What Visa get's my wife (GC)'s sister and her niece to US?

[Adventine 3,201]

3 hours ago, African Zealot said:

Why are so many postings ridiculing the OP? Not everyone knows the immigration rules like some do and in many cultures including the USA, younger minor children help with childcare so a 16 year old helping with childcare is not unheard of or strange at all.

 

Simply point out it against immigration rules and save the over exaggerated outrage for something more deserving.

 

To the OP: You’re out of luck. There’s no visa covering that classification unfortunately. Congrats on the little angels 👼.

 

 

 

Except those minor children usually also have to go to school when they're not babysitting. Original post states that they want the sister-in-law and niece to help with the kids "ideally for a few years at least."  So what's the plan for the 16 year old? Full time taking care of babies or going to school in the US and taking care of the babies? Neither option is possible with a tourist visa.

[African Zealot 1,455]

1 hour ago, Rocio0010 said:

Paying a high schooler for the ocasional date night here and there is very different than bringing a 16 year old from overseas to be a live- in nanny. It’s pretty obvious

Many high schoolers and even middle schoolers routinely help look after smaller children in the household in the America I know. He didn’t say he was bringing her in as a slave to be chained in the house watching his children 24x7 and not getting an education.

 

He wrote Her sister and her sisters daughter tells me reasonably  the16 years old is likely going to just be a fill-in big sister keeping an eye on the baby maybe a couple hours a weeks like it happens in many households right here in America. Her mother is also going to be here according to the proposal.

 

Pointless over-exaggerated indignation of no benefit. Much ado about nothing!

Edited October 26, 2022 by African Zealot

[Rocio0010 5,580]

12 minutes ago, African Zealot said:

not getting an education

He never said education was a plan. It’s not like the kid is going to come to the US primarily to study and  to ocassionally baby sit

[Joyoussinger 1,425]

54 minutes ago, Rocio0010 said:

He never said education was a plan. It’s not like the kid is going to come to the US primarily to study and  to ocassionally baby sit

To be fair, I re-read the OP, and it seems possible that his intention is for his wife's sister to be the primary person taking care of the kids and the niece would be coming, too, and maybe helping out, sometimes.  

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

Regardless, no one’s opinion really matters because there is no visa to bring either the sister or her child to come live in the US for a few years to look after the babies. OP needs plan B.

[milimelo 4,515]

Or OP can go the route of sending wife with children to PI so wife's sister can help out. Or even go altogether. Perhaps he can do remote work from there? 

[Rocio0010 5,580]

9 hours ago, Joyoussinger said:

To be fair, I re-read the OP, and it seems possible that his intention is for his wife's sister to be the primary person taking care of the kids and the niece would be coming, too, and maybe helping out, sometimes.  

Probably, but there’s not a visa for that. He’s asking his SIL to work for them, basically.

[Carpe Vinum 2,327]

21 hours ago, Boiler said:

OP wants cheap child care

 

ASAP

1 month and 13 months. I've been there but I was a young man. I feel his pain 😉

[Joyoussinger 1,425]

1 hour ago, Rocio0010 said:

Probably, but there’s not a visa for that. He’s asking his SIL to work for them, basically.

I understand that, but I'm sure he's not thinking of it that way or realize that that's the way immigration would see it. I've helped out with my granddaughters and great -granddaughter and never thought of it as working. They're family. I get where he's coming from. He only wondered if there is a visa for it, and now he knows there isn't.