Hi all, we started off this week with the bad news that my mom was denied her tourist visa.
I'm in the middle of CR1 visa process, I still don't have my NVC case number so we haven't uploaded any documents and are at least 1 month away from DQ.
The wait time in Juarez is 1 year after Case Completed, so we still have around 1 year left before I get assigned an interview date.
Does she have a better chance at being approved if she applies again BEFORE or AFTER my CR1 visa interview, my estimate is that my interview would be around November 2020?
I know this kind of topic raises a lot of questions, so I'll share more background details:
- My mom had previously had US tourists visas issued around 1990, and renewed again in 2001. With NO overstays. We used to go to the US once or twice a year for shopping.
- Our visas were stolen in 2007 when our house was broken into, we filed this with the local police and still have copies of the document
- We had to file the new visa application as a 'new visa' instead of 'renewal' because that's how it works when the visa is stolen.
- My mom is 52 and still strong and healthy
- She has her own business, a family restaurant, which may seem modest but she still makes good money out of it and it's enough to live within/above her means
- She takes care of my grandma who is 80 and has dementia.
- I have two younger siblings who still live at home, they're both in college ages 21 & 26.
- I helped with the application and we told the truth in ALL fields. We put in 'yes' where it asks if the applicant has a relative living in the US. My husband lives there, it would be odd if my mom didn't count her son-in-law as relative, right?
- I would think that my going through the LEGAL way applying for a CR1 would set the record straight that we are NOT planning to become illegal immigrants, we DO NOT support illegal immigration and would NEVER attempt to do it ourselves.
The CO only asked about her work (familiy restaurant) and about my grandma, if grandma had been to the US and had a visa. Yes she had. Mom forgot to say we no longer had grandma's visa because an aunt who had a fallout with us took her documents, so grandma is not expected to ever go to the US again. I can only think maybe they thought my grandma would move to the US as well as my mom and that they would become public charge?
I can't blame mom for this, it was one question and mom had around 1.5 minutes to convince the officer, they did not ask for ANY documents.
I would think that caring for grandma would be proof enough that mom has ties back in her country. Also I don't see the application ever asking about children, only parents.
Mom had the title of her house, bank statements, business registration documents, a copy of my CR1 NOA2, my husband's birth certificate, a copy of my marriage certificate.
So I'll go back to my original question and ask Does she have a better chance at being approved if she applies again BEFORE or AFTER my CR1 visa interview, my estimate is that my interview would be around November 2020?
I've read VJ enough during the past months and I know in order to have higher chances to be approved for a visa the 'circumstances must've changed'.
But I don't see that happening here?
And I know some people will say 'But you can visit her if she can't visit you'.. Yes I know, but I also wish for my mom to visit me if I ever have children, and I wish for her to know the house and the city I will live in, I want to take her shopping and to take her to so many places I've already visited, who doesn't want their parents to visit their home? It's heartbreaking to think she might never see my house or how and where I live, or cook together in my house.