What are our chances of getting B1 Visa

[Velvety 4]

Your mother in law shoukd visit Canada every year and then later on apply for USA tourist visa. It will definitely help her when they see that she has traveled abroad and comes back. I have a couple of friends who are women, young and single that were approved for tourist visa because they had traveled to Canada and England before and obviously came back to Brazil. They dont own property and have steady jobs.

Dont have her change her original story.

It really depends on the countries' embassy. It really depends on WHO they get interviewed by. I live in Brazil with my husband. He has one sister living in my state (California). When we were dating, he was denied the tourist visa because he was single, no ties and they asked him if he had any relatives so he said yes, a sister. Fast foward to now: my mother in law had never been abroad and never visited her daughter ever since she left (8 years ago) she applied for visa and was approved... To my shock. No property, never worked, below poverty line, lives in a slum etc. i guess it was granted only because they saw that in those 8 years she had no interest in Going to see her daughter. If it were any other person, they would try to immigrate in the first chance they'd get. So interviews are fairly relative like I said.

[SalSterling 10]

I also think the same that your mother in law should visit few times between her country and to Canada and then apply from her home country for a US visit visa. For your sister in law I'd advise her to first finish her original one year of studies in Canada and then apply for advance study in US and after the admission apply for F-1 visa OR after finishing a year in Canada then go further study within Canada and then apply for a visit visa from Canada.