powerpuff

A lot of that has to do with the overall immigration trends for Kuwaiti citizens who are not known to use a B2 to come to the US and overstay. This is also demonstrated by visa refusal statistics for B visas posted by the US department of state. Kuwait had only 16% refusal rate, you can compare to my home country Kazakhstan which had a 44% refusal rate. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Non-Immigrant-Statistics/RefusalRates/FY22.pdf that explains why for your relatives strong ties weren’t AS central to their approval as it was to my parents or other relatives and friends I have. And this goes beyond just my country, but majority as you can see from statistics. This has to do with more that personal circumstances as you mentioned.

I don’t think makes a lot of sense. A month is practically nothing in immigration

K1 applicants do not receive a welcome letter from NVC. The process is very very different from CR1/IR1 spousal visa.

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Back in the student days, my parents applied for a tourist visa to come see me at the graduation. No invitation letters involved, I didn’t write anything nor provide any proof of studies.They applied on their own merits like was mentioned above. They did and still do have very strong ties to the country of origin.

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I’m sorry to hear that. My condolences

If your MIL changes her mind and wants to immigrate, then yes, I don’t see why not

Yes ACA Obamacare, that’s what I was on when I arrived as a K1 and I got it after we married and before I even applied for AOS. No issues, we received tax credits which lowered the premium significantly (they look at total household income to see how much tax credit you can receive).

We are aware. Our statements still stand

No You can’t, you’re not a traveler.

With a very strong immigrant intent that is demonstrated by: a) previous overstay b) previous immigrant petition the likelihood of receiving a B2 is practically zero.

What application? There’s a window after marriage or after arrival in the US in which your spouse can ask HR to add spouse to the insurance. If that mark has passed, then you will have to wait for the next enrollment period.

This should have been escalated in the HR department as that IS a Qualifying life event. Next best option is ACA plan (Obamacare) through a market place.

~~ Topic moved from Bringing Family members to the US forum to Tourist Visa forum as the question is about visiting not immigrating ~~ What visa is this?

Spouse’s insurance if they have it through work.

I asked OP this before in the other thread and never received an answer.

Also look into the thread below. You can request the ADIT stamp (I-551) to be mailed to your address. Tips on how to get a human when calling USCIS:

I understand and it truly sucks that you have to go through this…. I can go on and on about how USCIS has to improve drastically but getting so upset won’t do her good either. It’ll be okay Hang in there. Keep us posted

~~ Duplicate thread removed. Please don't start multiple threads pertaining to the same or related topics (I-90, wrong GC, stamp) ~~ please tell your wife to not get so upset. This has happened many time to many people and this is not the end of the world. Her status is and will remain the same - Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR). She’s just waiting for the evidence of that to come through. File I-90 with a fee waived and get the stamp. If it expires, get another one. I-551 stamps ARE evidence of LPR status while she waits for the plastic card.

You can get another stamp….

That’s what I-551 stamps are for

File I-90 with a fee waived. This was already advised before

I’m just going to leave this here:

~~ Duplicate thread removed. Please do not start multiple threads asking same or related questions as that’s considered spamming ~~ It’s not mandatory but the interviewing officer is free to ask for it if they want to. So if you don’t want to delay your case, I suggest bringing it with you to have it readily available should they ask for it.