Help Please b1/b2 tourist visa mistake

[payner 0]

Anyone that might know the answer to this scenario?  Im a US citizen, my wife(from Colombia) is a citizen as of about 6 years ago.  We applied with a lawyer to help us invite her father and sister her to visit for a month on a b1/b2 tourist visa(which the lawyer initiated). The problem is when we filled out the online part at our end to schedule the interview date/time, we input b2 tourist visa(for medical treatment) and not the b1/b2 tourist visa. We didn't catch the error until this week and my father in law and sister in law go to Bogota embassy this Monday for the interview.  Thoughts/Opinions?  THANK YOU

Edited September 10, 2022 by payner

[Mike E 11,740]

Try to change the class of visa at the interview 

 

I don’t expect the father’s visa to be approved regardless. The sister as a good chance. 

Edited September 10, 2022 by Mike E

[SalishSea 17,928]

On 9/10/2022 at 9:21 AM, payner said:

Anyone that might know the answer to this scenario?  Im a US citizen, my wife(from Colombia) is a citizen as of about 6 years ago.  We applied with a lawyer to help us invite her father and sister her to visit for a month on a b1/b2 tourist visa(which the lawyer initiated). The problem is when we filled out the online part at our end to schedule the interview date/time, we input b2 tourist visa(for medical treatment) and not the b1/b2 tourist visa. We didn't catch the error until this week and my father in law and sister in law go to Bogota embassy this Monday for the interview.  Thoughts/Opinions?  THANK YOU

You used a lawyer to help 'invite' them to apply for tourist visas?  That makes no sense.  There is no invitation or sponsorship for B visas.  Applicants are judged on their own merits and ties to home.

 

If you want them to move here, you need to petition them for immigrant visas.

[Palawan 131]

On 9/10/2022 at 11:21 AM, payner said:

Anyone that might know the answer to this scenario?  Im a US citizen, my wife(from Colombia) is a citizen as of about 6 years ago.  We applied with a lawyer to help us invite her father and sister her to visit for a month on a b1/b2 tourist visa(which the lawyer initiated). The problem is when we filled out the online part at our end to schedule the interview date/time, we input b2 tourist visa(for medical treatment) and not the b1/b2 tourist visa. We didn't catch the error until this week and my father in law and sister in law go to Bogota embassy this Monday for the interview.  Thoughts/Opinions?  THANK YOU

If you do another Tourist Visa in the future just follow the directions, never heard of someone using a lawyer for a tourist visa, that kinda silly and most lawyers would probably tell you this is a self file only:

 

Visas - U.S. Embassy in Colombia - Use our new U.S. Visa Wizard! (usembassy.gov)