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Thank you top flight. This is helpful and encouraging about the permanent residence. Maybe Costa Rica would be a good wedding destination, too

Thank you everyone for the suggestions. Flying to a closer country looks like the best option. I don't have hope she will get a visa for Canada and Cuba isn't on her visa exempt list for filipinos. It looks like our best option is flying to Costa Rica (visa exempt for her) and meet the family there. Haiti is on the exempt list but way too dangerous right now. Its great to know that it is easy to get a permanent resident visa to Mexico

Thank you for your response. She has applied for the visa and has been turned down. In Thailand, it is a 7 month wait to get a tourist visa interview, but it takes another 1-2 months of trying to get that interview. Can we get a K1 visa if I sponsor her and we use my parents' residence? There is a organization (Teach USA) that does get foreign teachers into the country to teach because of lack of teachers, but that isn't our plan.

I am in a bit of a quagmire on how to get my filipina gf a tourist visa to USA to visit my parents. They are retirees and not fit to travel over 24 hours flight to meet her. I would like for them to meet her before we get engaged. It would feel weird otherwise. We are both qualified teachers in Thailand. We don't want to live in the US, just visit and meet my parents. We are hoping to marry in the USA (on holiday), but it is not necessary. It takes us 7 months on avg to get an embassy interview just to be turned down. I actually have plenty of other coworkers that are in the same predicaments with their husbands, wives, and fiances. The visa officer says my gf doesn't prove she will leave the USA. We don't have assets in Thailand since neither of us are citizens there. We just have money in bank accounts. Does anyone have a recommendation how we can get the tourist visa? Plan B is getting a fiance visa. Would it be ok if I file this from Thailand, then we travel to and marry in USA and return to Thailand? Option C, which is inconvenient, is she gets a teaching visa to usa. Filipinas can get those since USA has teacher shortages, but then we need to live and work in the USA, which we don't want to do. I would appreciate constructive help. The whole goal is for her to visit the USA and meet my parents. It would be a blessing if they live past 5 years, so speed is a bit important.