Inviting wife for graduation ceremony

[kingofkings2010]

This thread is to share experiences and suggestions in regard to VISITOR VISA(B-2) for wives who have been invited for graduation ceremony by husband's who are on F-1 VISA and are not working on OPT or Internship.

I want to invite my wife for my Graduation ceremony in May 2010. I have an F-1 visa and not working on OPT or Internship. I work part time at my school on hourly basis. We applied for a F-2 (dependent visa) but got rejected thrice during this (2009) year. So as I am graduating in May 2010, we thought that we can try for a visitor's VISA and show them "Graduation ceremony" is the only purpose/reason for the visit.

Finally, let us know how many months before can she attend the VISA interview(B-2) showing the above reason. We want to schedule the interview as early as possible.

Please help us with you suggestions and experiences.

[immihelp]

She can attend at any time but she must travel to the US before the expiration of the visa stamp. Therefore, if you apply too early and if they give a short duration visa stamp, it would expire before it is time for her to travel to the US.