Elderly Mother Over Stayed

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

24 minutes ago, Orangesapples said:

I think the chances of her being given a tourist visa are close to zero 

I think so as well unfortunately. She has two sons in the USA. So that makes it look like she has more ties here than she does the Philippines

[SalishSea 18,117]

3 hours ago, Darkchop said:

She is 81 and did not use anything benefits here.  She has health insurance from my brother in the Philippines and would essentially just be a tourist as she doesn't want to live here.. just visit.  I thought maybe a tourist visa but I'm sure that would work.

 

Would it work?

No US health care provider is going to be willing to bill a Filipino health insurance company.  Just won't happen.

 

If you want to sponsor her as an immigrant, you will need to figure something out.  At her age, she will need  good insurance, and that will be scrutinized by the embassy.

[Cathi 5,783]

You can't have it both ways. Either she applies for a visitor visa and she visits once a year for a limited amount of time and goes home. Or, you apply for her to become a legal resident and she'll have to spend more time in the US than out. It cannot be used as a glorified visitor visa, she must LIVE here. With that she'll have to prove that she'll be able to pay for her own health insurance and no, a US insurance company will not bill her ins company in the Philippines. The chances that she'll get a visitor visa under her circumstances are slim. The chances that she'll get a green card are also slim unless she can prove that she can afford health insurance.

Just telling it like it is.

[Boiler 45,993]

It is not a billing issue, foreign Insurance companies provide cover in the US for example to travellers. I have no idea what arrangements the Brother has made for he and sounds like the OP is clueless, but I'm sure they are based on her being a resident of PI and paying PI prices.

[retheem 568]

21 hours ago, Darkchop said:

My father passed a couple of months ago (he lived with us for a couple of years back (with Permanent VISA) about 7 yrs ago before he got sick and went back home) and I want to bring my mom here to alternate between here and the Philippines where we are from.  Here is where I need help.  She worked in the US and over stayed by 1 yr and was banned for 10 yrs.  She left the US in 2005.  How and what do i need to file to bring her here?  Am i going to have problems with filing since she over stayed although that was over 15 years ago?

 

TIA!

Sponsor for her.

[Crazy Cat 42,183]

I, too,  think a tourist visa is very unlikely.  It seems, to me,  she fits the textbook case of high risk to stay and adjust.

[SalishSea 18,117]

10 hours ago, Boiler said:

It is not a billing issue, foreign Insurance companies provide cover in the US for example to travellers. I have no idea what arrangements the Brother has made for he and sounds like the OP is clueless, but I'm sure they are based on her being a resident of PI and paying PI prices.

Travel insurance is different.  Travel insurance won't cover US cancer treatments or routine physicals.  US providers will not bill foreign insurers for those services.  The patient would have to cover the costs up front and then hope to be reimbursed by their insurer.

[Boiler 45,993]

55 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

Travel insurance is different.  Travel insurance won't cover US cancer treatments or routine physicals.  US providers will not bill foreign insurers for those services.  The patient would have to cover the costs up front and then hope to be reimbursed by their insurer.

Well no to routine physicals, cancer treatment, well that depends, most treatment would either be pre existing or would wait until you returned home. 

 

Now I am a bit out of date, used to be you were given a card that had an emergency contact and the Insurer would use a service that managed claims worldwide or would have it in house.

 

Nowadays no doubt there is app. Obviously anything serious or not that serious in the US would be beyond most people's Credit Card limits.

[SalishSea 18,117]

1 minute ago, Boiler said:

Well no to routine physicals, cancer treatment, well that depends, most treatment would either be pre existing or would wait until you returned home. 

 

Now I am a bit out of date, used to be you were given a card that had an emergency contact and the Insurer would use a service that managed claims worldwide or would have it in house.

 

Nowadays no doubt there is app. Obviously anything serious or not that serious in the US would be beyond most people's Credit Card limits.

I had an emergency appendectomy in Antigua, which cost $17k paid upfront.  The provider would not bill my insurance, but the insurer (Premera) reimbursed me for most of it.

[Boiler 45,993]

5 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

I had an emergency appendectomy in Antigua, which cost $17k paid upfront.  The provider would not bill my insurance, but the insurer (Premera) reimbursed me for most of it.

So this was under you US Medical Insurance rather than Travel Insurance?

[SalishSea 18,117]

Just now, Boiler said:

So this was under you US Medical Insurance rather than Travel Insurance?

Yes.  This was many years ago, and I had failed to purchase travel insurance.  Lesson learned!

[Boiler 45,993]

ll you got most of the money back!