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Advice pls! Visitor visa for mom, have preg wife
Hello all,
I'm new, so apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place, or if this has been answered before. Advice is much appreciated! I've never been through the visitor visa process before, so here is my situation:
I am a permanent resident, been in US 1 year, and my wife is a US-born citizen.
I would like my mom (age 57) to come visit (from thailand) so she can see my life here in the West, spend time with me, my wife, and our daughter (7 months old, whom she has not yet seen), and visit some places in Cali and also my wife's family in Atlanta (again, never met). My mom owns some farm land with her husband, and has 8 other children and 12 grandchildren in Thailand. She also has community involvement. So she definitely has ties, though she doesn't have much money, and we do send her small amounts of money now and then for specific things. We would need to sponsor her trip. We've been advising her on getting all the documents related to farm, family, bank, etc, and hoping she could apply and come around January 07. But now we have found out we are expecting another baby in 7-8 months. So after reading many accounts and advice on here, I would like your advice on:
1) When should we have her apply to come? We'd love if she could be here for the birth (around August) since that's such a special occasion, but does that hurt her chances since they might think we only want her to come to be a babysitter (which is not true)? Any tactics for how to handle questions about a pregnant daughter-in-law? Should she say outright she wants to come be here for the birth? Or not offer that wife is pregnant at all? Another reason for wanting her to come around birth time is my wife will be on leave from work, and that means we will all have more family time to spend together.
2) Should we be her "sponsors" or try to put money in her bank so she can sponsor herself (which seems weird and obviously "planted")? I've read other posts where the advice was not to sponsor, but it seems like it would look **** to have her declare she is fit to sponsor herself. Is getting a visa at all hopeless because she's a semi-poor rural farmer?
Other items:
-she has never traveled abroad.
-Last time we saw her was Dec 05.
-We don't have plans to visit her (and the rest of the family) in thailand until our children are at least 3 and have had shots, etc. (We worry about taking babies to rural areas b/c of disease, etc).
- my wife is the primary breadwinner, so I only work part time while our daughter (and soon new baby) are young. I stay home or take our daughter to work with me when I can.
Any advice is welcome.
I'm new, so apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place, or if this has been answered before. Advice is much appreciated! I've never been through the visitor visa process before, so here is my situation:
I am a permanent resident, been in US 1 year, and my wife is a US-born citizen.
I would like my mom (age 57) to come visit (from thailand) so she can see my life here in the West, spend time with me, my wife, and our daughter (7 months old, whom she has not yet seen), and visit some places in Cali and also my wife's family in Atlanta (again, never met). My mom owns some farm land with her husband, and has 8 other children and 12 grandchildren in Thailand. She also has community involvement. So she definitely has ties, though she doesn't have much money, and we do send her small amounts of money now and then for specific things. We would need to sponsor her trip. We've been advising her on getting all the documents related to farm, family, bank, etc, and hoping she could apply and come around January 07. But now we have found out we are expecting another baby in 7-8 months. So after reading many accounts and advice on here, I would like your advice on:
1) When should we have her apply to come? We'd love if she could be here for the birth (around August) since that's such a special occasion, but does that hurt her chances since they might think we only want her to come to be a babysitter (which is not true)? Any tactics for how to handle questions about a pregnant daughter-in-law? Should she say outright she wants to come be here for the birth? Or not offer that wife is pregnant at all? Another reason for wanting her to come around birth time is my wife will be on leave from work, and that means we will all have more family time to spend together.
2) Should we be her "sponsors" or try to put money in her bank so she can sponsor herself (which seems weird and obviously "planted")? I've read other posts where the advice was not to sponsor, but it seems like it would look **** to have her declare she is fit to sponsor herself. Is getting a visa at all hopeless because she's a semi-poor rural farmer?
Other items:
-she has never traveled abroad.
-Last time we saw her was Dec 05.
-We don't have plans to visit her (and the rest of the family) in thailand until our children are at least 3 and have had shots, etc. (We worry about taking babies to rural areas b/c of disease, etc).
- my wife is the primary breadwinner, so I only work part time while our daughter (and soon new baby) are young. I stay home or take our daughter to work with me when I can.
Any advice is welcome.
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