Sponser your parent and your parent sponsers young sibiling.

[jonnydreamer 0]

I have a question. My wife is filipino. Which i just learned means shes totally screwed at sponsering her sibilings with the 25 year wait time which is totally heart breaking for us. So I have an idea that could at least but a bandage on the gapping wound.

 

If i got this correct, is it possible to sponser her mother for a green card, which should take about a year, and when her mother obtains her green card, her mother then applys for a green card to sponser her daughter (my wifes 8 year old younger sister), for a child permanent resident status? So that way at least her baby sister can get here without waiting 20 years if her mom first obtains a green card then sponseres her daughter (my wifes baby sister).

 

Because my wifes mom wont come here without her youngest child. It makes sense to me that her mom should be able to sponser her youngest daught once she obtains a green card. So do you guys think this will be possible?

Edited April 1, 2017 by jonnydreamer

[Hypnos 6,578]

It may be possible.

 

When/if your wife is a US citizen she can petition for her mother, which will take about a year. The mother can then enter on her immigrant visa and immediately apply for a re-entry permit, as well as filing her own petition under F2A for her second daughter. This would take about two years for her priority date to become current.

 

Your wife could return to the Philippines once she's done biometrics for her re-entry permit and filed the I-130, but must make sure she maintains her permanent residence in the US. If she is ever considered to have abandoned her LPR status then any petition she had filed would be considered null and void.

Edited April 1, 2017 by Hypnos

[jonnydreamer 0]

I understood your first point and I also found the answer on this link

 

 https://www.us-immigration.com/blog/can-minor-siblings-of-us-citizens-immigrate-through-parents-petitions

 

But you 2nd paragraph i dont understand, my wife has about 2 years befor she can obtain citizen ship, but why would my wife want/need to return to ph after her biometrics is done and apply for reentry? How does that fit in to all this?

Edited April 1, 2017 by jonnydreamer

[Hypnos 6,578]

Sorry I meant your wife's mother, not your wife.

[Unlockable 7,315]

Yes, that is commonly done with immigrants from countries with extremely long wait times for siblings.

 

Bear in mind there will be a brief period where your mother-in-law will have to leave her daughter behind so she could come to the US and gain permanent status. Like @Hypnos mentioned she could then return. It is essential that your MIL gets a reentry permit BEFORE she goes back to the PHL to care for her daughter.  Since it will still be 2 more years before your wife is eligible to apply for naturalization it will still be roughly 6 - 7 years before your wife's sister is here in the states, but it is a lot better than 20+ years.

 

Just a minor note... make sure your wife doesn't vote or even register to vote until after she is a citizen. We have seen an unfortunate high number of permanent residents make the critical mistake lately.

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

  You will also have to hope that the parent visa isn't cut before than , although Trumps reforms are not going well , both the parent and sibling classes may disappear.

[Hypnos 6,578]

Sibling may be cut--and has been on the chopping block for some time--but I don't think parents, as immediate relatives, will be changed. 

 

But Trump is so capricious, nothing would surprise me at this point.