US Citizen wants to Immigrate Parents to US

[Boiler 46,157]

Most people who apply for a visitors visa get one.

Just going by the threads on this site they are far too generous.

Anyway OP wants parents to work so they need to go for an immigrant visa.

[msbau764 245]

Most people who apply for a visitors visa get one.

Just going by the threads on this site they are far too generous.

Anyway OP wants parents to work so they need to go for an immigrant visa.

That is outlandish. Most people that apply for visitor's visas that are from developed countries get one. It is very difficult for the majority of the world to receive visitor's visas as the majority of the world isn't developed. Edited November 30, 2014 by msbau764

[Boiler 46,157]

Last time I looked Mexico had a better issue rate for a B than the UK.

Just look at the numbers.

[msbau764 245]

Last time I looked Mexico had a better issue rate for a B than the UK.

Just look at the numbers.

Since when is Mexico the majority of the world? You can travel to the US from the UK with no problem whatsoever. Get out of here.

[Boiler 46,157]

Reminds me of a post I read on another forum for an English guy who applied during the last amnesty. He was told by the security guard it was for them not him.

Pretty sure that the country issued the most B's is jot a developed what ever that means country but Mexico.

[KazuriSana 324]

Most people who apply for a visitors visa get one.

Although this claim is technically correct and most countries have a B-visa refusal of under 50%, quite a number of countries, especially Third World countries, have a high percentage of refusals.

For example, for 2013 - Afghanistan, Ghana, Laos, The Gambia, Tuvalu, Somalia, Senegal, Djibouti, Cuba, etc had a B-Visa refusal rate above 50%. Indeed, above 70%. A lot of European, South American, and some very rich Middle East countries have very small refusal percentages. These include Qatar's 1.8% and Oman's 2.3% in the Middle East; Uruguay at 2.8% and Chile at 1.6 in South America; and, brace yourself - Nauru as well as San Marino with a 0.0% refusal rate!

Now, on the other hand, I think it is unfair to start calling the embassy/consular staffers idiots, stupid, etc. They certainly have reasons when they turn down an applicant while approving another. These visas are actually not entitlements or individual rights. They are privileges. The thing is to keep trying, one way or other.

[Iml3g3nd 3]

None of these posts contribute to what I asked in OP. I wanted to know step by step procedure of going through immigration to get my parents here to visit. I did not want a debate on which visa to get. I know which one to get. I asked how to go about it and how the procedure is.

Now this thread has become a circle jerk. So if you know anything about this procedure then post and contribute otherwise please take this debate somewhere else. i don`t need to know about tourist visas, thanks!

[Boiler 46,157]

Do you mean this link http://www.visajourney.com/content/immigration-parents?

Here you are.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

None of these posts contribute to what I asked in OP. I wanted to know step by step procedure of going through immigration to get my parents here to visit. I did not want a debate on which visa to get. I know which one to get. I asked how to go about it and how the procedure is.

Now this thread has become a circle jerk. So if you know anything about this procedure then post and contribute otherwise please take this debate somewhere else. i don`t need to know about tourist visas, thanks!

No OP, you asked about having your parents immigrate, not visit. The title of your thread even says so. You were given pretty good instructions on the first page and now Boiler has just given them to you as well.

[Iml3g3nd 3]

No OP, you asked about having your parents immigrate, not visit. The title of your thread even says so. You were given pretty good instructions on the first page and now Boiler has just given them to you as well.

Maybe if you have actually read my posts. I am asking for immigration steps, because thats only option left for me to have my parents come visit us here. They were denied other options. And I have read those instructions before making this thread. They are very brief at best. They just say apply through I-130 and then if approved, parents can go and get visa. I specifically asked some questions, which were not clear from instructions, I wanted to know the timeline and steps during whole process. I specified all this in OP.

If you guys have nothing else to contribute than post same link again and again, if you can not elaborate actual steps on this process, answer questions I asked, then please don`t spam. Maybe someone who has gone through this process when applying for their parents, can post and answer my questions.

I just wanted a timeline of events that happen throughout this process, like we all have timelines in our signatures for different visas. Is it so hard to understand?

[Iml3g3nd 3]

Here you are.

You just quoted my own post I posted that link earlier. I read it. Its not elaborate on the steps. Its same instruction copied from USCIS website. I just wanted more information.

[Boiler 46,157]

According to your time line you went through the same process.

[Iml3g3nd 3]

According to your time line you went through the same process.

I was wondering if its exactly same process and timeline.

[Boiler 46,157]

Timeline's vary.

Process is similar.

[NickD 203]

Getting a tourist visa to come to the USA is easy if you are rich and famous, own property in your home country, and leaving other family members behind. They want to make sure you have good reasons to return. Also helps if you own a private jet, and personal friends with like former President Bush like the Bin Laden family.

But if you don't own property, do not have a good job to return to nor other family members, have relatives in the US that could house you, may be next to impossible to even get a tourist visa. Even if they do get one, also are issue a I-94 that limits their visit, but apparently this is never checked as the vast majority of illegals here are due to overstayed visas. Not that many cross that dangerous desert south of the border.

Can always apply for the I-130 with proof you can support your relatives, but this is only the first step. Then its turned over to the National Visa Center where each country is given a limited number of visas to come here as determined by the executive branch. In our case, my stepson is in Latin America that starts just south of the US border and goes clear down to the tip of South America. The limits for this year is a total of 2,500 persons from this section of the world. Be far better off if he lived in Africa.

And has no relatives period in his home country, does not own property, and the only relatives he has is his mother and sister that are living here and now both US citizens. Even though he was a dependent of his mother, I could not petition for him because he was barely over 21. In terms of a degree, does have his masters now, but that doesn't make any difference, so he can't even get a tourist visa to visit here.

I petitioned for his mother and sister 12 years ago, sister was under 21, no problem.