19 year old USC risiding in a foreign country. How to move to USA with my whole family?

[etihad101 0]

Hi. I am a 19 y.o who was born in USA. I have lived in Pakistan with my parents and siblings almost my entire life. Now I would like to move to USA with my parents and siblings. I know I can petition for my parents (i-130) but I am not sure what would happen for my siblings. My siblings are 16, 14, and 12 years old. Would they be automatically covered under my parents petition because they are all minors?! 

[geowrian 22,337]

To add to the above...

Your siblings would not be covered by the petition for your parents. A USC petitioning for a parent is an immediate relative petition, which does not support derivatives. So you would need to petition for each parent separately (and pay the fees for each).

 

As for the siblings...

Option 1) You petition for each of them as a sibling. ETA: ~15 years?

Option 2) Wait until your parents come to the US and get a green card. Then they petition for each of them as an unmarried minor child. ETA: ~2 years from petition filing to interview.

 

Edit: Hmm...there's a possible issue here, too. Since you have to wait until you are 21 to petition for your parents, the 16 year old would likely be 19 or 20 at the time that they can be petitioned. They may age out into F2B category, which has ~10 year wait right now. This really depends on a lot of moving factors that are hard to estimate this far back (processing timelines, when the PD becomes current, etc.).

Edited November 28, 2017 by geowrian

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

 The older one may end up aging out.  You have 2 years to be 21 , your parents petition will take about a year and then they petition a minor child which is 2 years .   That would put the 16 yo at 21  and an adult

[Unlockable 7,314]

I was responding to this post when I saw that you have already been given appropriate advice.

 

The only thing I will add is that although you got the bad news about you situation. Where you can't petition for your family now and you can't do it in a way to bring everyone over at once.

 

The good news is that when the time comes, your family can be petitioned for the time being. It make take many years before every member of your family is here. But at least for the near future you may still have that ability to bring them.

 

Curious... how did you obtain citizenship?

[etihad101 0]

44 minutes ago, NuestraUnion said:

I was responding to this post when I saw that you have already been given appropriate advice.

 

The only thing I will add is that although you got the bad news about you situation. Where you can't petition for your family now and you can't do it in a way to bring everyone over at once.

 

The good news is that when the time comes, your family can be petitioned for the time being. It make take many years before every member of your family is here. But at least for the near future you may still have that ability to bring them.

 

Curious... how did you obtain citizenship?

I was born in USA when my parents were there on a visit. 

[databit 328]

You will also first need to make an income in the US that can support your family. 

[Mollie09 1,543]

55 minutes ago, databit said:

You will also first need to make an income in the US that can support your family. 

Or find appropriate co-sponsors.

[Lazybones18 261]

6 hours ago, etihad101 said:

I was born in USA when my parents were there on a visit. 

A lot of people doing this nowadays also .. i know of 3 couples who got a visit visa and had the baby in usa .. automatic usa citizenship

[Nitas_man 3,100]

While you're waiting to turn 21 make sure you're faithfully filing your US tax returns.

[Nitas_man 3,100]

7 hours ago, Mollie09 said:

Or find appropriate co-sponsors.

Or bank a couple hundred thousand (in a US bank)

[milimelo 4,481]

And if male have signed up at sss.gov when you turned 18. 

[CEE53147 559]

4 hours ago, Lazybones18 said:

A lot of people doing this nowadays also .. i know of 3 couples who got a visit visa and had the baby in usa .. automatic usa citizenship

 

This gives the parents no benefit until the child is 21, and that may change in the future.

[Boiler 45,541]

With ages so close months matter but lets assume round numbers, 19 moves sometimes in the next 2 years petitioned parents takes a year all assuming has job savings to support this.

 

Siblings now 19 ,17 and 15, so younger 2 are likely to be ok, older one may be.

 

Throw AP and months into the equation and you could have a different answer.

[gregcrs2 1,778]

Do you have your original US birth certificate?

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

9 hours ago, CEE53147 said:

 

This gives the parents no benefit until the child is 21

And as can be seen from this thread it’s also not as simple as the child just moving to the US and taking the family with either

domicile, job or sponsor, paying US taxes, selective service, wait times etc

still it’s always a nice option for a kid to have ... as long as the kid is happy to move on his/her own

Edited November 29, 2017 by SusieQQQ