The best visa outcome to apply for ???

[samira1973 0]

Thank you so much for your answers very appreciated .

Thanks again

[HFM181818 750]

There is nothing to say that will change a single thing about this particular process....and who was whining? Me? (no) You? (yes). On average, there is a 12 year wait for siblings of USCs....period. Unfair? To whom? Congress makes the laws, not me. If you don't like the laws, lobby Congress (but unless you can offer them hundreds of thousands of dollars each in campaign contributions, good luck)....but no matter what anyone says in response to any of your posts, the laws and the facts remain the same. The process cannot be sped up; the eventual priority date of your sister's petition depends solely on the date you submitted it, whenever that was. There is NO way to get your petition to the top of the pile, no matter how much you complain or how much others provide some useless piece of information about a particular form. You, like so many others, are looking for some 'magic answer' that will circumvent any or all of our current immigration laws on your sister's behalf. There are NONE. Hand wringing, whining, complaining - all accomplish absolutely nothing. You can try to claim that your sister is the most honest human being on the planet, second only to Mother Theresa (who's dead, BTW) and it means nothing when and if she applies for a B2 visa sometime in the future. Please review any other post that allegedly offered some insight to the process....none of them have any bearing on the current situation. Filing dates of petition X or form Y are not affected by your unhappiness or someone else's ability to hotlink some information sheet on those forms. If anyone on this site had the real deal, the one and only Magic Answer or Solution, they could make millions overnight (including me). At the end of the day, like it or lump it, there are no Magic Answers nor Solutions. Welcome to the real world.

[JFH 12,191]

Yes, I did travel before with the family, but let me tell it was very very hard especially a long distance.

Where is you brother coming from and his traveling to the USA his alone or with kids and wife?

I just don't like it when people say oh you can travel to see your family. I think this people don't know anything about traveling or my be never been anywhere outside their state not even their country to know how hard to travel especially if you a big family and how expensive .

I work in air travel. I'm well aware of the costs. My question as to whether it would be easier was not related to finances. It was related to the paperwork.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

..it will be far more likely that Congress will one day entirely eliminate this visa category as it serves very little useful purpose..

To be perfectly honest I wish that they would. Perhaps it's western world thinking but I just don't understand bringing your entire family over to immigrate with you. Especially those who think that they need their cousins, uncles, aunts etc to come with them. My parents immigrated on a work visa necking lpr's and never did I see a need to immigrate with them or have my sister come. I had zero plans until I met someone here. I believe eliminating these categories might speed things up for immediate relatives and fiancées.

[JayJayH 546]

To be perfectly honest I wish that they would. Perhaps it's western world thinking but I just don't understand bringing your entire family over to immigrate with you. Especially those who think that they need their cousins, uncles, aunts etc to come with them. My parents immigrated on a work visa necking lpr's and never did I see a need to immigrate with them or have my sister come. I had zero plans until I met someone here. I believe eliminating these categories might speed things up for immediate relatives and fiancées.

HFM181818 is absolutely correct in that the sibling category is more likely to be eliminated than sped up. The "Gang of Eight" immigration reform that passed the Senate (and died in the House due to the amnesty provision) back in 2013 actually sought to eliminate the sibling category altogether, along with "children" over the age of 30 and Diversity Visas.

Any new immigration reform is likely to focus more on highly skilled employment based immigration than family based immigration.

Samira1973: The reason sibling petitions take so long is that they're just not considered a priority. Immigration laws are in place for multiple reasons - One of which is to control and predict the flow of immigrants coming to the United States. With tens of millions of applicants for various immigrant visas each year, it is impossible for the U.S. to (1) adjudicate them all, and (2) admit all of them. This is why preference categories exist. Siblings are not considered "immediate" relatives, and petitions thus take a lot longer. It is crucial to any family that your spouse or minor children immigrate quickly. It is rarely (if ever) crucial that your adult brother or sister does.

I'm not complaining. Ironically, my ex wife acquired citizenship through her mother, who again was petitioned by her sister.

Edited January 2, 2016 by JayJayH

[HFM181818 750]

the "F" categories of immigrant visas stands for 'family-based.' Each group has a different annual allocation of visas available worldwide and limited to 7% maximum of that total for a given country. First are minor children of citizens, then spouses and under 21 children of LPRs, then adult children of USCs and finally, dead last, are siblings of USCs, which get the least allocation but have the longest line, so to speak, waiting for their priority date to be reached. Mexico and the PI can look forward to roughly a 20 year wait...other countries around 12-13. NOTHING can be done to speed things up...there are just too few available slots but thousands more people waiting in line, which causes the backlog. There are NO exceptions for anyone to jump ahead in line. And this is a category that will likely wind up on the chopping block, along with the diversity visa (a fraud-ridden mess).

Fair or not (to you, the OP), this situation will not change in your favor, no matter how many boxes of Kleenex you use dabbing up tears.

Thousands of other USCs are in the same boat. Congress will (and has) tune(d) this category out.

From information YOU supplied, it does not appear that your sister will have a ghost of a chance getting a B2 visa nor a student visa and she lacks the skills and education for any skilled worker visa. Not everyone qualifies....that's just the way it is....as I mentioned before, there are NO magic solutions to get her to the US, save for a questionable marriage to someone (which will come under scrutiny as well).

[JFH 12,191]

I think it's just one of those things we have to take into consideration when we decide to move to a new country. When I first met my husband I had no idea he would one day be my husband but as things progressed there were many considerations along the way. Along with the usual "can I cope with his need to watch zombie shows (which I hate) all the time?" there were also questions such as "how do I feel about leaving my homeland and not having my family close to me anymore?". But we are adults and this is our life. I don't need my parents and siblings with me all the time. I will welcome the with open arms if they come to visit (unlikely that they will be able to afford it very often, if at all) and I will save up to go back to England from time to time. But this is the choice we have made. And we have to live with it. Life isn't perfect.

Edited January 3, 2016 by JFH

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Exactly my point JFH. These visa classes for family reunification do not make much sense for adults.

[Boiler 46,298]

Does any other First World country allow Sibling sponsorship? I do not know of any?

[JFH 12,191]

The U.K. certainly doesn't.

[samira1973 0]

Do you need a visa if you traveling from the U.K. to the U-S-A ?

Thanks

[Hypnos 6,578]

Requiring a visa is usually based on whichever country you are a passport holder of, not where you are coming from.

[JFH 12,191]

Do you need a visa if you traveling from the U.K. to the U-S-A ?

Thanks

I would answer the question if I believed it to be a general request for information. I do suspect that the OP is asking this purely to "prove" that the British members here have it "easier" with regards to family visits because of the VWP and I'm not getting into that debate with someone who knows nothing about our personal circumstances or that of our families (for what it's worth, my brother is ineligible for the VWP due a stupid decision at the age of 19 but that's by the by). Based on the response Boiler got to his comment about his brother's visit, I feel the OP is trying to score points as to whose situation is worse. I don't play that game. I understand the OP is angry and bitter about the long wait her sister will face but that's nothing to do with us and, as has previously been mentioned, it's unusual for a country to allow siblings to petition so the fact that she has a chance to bring her sister in at all is more than other countries offers its citizens.

OP, if you genuinely need to know about the requirements for British citizens travelling to the US, there is plenty of information available about that on this and other websites.

[Boiler 46,298]

He could have been thinking if she could get to the UK she could just travel to the US without issue? Who knows?

[samira1973 0]

Thanks for the info and taking the time to answer the questions, and by the way BOILER you are right about what just you said that is the whole idea of the question and thank you for your understanding.

Thanks anyway no hard feelings.