Please please help.Very urgent!Family based greencard

[sham30096]

I am a us citizen.I apply immigrant visa for my mother last year.Also I have a sister 20 year old.I don't know why, all this time I was thinking only children under age of 18 can come with parents(what a stupid I am!).Yeasterday my mom went to embassy for interview and they ask her to bring my sister birth certificate and come back next week.Can anyone help me ...why they ask birth certificate for my sister,is it she will get visa too? if not then is it late for my mother to add my sister since she is under 21?please help me!

[PraetorianXI]

Sorry, but a sponsored parent of an US Citizen can not bring the rest of the siblings... even if they were 1 month old. They require the Birth Certificate for some other reason.

Your sister can not be a dependent on your mom's petition. Your sister can not get a visa in this case.

You have to sponsor your own sister, or your mom can do it, once she is a US Citizen.

[sham30096]

Please help

But if my mom come here and apply for my sister before she reached 21(this coming December)then you think they give her visa?

[sham30096]

Please help

If I apply for my sister now is it gonna fall under 21 catagory or just normal brother and sister catagory?

[PraetorianXI]

Your sister is not going to get a visa immediately. Either way (you sponsor her or your mom as a Permanent Resident) is going to take a VERY LONG TIME.

Check the visa bulletin, to determine what category she would fall under: http://immihelp.com/greencard/visabu...april2008.html