Tourist visa for mom in Jamaica 🇯🇲

[katalaya 44]

Hello! It's been a while since I've been on this site. I'm planning to apply for a visiting visa for my mom in Jamaica 🇯🇲 . Do you think she'll need a job letter as part of the application? I've been living in the USA for 8 years, and I’m a US citizens.  I'm hoping she won't have any issues getting approved for the visa. What are experiences?

[SalishSea 17,771]

3 hours ago, katalaya said:

Hello! It's been a while since I've been on this site. I'm planning to apply for a visiting visa for my mom in Jamaica 🇯🇲 . Do you think she'll need a job letter as part of the application? I've been living in the USA for 8 years, and I’m a US citizens.  I'm hoping she won't have any issues getting approved for the visa. What are experiences?

She applies herself-  there is no visitor visa sponsorship.

 

What are her ties to Jamaica?   That will entirely impact whether she’s approved or denied.

[katalaya 44]

Ok thank you 

[DELTAFOXTROT 44]

7 hours ago, SalishSea said:

She applies herself-  there is no visitor visa sponsorship.

 

What are her ties to Jamaica?   That will entirely impact whether she’s approved or denied.

Kids can easily apply for the tourist visa for parents

 

My wife did the whole thing for her mother from the USA, her mom lives in Philippines.

[katalaya 44]

1 hour ago, DELTAFOXTROT said:

Kids can easily apply for the tourist visa for parents

 

My wife did the whole thing for her mother from the USA, her mom lives in Philippines.

Did she signed the application for her mom? 

[DELTAFOXTROT 44]

3 hours ago, katalaya said:

Did she signed the application for her mom? 

Correct, it is done electronicly from her laptop.

[katalaya 44]

2 minutes ago, DELTAFOXTROT said:

Correct, it is done electronically from her laptop.

But on the website they said if someone help the person to fill it out. The individual who is going for visa should sign themselves. So you mother in law didn’t sign. 

[Daphne . 1,852]

16 hours ago, katalaya said:

Hello! It's been a while since I've been on this site. I'm planning to apply for a visiting visa for my mom in Jamaica 🇯🇲 . Do you think she'll need a job letter as part of the application? I've been living in the USA for 8 years, and I’m a US citizens.  I'm hoping she won't have any issues getting approved for the visa. What are experiences?

What is going to prevent her from having you file an adjustment of status for her once she is in the US? What does she have in Jamaica that will prevent her from staying in the US? The Embassy will want to know how strong her ties to Jamaica are to assess how much of a risk she is for not leaving the US. She needs to focus on those ties. 

[katalaya 44]

54 minutes ago, DELTAFOXTROT said:

Correct, it is done electronicly from her laptop.

 

3 minutes ago, Daphne . said:

What is going to prevent her from having you file an adjustment of status for her once she is in the US? What does she have in Jamaica that will prevent her from staying in the US? The Embassy will want to know how strong her ties to Jamaica are to assess how much of a risk she is for not leaving the US. She needs to focus on those ties. 

Not everyone wants to migrate to the USA. She just wants to visit here. Well, people go to the embassy with ties and still didn’t get through. I think it’s just luck. 

[Daphne . 1,852]

4 minutes ago, katalaya said:

 

Not everyone wants to migrate to the USA. She just wants to visit here. Well, people go to the embassy with ties and still didn’t get through. I think it’s just luck. 

I know not everybody wants to move to the US, but that’s what the CO will assume so she needs to focus on her ties to Jamaica. 
 

It’s not so much about luck, it’s about assessing how high the risk is and sometimes a CO makes an incorrect assessment. 

Edited September 19 by Daphne .

[katalaya 44]

Just now, Daphne . said:

I know not everybody wants to move to the US, but that’s what the CO will assume so she needs to focus on her ties to Jamaica. 

Okay. Well, I have heard too many stories from people.🤣🤣🤣 It only scares people. When you arrive at the embassy it is all a different story. 5 people from my family went there with ties and never got through. I knew two person who went there without ties and got their visa. So we 

[DELTAFOXTROT 44]

57 minutes ago, Daphne . said:

What is going to prevent her from having you file an adjustment of status for her once she is in the US? What does she have in Jamaica that will prevent her from staying in the US? The Embassy will want to know how strong her ties to Jamaica are to assess how much of a risk she is for not leaving the US. She needs to focus on those ties. 

The mother is applying for a Tourist Visa

 

If the mother wanted to live in the USA the daughter would just put in a petition for the mother, but she just wants to visit the daughter in the USA, thus a Tourist Visa.

 

Being old is an automatic tie to her home country.

[katalaya 44]

Just now, DELTAFOXTROT said:

The mother is applying for a Tourist Visa

 

If the mother wanted to live in the USA the daughter would just put in a petition for the mother, but she just wants to visit the daughter in the USA, thus a Tourist Visa.

 

Being old is an automatic tie to her home country.

Thank you for that! Appreciate it. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏

[katalaya 44]

50 minutes ago, Daphne . said:

I know not everybody wants to move to the US, but that’s what the CO will assume so she needs to focus on her ties to Jamaica. 
 

It’s not so much about luck, it’s about assessing how high the risk is and sometimes a CO makes an incorrect assessment. 

But I can still file for her and she would leave the country anyway. So not much of a risk there. 

[Daphne . 1,852]

2 minutes ago, katalaya said:

But I can still file for her and she would leave the country anyway. So not much of a risk there. 

I am not fighting with you, and also not accusing her of anything. Just talking about how the CO will look at it.