B2 visa for parents denied, worth trying again?

[Amadia 711]

14 hours ago, O&R said:

Ok, so my mom went to the embassy yesterday to get her tourist visa to be able to come and visit me and she got a standard denial, 214b.

I am a GCH married to a USC.

She is 45 years old woman, a doctor, employed ful time, has been working as a doctor for 20 years now. Her and my dad own 2 houses, a land and 2 cars. My mom has my grandma to take care of at home (my grandma's health is not the best). She also was leaving my sister who is 16 and my dad in her home country. She wanted to come and visit for 4 weeks and that's what we put on dS160.

So at the interview, she was asked:

why is she going to states?

how long has her daughter been there (2 years)

Does she have any other kids?

Who is paying for the trip? (We stated on ds160 that I was paying for her)

 

 

After that she received a denial. She had all the documents ready to show and she was offering but she was not allowed to. 

Plus at the end when she asked for an advice what she can improve she was told: "nothing, maybe once your daughter is a citizen you can apply"

 

My question is is it worth it to try to apply second time now and maybe another officer would be kind enough to look at the proofs?

 

Can my husband, a US citizen, herson-in-law attend interview with her? He is a police officer as well.

 

I know this time we would say that she pays for herself, that's probably the only think she could change, maybe asking to come for 2 weeks instead of 4? 

 

I don't know.. I need your advice..

Hi OP,

My parents applied for tourist visa and I scheduled their interview on the same day with my embassy interview for my CR1 visa....this was back in May 2016. They had an officer who was not the friendliest and she denied them outright then gave them the paper and told them it would explain the denial reasons. The paper just said (in a nutshell) that the embassy strives to filter out persons who intend to stay in the USA and my parents were potentially seen as ones who would become intended immigrants and not leave the USA when it was time to do so.

(Side note: every applicant who went to that officer's window was DENIED!)

 

Fast forward to August 2017, my parents tried again and were both granted 10-yr tourist visas after explaining to the officer that I was giving birth in January and they wanted to be there for the birth of their grandchild. The officer did not look at any of their documents and spoke to them in a very kind manner.

 

I have said the above to show you that you CAN have your parents reapply without you becoming a US citizen first. It ALL depends on the officer sitting on the other side and the one who is dedicated to do denials as there is a mandated quota for approvals and denials at every embassy.

 

I just filed RoC on my CR1 visa so I'm still an LPR and my parents are currently here spending some vacation time with me and my family.

[always_the_sun 1]

16 minutes ago, Amadia said:

Hi OP,

My parents applied for tourist visa and I scheduled their interview on the same day with my embassy interview for my CR1 visa....this was back in May 2016. They had an officer who was not the friendliest and she denied them outright then gave them the paper and told them it would explain the denial reasons. The paper just said (in a nutshell) that the embassy strives to filter out persons who intend to stay in the USA and my parents were potentially seen as ones who would become intended immigrants and not leave the USA when it was time to do so.

(Side note: every applicant who went to that officer's window was DENIED!)

 

Fast forward to August 2017, my parents tried again and were both granted 10-yr tourist visas after explaining to the officer that I was giving birth in January and they wanted to be there for the birth of their grandchild. The officer did not look at any of their documents and spoke to them in a very kind manner.

 

I have said the above to show you that you CAN have your parents reapply without you becoming a US citizen first. It ALL depends on the officer sitting on the other side and the one who is dedicated to do denials as there is a mandated quota for approvals and denials at every embassy.

 

I just filed RoC on my CR1 visa so I'm still an LPR and my parents are currently here spending some vacation time with me and my family.

So glad that your parents were granted visas! It gives me hope that one day my parents will be able to come and visit me  

 

Will they have more chances when I become a US citizen?

 

Thanks!

[Jojo92122 1,924]

Just now, always_the_sun said:

So glad that your parents were granted visas! It gives me hope that one day my parents will be able to come and visit me  

 

Will they have more chances when I become a US citizen?

 

Thanks!

No.  Once again, the visitor visa application is about the foreign person applying ONLY.  That person's visitor visa application has nothing to do with family in the US.  You becoming a US citizen has NOTHING to do with your mom showing strong ties to overcome the legal presumption that all visa applicants intend to illegally immigrate. 

[O&R 5]

1 hour ago, Jojo92122 said:

They did look over her application, the DS-160.  The CO is not required to look at the documents that she brought with her.

 

Your mom's visa application is not about you.  There is no "we" in this.  This application is only about your mom, a foreigner seeking to enter the US.  

Oh please stop with this ####### "no we". I'm sure everyone helps there parents in the process and do whatever they can to make it easier for them. Her application has everything to do with me since she's coming to see me, not just to travel and see Grand Canyon or whatsoever. She would have to business here if I wouldn't be here. So yeah, I have something to do with it. And yeah, I help her with the documents cause she knows nothing about it and she speaks zero English. And yes she's not going to get on this forum and ask for help. I do it for her. She is my mom, not my fifth  knee cousin. I'm really close with her and yes I want her to be able to visit. So yes, I'm doing it for her. 

 

And yeah they looked over ds160. Apparently they thought since my mom is a doctor with an ok income, coming to see her daughter, who is a green card holder, she would definitely stay in US illegally and be a housekeeper. Pure dream job. And then a woman in front of my mom in line going to see her husband who's in US on a work visa, bringing her kid with her, said she is housewife and she was approved.

 

So yeah I think this screening process was "I like/I don't like you" and not a fair evaluation at all. I know they have all the rights in the world to do that but don't think it's even humane at all. 

[Jojo92122 1,924]

1 minute ago, O&R said:

Oh please stop with this ####### "no we". I'm sure everyone helps there parents in the process and do whatever they can to make it easier for them. Her application has everything to do with me since she's coming to see me, not just to travel and see Grand Canyon or whatsoever. She would have to business here if I wouldn't be here. So yeah, I have something to do with it. And yeah, I help her with the documents cause she knows nothing about it and she speaks zero English. And yes she's not going to get on this forum and ask for help. I do it for her. She is my mom, not my fifth  knee cousin. I'm really close with her and yes I want her to be able to visit. So yes, I'm doing it for her. 

 

And yeah they looked over ds160. Apparently they thought since my mom is a doctor with an ok income, coming to see her daughter, who is a green card holder, she would definitely stay in US illegally and be a housekeeper. Pure dream job. And then a woman in front of my mom in line going to see her husband who's in US on a work visa, bringing her kid with her, said she is housewife and she was approved.

 

So yeah I think this screening process was "I like/I don't like you" and not a fair evaluation at all. I know they have all the rights in the world to do that but don't think it's even humane at all. 

Ok.  Your mom's visitor visa has everything to do with you.  

 

Ignore our advice.  Argue.  Cuss. 

 

Instead of being angry at people trying to help you solve your problem, you may want to take a breath and read what the US Government says about assurance from US family for visitor visa applicants.  This was posted earlier, but you choose to ignore it.

 

Rock on.  Good luck.

[O&R 5]

1 hour ago, always_the_sun said:

Same here. My parents were denied 2 weeks ago in Kiev (214b). The consular did not even want to look at their documents. How else can you prove that you have strong ties with your country if the consular doesn't want to look at your documents? This system is so messed up. 

Exactly. Was CO a middle age lady with short hair?

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