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I have found the CBP to be pretty cluess about immigrations laws. When I brought my fiance back to USA from Philippines, first they asked me if I pay taxes, which I thought was pretty silly question since I had just done a K1 Visa Interview a few weeks earlier. Then a lady told me once we get married to go to our local USCIS office and adjust status there, Once she said that I knew she was lost, I just said Thanks you for the information and we entered.

Sounds like the perfect time to visit now. I highly doubt they will ask you about current employment, people change jobs all the time. You already proved what you needed to prove to get approved for the tourist visa, Enjoy the trip.

The have the US Consular Agency in Cebu Philippines, but that is like in a Hotel and more for US Services only, like lost passport, etc. U.S. Consular Agency in Cebu - U.S. Embassy in the Philippines (usembassy.gov) They do have branch legally called " Embassy of the United States of America, Consular Section - Immigrant Visa Branch, Manila Philippines which is the official letter head, which is located inside the US Embassy in Manila. I have communicated with them in past on other matters. But according to the US Embassy in the Philippines, they provide all routine visa services. I am gonna assume you have never petitioned or done an interview at the US Embassy in Manila (USEM). I have never in 20 years heard any one call it the Consular Section - Immigration Visa Branch in at the USEM. Just wanted to clarify you, In Philippines and anyone doing a visa interview in Philippines they will say it is the US Embassy, Since per the US Embassy in Manila they provide all routine visa services.

Thanks Wife was pretty happy, It is kinda cool I haven't seen her parents in almost 10 years, it will be nice to show her around where we live, Let her experience the USA and see how it is here in USA vs Philippines. Grill her some Texas Ribeyes, Let her experience Tex-Mex food, take her to a Brazilain Steakhouse. I am planning on taking her to Cancun for a week and let her experience an All Inclusive resort in Cancun, I have been going to Live Aqua or Ateliers lately, gonna take her to Las Vegas for a few days and let her experience that.

Her appointment was yesterday she was approved. Here are the questions she told my wife she was asked. Daughter name? Where was she going in the USA? How long does she plan on staying in USA? What is her middle name? How many kids does she have? What was her middle name when she was single? Are you retired? Whom is paying for your trip? I am not sure in what order, but those were the questions.

It was actually yesterday, She passed, just a few basic questions is what I was told

Her mother is almost guaranteed a visa approval. As I said my wife has about 8 to 10 pinay friends in her clique in our area she hangs with, I asked my wife how many parents of those 8 to 10 have been denied a tourist visa and she said none of them, that is pretty solid proof older parents are a slam dunk approval. Plus it like 24 to 28 flight/layover from USA to Philippines, no direct flight, then add another 13 hours advanced time change and that is 2 days of your life gone, You do make it up flying back to USA. But once I arrive it's take like 3 days to adjust and get over the jet lag. Get a SIM card, exchange money, etc. It's not like Cancun where I can hop plane and from wheels up I can be in Cancun in like 2 hours, they take US Dollars in Cancun and outstanding tourist infrastructure. The Flight to the Philippines is what keeps many from visiting there alot, just too far from USA.

I am only golden in Davao City, thanks to my best friend living there and his power, Outside of Davao City it a ####### shoot what would happened.

I would use the "Elderly" Provision per us Embassy in Manila" Accompanying persons Attorneys are not permitted to accompany clients into the waiting room or to their interview. The following persons may accompany a visa applicant to their interview: Applicants may bring ONE interpreter if they do not speak English or Filipino well enough for an interview. Applicants may bring ONE person to help if they are elderly, disabled, or a minor child. U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines - MNL (state.gov)

Now it all makes sense they are based outside of the USA. I had a motorcyle accident, My wife had to fly from USA to Philippines to take care of me, In Philippines even in a private hospital (Better ones compared to Public) you have a watcher that stays in room with you and they feed you, bath you, change your sheet, go get your medicine (they have pharmacy in hospital and when you need something the doctor gives you a script and you send someone to pharmacy to buy it and then the doctor or nurse will then inject you with it.) By the time my wife had arrived I already had surgery, and she got there the next day after my surgery to repair my bones. Once my wife arrived we decided to file a claim with Safety wing and first call was to an American Place, and after filing claim I had a doctor take over the case and he sounded like he was in a some 3rd world country and had very poor English skills. He wanted all our medical bills, passport info, etc so my wife took pics and sent to them and first thing he said it needed to be scanned and sent in, who has a printer or a scanner in their hospital room. When my wife arrived in Manila from USA she had her sister fly to Manila and meet her there and then they both flew to the city I was hospitalized in to take care of me, Wife spent 9 weeks with me 24/7 in the hospital room, I paid for the sister a hotel room at night, since they only furnish one bed in the room for a watcher. If I ever get medical stuff like that again, I will do my due diligence and make sure they are US based.

Only way she can prove she will return to her country is by being old and her daughter being a US Citizen and not doing a petition to have her mother live in USA. Philippines has a history of approving tourist visa for older people, It just the way it is. I have seen way too many parents get approved for tourist visa from Philippines, my wife has about 8 other pinay girls in her group of friends. I have been to the US Embassy in Manila myself, Actually been part of the visa interview, I have sit back and watched and listenend to other K1 and other tourist visa interivew go down, I can tell you that the CO already has his or her decision made on most of the visa applications even before the visa interview starts. The questions are too short, and too easy to answer, at least on the pre approved cases they are. If you get up to the window at the US Embassy in Manila and the CO ask you a handful of questions and then he/she approves or denies that means you were part of the pre approved or pre denied. In our case it should be a slam dunk approval based upon history of US Embassy in the Philippines approving tourist visas for the old and rich.

I am not worried about health insurance for her mother, my wife has group of pinays she talks to and all of them have had their parents or visit on tourist visas, I will let her figure all that out. As I said her mother is in good shape if she wasn't I wouldn't let her come to the USA. I do have bank so money really isn't an issue for me.

I am not going to interview, I am using US terms and southern terms on this board.

Update: I canceled my trip to Cancun for Wednesday, Rainy and possible of tropical storm or hurricane forming and it looks like crappy weather for the next few days in Cancun, rebooked for end of October, fingers crossed weather clears up by then in the area. I am not flying to Philippines either, just gonna enjoy the sunny skies at home.

I haven't looked into travel insurance, I got it for me one time and it was a scam, I used Safety Wing and needed to be hospitalized in Philippine and they paid nothing, I had to have it to enter Philippines during Covid it was requirement for non citizens. I may look into it, but her mother is healthy, but you never know. She is flying with my wife friend mother, they are supposed to book the trip in December and come to USA in April or May.

She has been a housewife for 40 plus years, never worked since she got married and she is still married, her husband is now retired from a American owned company based in Philippines, He is Electrical Engineer. She does have 4 other daughters all live in Philippines. Of course she will be living at my house in Texas, It's huge and I have plenty of room upstairs, it just me and wife living here, It would be silly to have her stay in a hotel. I have 4 full baths and like 4500 sq ft house.

Especially for a mother in law, what would change? Nothing that is why I would have to go to get it approved, no way they would say no with me there. But I have seen many expats in the Philippines who girlfriends got refused for a tourist visa, would finally get apporved when the US Citizen got there 13A Visa in the Philippines, I am part of a few expat groups of guys living in Philippines, even the CO tells the pinay for the boyfriend to get his permanent visa in the PHilippines and they will be approved.

If you read my post I said " I would really like to see if she can get approved on her own ". My strings are not a phone call, it's would be a FB Messenger to my buddy where it 13 hours advanced, I would hope I can get hold of him in a timely manner, and then he would have to get hold of somebody else, too many string pulling in to short of a time. Would the ex pres still have power or even a contact anymore at the US Embassy? I would like to be able to gaurantee MIL passes but other factors right I can't control, her family has been very good to me and I would like to return the favor. MIL would wake up early around 5am and make my breakfast since I wake up around 4 am each morning, and then she would make the family breakfast around 7am and I would get to eat again. The father even added a bathroom to the house before I arrived, and he had someone build me my own American Style bathroom with a large shower room so I could be comfortable, with a shower head and not the Philippines style pale and bucket bath/shower.

What could she bring as evidence? I really can't think of anything for her to bring other than herself and the required appointment paperwork. If we put a couple millions pesos into her bank account and let it season I am thinking that is a waste of effort. CO don't really care about Bank accounts for tourist visas, I am sure they know that we or me will be paying for her tickets to USA and of course staying in my house. I am sure CO has done thousands of tourist visa interviews already. My understanding is most if not all the time for a mothers tourist visa, the CO wouldn't even bother to look at your paperwork, if you had some. I think the CO already has the Tourist visa either approved, denied or "Maybe" when you get your interview, the approved and denied are quick and fast interview, it's the ones that are in the "maybe" stack where the CO does some actual in depth questioning. From my wife talking to a few of her Filipina friends in the area, there really isn't anything to bring. The fact her mother is older and the fact that my wife has her US Citizenship and hasn't applied to bring her or any family members via petitions pretty much means her mother will return to Philippines and that will be a "Compelling Reason" to return to Philippines.

General Consensus was that I wouldn't even get in the building, which they were corrected by another poster and then by me. I would really like to see if she can get approved on her own without me pulling any strings or me having to show up. Long time ago I met the mayor of Davao City at a friends birthday party, and believe it or not that dude became President recently, Duterte is no longer President since they can only serve one term for 6 years, but I am sure he still has pull with the US Embassy. My best friend who I have known going on 17 years now is the Presidents buddy and they worked together for decades. So I could call my buddy and have him get hold of President Duterte and pull strings that way, if needed. I just don't want to be pulling favors unless I really need them like I got arrested or something like that.

I am 10 years younger, but still in great shape, I am like 6'2" and 230lbs and considered "Macho" in the Philippines is what I am called. I would say I look around 50 years old, but I exercise daily and I am in very good shape.

Incorrect: When I did my K1 I was the very last person to do an interview with the CO, I sit on the front row and purposely sit there so I could ease drop and watch other visa interviews go down, I had no clue I would be the last to be called. I think I watched my CO do 3 tourist visa interviews, I could hear them chatting and one had like a family like 3 people doing the actual interview. My K1 was like 10 years ago

She is 69 years old

I have made many many trips to and from Philippines last decade or so mostly on Delta, and usually one way it about a tad less than half of roundtrip. What you do if you ever have that scenario again, Is book roundtrip, and make sure you have a frequent flyer account with British Airways and then cancel the return ticket, then you get half of it as credit to use in the future. I do this quit often with Delta Airlines, and you have a year to use your "E-Credits", if you can't fly within a year, then you rebook again a ticket and burn up as much credit you can and extend the credit for another year.

Problem is nobody who has answered me has ever done a actual interview inside the US Embassy in Manila, You said you haven't either. I can only rely on my firsthand experience from dealing with the CO's at the actual Inteview. To assist in interview would be up to CO, my wife just talked to one of her pinay friend who mother did a tourist visa interview last year and she said it should be a slam dunk her mother getting a tourist visa, and I asked what evedince her mother brought and she said nothing just her passport and she was approved. That is whom my mother in law is supposed to fly to USA with, they are gonna fly together so they have someone to talk to on the flight and my wife said her mother is scared to fly alone that far.