conditions and we would like to keep her with us here in States on long term basis. She is not going to work and we will take care of all her medical and stay expenses. With visitor visa, she can only stay for 6 months and then stay out of the country for another 6 months. Its becoming really difficult for her to travel at this age.

Do anyone of you have any advice or solution for this situation ? Is there anything we can do, so that she continues to live with us in states ? I am willing to pay any kind of expenditure and fees.

Please advice.

Regards, Ameer

[aaron2020 11,651]

There is no solution through you or your brother for your mother to live in the US.

You and your brother are here on non-immigrant visas. Thus, you do not have the ability to petition for your mother.

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If money is not an issue, then your mother should consider the EB-5 visa. If she has $500,000 to invest in a US Regional Center, then she can get a green card.

Edited December 16, 2013 by aaron2020

[aaron2020 11,651]

By the way, your mother risks losing her visitor visa for living in the US. Legally, she can visit the US which is not the same as living here. In your original post, you stated if there anything you could do so that she could continue to live with us in the US. This is a violation of the terms of her visitor visa.

Edited December 16, 2013 by aaron2020

[RhettVoe 282]

A tourist visa is for tourism...yet it continues to amaze how many people believe that a tourist visa is really:

a) a substitute for non Amcits to bring any relative they wish to the US to live and work and perhaps even get medical and educational benefits, if that same person cannot be a derivative status due to our laws..

b) a substitute work visa for Korean break dancers

c) a substitute work visa so relatives can provide free child care for their adult children

d) a substitute immigrant visa so people can circumvent international adoption laws

e) a visa to be used to circumvent wait times for immigrant visas to be processed, by claiming they had 'no intentions' of getting married (yet about 98.6% do...odd coincidence)

f) a catchall visa to help any disenfranchised individual living in a developing country to come to the US to work, study or whatever, and thus jump ahead of everyone else on the planet...

Now, as I read the INA, a tourist visa does not have any of these privileges attached to the holder of same....why is that so difficult to understand?

[ashariff 0]

Thanks for all valuable inputs.