Citizen inviting parents on visitor visa

[riakushi]

Hi,

I am a US citizen and wish to bring my mom from India on a visitor visa, can anyone tell me what are the documents required and how to go about the process of applying for a visitor visa in India.

Are there precautions to be taken so the visa is granted without delays.

Thank you,

Ria

[BigJoe5]

Hi,

I am a US citizen and wish to bring my mom from India on a visitor visa, can anyone tell me what are the documents required and how to go about the process of applying for a visitor visa in India.

Are there precautions to be taken so the visa is granted without delays.

Thank you,

Ria

Your parents apply for their visas in their own rights and must meet the requirements. This is very basic stuff found at http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1265.html

Contrary to popular Indian immigration mythology, you need to stay out of their affairs. YOU are a hindrance and deficit. IF you get involved in something that is absolutely none of your business you will be an albatross around their necks.

They are Indian and have a USC kid. This throws up an added concern that they would immediately try to file for adjustment like so many of their compatriots have done. If you start showing how you can afford to take care of them, you will sign a death warrant on any possibility of them succeeding in asserting non-immigrant intent.

Interfere to their detriment.

[scs83]

Disagree on this issue. The consulate is fully aware that the child can sponsor his mother at any time for an immigrant visa. Where is the potential immigrant issue ? However they can reject the non immigrant visa if there is no sponsor in the US. As a US Citizen I personally got visas for my mother (and my late father in the past), by giving her an affidavit of support. The only thing your mother has to show some properties back in India.

[Triple Citizen]

I have to respectfully disagree with you. B-2 visas do not have sponsors. Period. If you sent an I-134, all it did was give you the warm and fuzzies that you somehow were the reason she got her visa. That is not the case. A B-2 applicant qualifies, or does not qualify, on their own merit. Your mother qualified on her own. She overcame 214(b). As simple as that.

Think about it for a second, if a B-2 sponsor is needed, then by your logic, someone who has no friends or relatives in the US, can never qualify to visit the US. Every year hundreds of thousands of peope visit the US. For some, the only relative that have in the US is Mickey Mouse in Orlando, FL!!!

I got my first US visit visa when I was a 21 year old unemployed student. I only held Pakistani citizenship back then. I had 40 plus relatives in the US at that time. I applied for my visit visa, without an I-134. My reason to visit the US was "Disneyland and visit relatives in NYC and Chicago". I got my visa. Granted this was back in 1991, but 214(b) existed then.

However they can reject the non immigrant visa if there is no sponsor in the US.