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Hello all,
Here I am again, this time trying to help my mother to become a LPR. She just returned home after a short visit to US.
So you can understand me better, I’m gonna explain a few things.
I have 3 sisters, K the oldest, who was born a US citizen, then D, who is the one who just became a LPR (married to a US guy, remember my other thread?? check my signature), and then F, the youngest one who still lives overseas with mom and dad, she is an unmarried adult, not a LPR by the way, so neither one of my parents.
So it’s our mother’s turn. We know the fastest way is to get my sister K to sponsor and file a petition for her, since K is a US citizen and mom is her immediate relative.
My questions here go further than just questions about how to file I-130. Mom will go through consular processing by the way. I know you guys are not immigration lawyers, but I just want to know your opinions.
Let’s begin:
One quick question first, once mom becomes a LPR, how long does it takes from there to become a US citizen?? Parents don’t go through conditional LPR right?? They don’t have anything to prove I guess hehehe.
Alright now, D is making plans for the wedding ceremony and of course we want our parents to be present. This will happen in May 09 (so far), and I am expecting my mom to get her GC in about the same time my sister D did, this is around 5 to 7 months, less would be better of course. This is about the same time from now to the wedding party. If we start my mom’s process today, and in the event that my mom doesn’t get her GC by May 09, and she needs to travel to US to attend the party, consider that she already has a visitor visa, would immigration officers say something at the port of entry?? I’m afraid they might think my mom wants to come over to stay and adjust status here, which at the same time has no sense (why would she do it when it’s almost at the end of the whole consular processing), but, oh well, you know how things are sometimes.
Second, you notice I keep dad out of the scene. Wonder why? Well, he’s not retired yet, and he doesn’t want to become a LPR, for now. But he still wants to visit us in the future, of course. It’s not time yet to renew his visitor visa, but when the time comes, will consul deny him a visitor visa just because they know mom already has a GC (let’s say she has it by then) and they would assume he wants to come and stay to adjust status?? What would it be a better idea, just to go ahead and file I-130’s for both of them now to avoid this inconvenience?
Third, my sister F, unmarried adult, we won’t do it through my sister K because we all know it may take this whole life and the next one. So we’ll use mom. mom becomes a LPR and immediately files a petition (I-130) for her unmarried adult daughter. F will be “Family Second Preference B” category according to this site https://www.immihelp.com/family-base...rd-categories/. Does anybody know (an idea is fine) how long this preference is taking now??
Would it be a better idea to wait until mom becomes a US citizen and then file a petition for F?? that will put her as a “Family First Preference”.
As you can tell, I’m just trying to figure what’s the less time consuming scenario for my sister F. By the way, let’s say it will take X years (x=any number), during that timeframe my sister’s visitor visa will expire, again, as my father, will consul deny it if she tries to renew it?? I got the feeling you guys are gonna say “maybe, maybe not, but most likely”
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[edited, found the answer to some questions]
inolepehc
Here I am again, this time trying to help my mother to become a LPR. She just returned home after a short visit to US.
So you can understand me better, I’m gonna explain a few things.
I have 3 sisters, K the oldest, who was born a US citizen, then D, who is the one who just became a LPR (married to a US guy, remember my other thread?? check my signature), and then F, the youngest one who still lives overseas with mom and dad, she is an unmarried adult, not a LPR by the way, so neither one of my parents.
So it’s our mother’s turn. We know the fastest way is to get my sister K to sponsor and file a petition for her, since K is a US citizen and mom is her immediate relative.
My questions here go further than just questions about how to file I-130. Mom will go through consular processing by the way. I know you guys are not immigration lawyers, but I just want to know your opinions.
Let’s begin:
One quick question first, once mom becomes a LPR, how long does it takes from there to become a US citizen?? Parents don’t go through conditional LPR right?? They don’t have anything to prove I guess hehehe.
Alright now, D is making plans for the wedding ceremony and of course we want our parents to be present. This will happen in May 09 (so far), and I am expecting my mom to get her GC in about the same time my sister D did, this is around 5 to 7 months, less would be better of course. This is about the same time from now to the wedding party. If we start my mom’s process today, and in the event that my mom doesn’t get her GC by May 09, and she needs to travel to US to attend the party, consider that she already has a visitor visa, would immigration officers say something at the port of entry?? I’m afraid they might think my mom wants to come over to stay and adjust status here, which at the same time has no sense (why would she do it when it’s almost at the end of the whole consular processing), but, oh well, you know how things are sometimes.
Second, you notice I keep dad out of the scene. Wonder why? Well, he’s not retired yet, and he doesn’t want to become a LPR, for now. But he still wants to visit us in the future, of course. It’s not time yet to renew his visitor visa, but when the time comes, will consul deny him a visitor visa just because they know mom already has a GC (let’s say she has it by then) and they would assume he wants to come and stay to adjust status?? What would it be a better idea, just to go ahead and file I-130’s for both of them now to avoid this inconvenience?
Third, my sister F, unmarried adult, we won’t do it through my sister K because we all know it may take this whole life and the next one. So we’ll use mom. mom becomes a LPR and immediately files a petition (I-130) for her unmarried adult daughter. F will be “Family Second Preference B” category according to this site https://www.immihelp.com/family-base...rd-categories/. Does anybody know (an idea is fine) how long this preference is taking now??
Would it be a better idea to wait until mom becomes a US citizen and then file a petition for F?? that will put her as a “Family First Preference”.
As you can tell, I’m just trying to figure what’s the less time consuming scenario for my sister F. By the way, let’s say it will take X years (x=any number), during that timeframe my sister’s visitor visa will expire, again, as my father, will consul deny it if she tries to renew it?? I got the feeling you guys are gonna say “maybe, maybe not, but most likely”
. [edited, found the answer to some questions]
inolepehc
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