US Immigration from Chile

Anyone have experience with parents visiting a green card holding son or daughter in the US, relatively frequently? Just cover the first few responses....I know entering the US will always depend on the CBP officer, every case is different, no garauntees, etc. But I just wanted to see if anyone had experiences that were similar to ours -- to know what to expect and plan.

Our situation:

- Wife had green card previously, we moved back to her home country (Chile) 4 years ago, and now are in process to move back to the US

- We all want her mom to be able to visit as much as is resonable (2 times a year? 1-2 months each?), we would also probably split those trips up with my wife going down to visit her mom in Chile

- Her mom is a widow and retired. Has two properties in her name: her house that she lives in, and a property on the beach that she rents for her monthly income

- Her mom visited us once when we lived in the US before with ESTA, for 6 weeks, and she had no problems

- Very likely my wife will sponsor her mom for a green card once she is a citizen

So we just want gauge how often and frequent she could make trips up to see us (and grandkids), without getting her ESTA status revoked. We definitely aren't trying to have her "live" in the US, she would still be in Chile at least 9 months year, and even when she would be eligible to immigrate (with sponsorship from my wife when she is a citizen) it would be through the IR5 visa, definitely not having her come in as a visitor and do AOS.

So again if anyone has a similar situation or experience I would appreciate to hear it! Most of the posts I see about frequency of visits are about boyfriend/girlfriends or spouses -- so just seeing if there are some examples with parents or family.

Hello all,

Here I am 6 or 7 years later after the k1 visa and my step son (16yo) is wanting to come to the US asap. He's had a pretty bad falling out with his mom and his mom is wanting to sign custody over to his dad (my husband).

So I have a few questions.

1. I understand that I'd have to fill out the i130. That is to start the process, correct?

2. The fastest way to get him here is the k4 visa paperwork, correct? Or is there something else that I should be looking into?

3. I thought I read somewhere online in my searches that there is an interview required for the k4 visa with his mother at the US embassy in their country (Chile) is that correct?

4. Is there anything else required of his mother? His mother is going to make this whole situation as difficult as she can, she wants her son to leave but anything dealing with my husband and to make life easy she will typically buck up against. We are writing up with our lawyer the document that she is to sign in order to give him custody so if there is anything else required of her to do then we want to make sure it is in that document.

Thank you all for your time!

Edit to add: My husband has not done the paperwork for his citizenship so he is still an LPR. So I believe I will be filling out the petition since I thought I saw it went through faster for citizens.

Please Help....

My wife an I are filling up the application online for her Citizenship.

She has not had prior marriages. I have had one prior marriage.

Since she has not prior marriages, this is what is showing on her application. Good so far...

but when we review the application, on the question of "Have you been married previously? ", it is showing "YES"

We have checked several times the question from the beginning to the end and there is not part where you can fix it....

I'm assuming it's a glitch on the system... Anyone has had this issue and fixed ???

Hi,

My wife is ready to apply for the US Citizenship based in the 3 year rule . ( I'm US citizen).

We have always submitted the application by mail. We have been researching and there is an option to submit the N-400 online.

Any experience with the online submission? Any pros/cons?

Thank you,

Hi everyone! I know this thread is from a while ago but it seems to have the most potential for answering my questions.

I am a dual citizen, US and Chile. Have been living in Chile for the last 5 years. I haven't made enough foreign income to reach the tax threshold previously but I think now that we're married, I do? I talked to a CPA in the USA and they told me to just file the 1040NR EZ. Is anyone else a dual US citizen and have they done this? Or have any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance!!