Visitor visa for my mother-in-law

[chandhu]

Hi,

We would like invite my mother-in-law to US on visitor visa. She has an appointment on November 2nd 2005 at Mumbai Consulate. we requested hindi translator at the consulate.
She is a house wife and widow. she has 2 children (son & daughter). Daughter is in US. Son is un-married and doing business. And also my mother-in-law brothers(4) and sisters(5) are in India. she is not educated. she can only speak hindi and marati. she has house and bank balance on her name.

I am on H1B visa. I have been in US for almost 5 years. I am sending the following documents...

I-134 Form
Original Employer Letter
Original Letter From the Bank
Copies of Recent bank statements
Letter to US consulate
Invitation letter addressing to my mother-in-law
Copies recent pay stubs
copies of last 3 years income tax returns and W2s
copy of both (me & my wife) the passport including blank pages
copy of I-797
copy of marriage cetificate
copy of both (me & my wife) the birth certificates

Documents from my mother-in-law
I-156 form
Passport
DD's
Proof of property documents
personal afidavit
copies bank passbook
documents about the family (marriage certificate, birth certificate of children)

Is these documents are enough? Am i missing any?

And also any Q & A will be appreicated.

I would greatly appreciate your input.

Thanks
chandhu

[immihelp]

read https://www.immihelp.com/usa-visas/visitor

[taco]

Chandhu

You have all the documents all right. But the applicant's situation is
more important than the documents. Most importantly they look for applicant's ties to India through questions. They won't even look at all your paperwork if they don't think the applicant has enough ties.

Do not mean to dishearten you, but only wish to tell you the real picture;
In your MIL's case, sadly, there are two important ties to India missing;
husband and a regular income so very likely she could be denied on the suspicion of being a potential immigrant.

The routine qs that they ask are;
Who is in US? What visa? How long?
Why do you wish to go?
For how long?
How many children? How many in India?
What about your husband?
What do you do? How do you make a living?

The best she could do is to give a good answer to the last q;
I am a housewife but I have a good income (give a good figure
if she can from whatever sources she has and carry evidence in favour of that).

[chandhu]

Thank you very mcuh for your input.

For the purpose of ties to India
can she say something like I am staying with Son and he is doing business. And he is un-married. I have to comeback to look for a girl and get him married.

any other ideas greatly appreciated....

[taco]

She can but since her son is grown up it won't make much difference.She should strengthen the income part of her app. if she can.