Family based greencard -- how can i bring my 14 year old brother

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bakulmenpara

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I am Citizen and have filed GC for my parents and 16 year old brother. As far my understanding goes anyone minor can accompany parents while getting their greencard and can come to US legally. reason i am asking as I bought my daugher and wife while i got my GC 6 year back.

so question for me is if i have filed for my parents for greencard can my brother can also migrate with them as dependant or not?

what could be the legal way to bring all of my parents and brother to US.

BTW i have also seperately applied for my brother but it seems it takes more than 10 year and by the time he will not be minor category anymore..

any experience, advice would help me.

Thanks
bakul
 
Your brother cannot immigrate with them. Immediate relatives cannot come with dependents.
Thea fastest way is for them to come, and then petition for their son, who is your brother. That is much faster than if you petition for your brother. But in that case he cannot marry for a while.
 
Thanks Raevsky,

so what's the best way to bring him here at the earliest. is there any other legal way to bring my brother with my parents? is getting some good attorny on case can help?

any suggestion..
 
raevsky said:
Does he live in a visa waiver country? Then he could come for up to 90 days.
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If he was coming to visit his citizen sibling and permanent resident parents? He'd get turned away for sure. The VWP doesn't guarantee admittance - the usual rules of eligibility and non-immigrant intent apply.
 
So he can not come right away. How about getting visitor visa? will he able to get it to meet his parents and brother? someone replied in thread above as he can not but it applies to all country like india or just Visa waiver country like newzealand and Australia.

how that works? or how about getting visitor visa from india before my parents gets their Green card? how about that?
 
As long as I-130 for him was already filed, it is very unlikely he could get a visitor's visa.

If he is 14 years old (what is stated in the topic name):
He has to prove his parents have nonimmigrant intent (which is obviously false).

If he is 16 years old (what is stated in the text of the message):
He has to prove he has a nonimmigrant intent (that is theoretically possible, but difficult to prove)

If he is both 14 years old and 16 years old at the same time, he will not be able to enter US at all, under any circumstances, because he needs to have a valid age to get a visa.
 
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raevsky said:
Most likely not. The form I-94w does not have any questions about close relatives in the US or immigrant petitions filed on the beneficiary's behalf
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It doesn't matter what the form asks. The CBP officer at entry is certainly going to ask what an unaccompanied teenager is going to be doing when in the United States.
 
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