Tweet
Please help direct me
Hey everyone. I'm hoping I can get some help here. I'm currently visiting my husband in USA. I've been in USA since June and I'd like to leave sometime around December or possibly even January, so I need to apply for a visitor extension. I'm Canadian. I'm very very very confused about what to do. Different sites give me conflicting information, and I called the damn USCIS and of course they were of no help. They told me to call US Customs and Border Protection. I call them and their line has been busy for the last hour. I just need help.
-
-
I-539 is the form used for a nonimmigrant visa extension.
If you are here on Visa Waiver (ESTA) status, you cannot normally get an extension to your current allowable stay.
Customs and Border Protection (BP) is not in the business of providing this kind of information. It may be that you are not asking the question in such a way to be understood. Many USCIS (DHS) employees are foreign born and seem to have problems with English being their second language (just my opinion).
--Ray B
Originally posted by umbilicalresidue View Post -
Hi Ray, thank you for your response.Originally posted by rayb View Post
I understand that I must complete I-539, and I must include a $290 fee, along with I-94. Is this correct? And do I just mail it to USCIS?
I don't know what an ESTA status is, I don't know anything about that. I'm very confused.Comment
-
How did you enter the U.S.? With a B2 visitor visa, or with Visa Waiver status, or did you just walk over without any entry record?
--Ray B
Originally posted by umbilicalresidue View PostComment
-
-
Is there a record of your entry to the U.S.? Stamp in passport?
--Ray B
Originally posted by umbilicalresidue View PostComment
-
Honestly, I entered U.S. many times over the last few years to visit my husband, and my passport was only stamped once for one of those visits. I entered on June 13 and there is no stamp.Originally posted by rayb View PostComment
-
I also went to CBP's website and saw my most recent I-94 and travel history, and the information is simply incorrect. It's missing many of my arrival/departure dates.Comment
-
I guess everyone is just as confused as I am.Comment
-
Your entry was simply not entered into the system.
--Ray B
Originally posted by umbilicalresidue View PostComment
-
Visit visa of mother to see pregnant daughter
Hi Group Members
Plz could u kindly help me in my queries for my following scenario:
I am a Green card(conditional) holder in New York and want to invite my mom(living with my retired dad and student siblings) from Pakistan to stay with me during and after my pregnancy, and also to visit US. I need moral support, and want to share my first baby's joy with her, as Im v close to her. I dont need her to baby-sit or do house chores. I have maid coming for it already, and can arrange her to help me in baby-sitting as well. Also, I just started working v recently(professional job), and my husband works full time too. Following are my queries and concerns plz, if anyone can kindly advise me:
1- What should be the reason to apply for Visitor Visa? (Mom applying first time for US, has visited Europe in past 5 years, no one else in family visited US before other than me). Should the reason on form DS-160 be: "Tourism AND meeting Family"?
My concern: During Visa interview, if officer specifically asks: "Is your daughter pregnant?", and my mother saying yes; wouldn't this contradict the above purpose in DS-160 of Tourism and Family meet-up?
May be my mom can add herself that she is going to meet family n welcome baby plus tourism before and after delivery. She may say explicitly that the officer should not take her purpose as baby-sitting, as her daughter(me) already has maid's arrangement for it. Will such self-explanation be a good approach?
My sole concern is: If she writes Tourism and family meet-up as purpose, and then also tells upon officer's inquiry that I'm pregnant, will this not be considered hiding a fact?or incomplete information/ contradiction to purpose written on DS-160? (We dont want to write purpose as Pregnancy as this would suggest baby-sitting work, which is not the case).
2- My mom is a house-wife, never worked, has no bank account, plus my father's earnings are also not consistent sufficient for proving funds. Hence, shall my husband sponsor her or I should sponsor myself?(I just started working 1 month ago, so I never filed tax returns in US yet, neither have past months bank statements; but my husband has solid financial background).
3- Although mom cannot sponsor herself, still should she take along with herself house documents which my father owns? Utility Bills? (to show economic ties to home country?)
4- For social ties, what can she take along as proof? Family tree certificate from NADRA, siblings university enrollment letter, father's passport, siblings id's, family photographs. Are these enough to prove social/family ties?
Still my main concern remains as the purpose of her trip to US, in case of officer asking pregnancy question explicitly.
Kindly advise and help. Thanks!Comment
Comment