Tourist visa-ties to country

[jwcir12016 32]

My mother-in-law and sister-in-law want to visit us for 2 weeks at the end of Nov.  They are from Peru.  All of their assests to prove strong ties are true, just not what we consider "official".  They have a family restaurant, but it has no official paperwork.  His mother has a home, but it is not in her name, it is in my husband's and his father's.  My sister-in-law lives with her inlaws who do own ther home, but she has no claim to it.  Their restaurant is also out of there.  Anyone have experience getting a tourist visa for very impoverished family members who do live a typical lifestyle for their country?   If they provide all those evidences how will the embassy look at it?

[millefleur 5,046]

Honestly, the chances seem really slim going by ties alone, but I don't know how strict Peru is with tourist visas. They can apply and see what happens. Keep in mind, in most cases, the CO does not look at supporting docs so they will probably judge everything by the DS-160 & the interview alone.

[jwcir12016 32]

3 minutes ago, millefleur said:

Honestly, the chances seem really slim going by ties alone, but I don't know how strict Peru is with tourist visas. They can apply and see what happens. Keep in mind, in most cases, the CO does not look at supporting docs so they will probably judge everything by the DS-160 & the interview alone.

Thanks for your response.  Just wasn't sure how people with families from developing countries make those ties.

[millefleur 5,046]

Just now, jwcir12016 said:

Thanks for your response.  Just wasn't sure how people with families from developing countries make those ties.

It's hard. Even with strong ties sometimes, just the mere presence of relatives in the States ends up in a denial. I think it's still worth having them apply, you never know, they might get approved by mere chance. It's happened before. I've known people here with rather weak ties who got approved, but those people didn't have relatives in the States. It seems like if you have relatives in the US, it's automatically a thousand times harder.