Applying FOR Parents and Siblings Visa

[Riza2021 0]

Hello Everyone,

I am planning to apply for my parents and siblings for a US visa. I am not sure if my parents want to live here but my siblings are open to relocate here when granted for visa to come here but of course I have to do the petition first before anything else. Can I submit separate applications for my parents and siblings? What form would that be for parents and for siblings ? How does it takes for the application process for siblings and how long for the application process for the parents ? If I submit an application do I have to include my bank statements or any financial proof of income or that documents be needed once the application is approved ? What documents needed for the initial application submission? Thank you so much and I hope my questions are clear and easy to understand and follow through. I appreciate any feedback as this is very important information needed so I can start the new process and what to do and the correct forms for each. Have a wonderful day !

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

Not “can you”, you HAVE to submit separate petitions for each parent and each sibling. Parents approx a year to a visa, maybe more now. Siblings at least 15 years, longer for some countries. If your parents do want to come and IF siblings are unmarried, it would be faster for your parents to sponsor your siblings once your parents arrive. 
 

If you look at the top of the page you will see a link to guides, read those first, most of your questions are answered in those.

Edited June 29, 2021 by SusieQQQ

[Riza2021 0]

Hello Susie,

Oh wow ! That's a lot of papers :(. I thought i could just submit one form and I could filled it up to a separated boxes in one form ; like list of siblings that I am petitioning with with their names in separate boxes and not a different application to each of the sibling and the same with my parents. Wow ! That way too long for my siblings to be approved and able to migrate .

 

I am thinking to petition my parents first. If my siblings are married and if ever my parents will do the petition for each of them, how long for the application process to be approved ? Parents petition to married kids ? Thank you so much and sorry if I probably repeated what just you said  

[Boiler 45,966]

Well your Parents will need to naturalise first to petition married children.

 

Difficult to make a sensible call, probably similar to you petitioning them.

Edited June 29, 2021 by Boiler

[Riza2021 0]

Hi Boiler,

This is too stressful. My plan is would be like this; I will submit an applications for both of my parents as well as to my siblings. So, if ever I will petition them all at once and I am sure if I do, my parents will get the approval first. But, if I submit to petition my siblings now and let is sit there while focusing with parents petition. If I do that way, and my parents relocate here and become citizens, Can they change the initial petitioner (me) to them later on ? or that would be impossible to change petitioners in the middle of the application process ? I am just probably thinking that I am wasting years of waiting for my parents to come and be a US citizen first before they can start the application process for my siblings, so why not submit siblings application now and let it sit there and change the petitioners later from me as sister to my parents ? Can I even do that or even possible ? I am just probably feeling out of option to not wasting more years

 

One of my sister is a Registered Nurse in the Philippines and Registered Nurse now in Abu Dhabi but she has to take an NCLEX first before she can apply US employers

[Boiler 45,966]

Petitions are not transferable, however someone can have multiple petitions running at the same time and see which come up first.

 

Timelines for Philippines for siblings and married children are longer.

[arken 4,197]

Were your parents and sibling born in Philippines?

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

2 hours ago, Riza2021 said:

I am thinking to petition my parents first. If my siblings are married and if ever my parents will do the petition for each of them, how long for the application process to be approved ? Parents petition to married kids ? Thank you so much and sorry if I probably repeated what just you said  

Your parents will first have to become citizens to petition married kids and it is a longer wait time for married vs unmarried children, so all in all that is actually likely to take longer than if you file for your siblings now. 

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

1 hour ago, Riza2021 said:

One of my sister is a Registered Nurse in the Philippines and Registered Nurse now in Abu Dhabi but she has to take an NCLEX first before she can apply US employers

Tell her to look into EB3 green card petition, there are agencies that find a sponsoring employer for this and will also help her with nclex prep etc. 

[Mollie09 1,543]

If your siblings were born in the Philippines, the wait time is 20+ years, not 15.

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

2 hours ago, Mollie09 said:

If your siblings were born in the Philippines, the wait time is 20+ years, not 15.

Except for the one who might get EB3 of course. I don’t know how the current process is working, and I know employment visas are low priority in the current visa backlog priority tiering, but a few years back the person I knew doing this had the agency lining up job/sponsor while she prepped for her exams and as soon as she qualified with nclex got the official job and visa - I think it took her slightly more than a year from when she registered with the agency.

[Riza2021 0]

23 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

Except for the one who might get EB3 of course. I don’t know how the current process is working, and I know employment visas are low priority in the current visa backlog priority tiering, but a few years back the person I knew doing this had the agency lining up job/sponsor while she prepped for her exams and as soon as she qualified with nclex got the official job and visa - I think it took her slightly more than a year from when she registered with the agency.

I am thinking too many things and trying to figure it out the fastest way to bring them here. That's what I've heard too, about foreign nurses  

7 hours ago, Boiler said:

Petitions are not transferable, however someone can have multiple petitions running at the same time and see which come up first.

 

Timelines for Philippines for siblings and married children are longer.

Oh okay, thank you for the feedback. 

[Riza2021 0]

6 hours ago, arken said:

Were your parents and sibling born in Philippines?

Yes

2 hours ago, Mollie09 said:

If your siblings were born in the Philippines, the wait time is 20+ years, not 15.

I think it's 8-12 years.

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

2 minutes ago, Riza2021 said:

Yes

I think it's 8-12 years.

No, it’s nearly 20 years. Visas are currently available for sibling petitions filed before 22 June 2002 https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2021/visa-bulletin-for-july-2021.html

[SalishSea 18,102]

50 minutes ago, Riza2021 said:

Yes

I think it's 8-12 years.

That is not correct.  You came here not even knowing that they need separate petitions.  The immigration process is not fast, or cheap.