My wife is from Colombia, and I'm from the US. I'm her sponsor. My brother co-sponsored her because I lost my job just before our interview. We suffered a setback of a few months because the USCIS dropped the ball and initially denied her because they failed to consider our cosponsor when they cited my lack of employment.
Anyway, my wife received her green card recently, but not until after her mother got very sick. She is now visiting her family, finally, but her mother is even MORE sick - as in "in the hospital" sick. It appears to be incurable cancer. Obviously this is killing my wife inside - and me too when I realize how much she is suffering on account of this. She loves her mother very much.
This creates another problem, though. My wife's mother has been like a mother to my wife's daughter. And if the unthinkable happens my wife's daughter will be watched by my wife's sister, brother and father, but, unlike her mother, they all work and will not be home for hours after she gets home from school. We may need to pay a babysitter for a few hours - that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
My wife's daughter is 12 years old. We have had every intention of bringing her over here, as soon as possible, and as soon as my wife's own immigration situation was resolved, and we could get our lives and home in order.
We would like to put our plans to bring her over into high gear now.
Our finances are not the greatest - I only recently started a job after being unemployed for a while and we have some things to catch up on. My wife will also need to finally get a decent job to help us along.
Can any of you tell me in detail what needs to be done to arrange to bring her daughter here? Which forms? How much will it cost? Should I do the forms myself or find a way to pay for a professional to help us so that we don't make any mistakes in the process and have any more unnecessary setbacks? (I'm hoping my wife and I can do our own forms without any problems because we really can't afford any assistance)
Any and all information, help and advice would be tremendously appreciated.
Anyway, my wife received her green card recently, but not until after her mother got very sick. She is now visiting her family, finally, but her mother is even MORE sick - as in "in the hospital" sick. It appears to be incurable cancer. Obviously this is killing my wife inside - and me too when I realize how much she is suffering on account of this. She loves her mother very much.
This creates another problem, though. My wife's mother has been like a mother to my wife's daughter. And if the unthinkable happens my wife's daughter will be watched by my wife's sister, brother and father, but, unlike her mother, they all work and will not be home for hours after she gets home from school. We may need to pay a babysitter for a few hours - that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
My wife's daughter is 12 years old. We have had every intention of bringing her over here, as soon as possible, and as soon as my wife's own immigration situation was resolved, and we could get our lives and home in order.
We would like to put our plans to bring her over into high gear now.
Our finances are not the greatest - I only recently started a job after being unemployed for a while and we have some things to catch up on. My wife will also need to finally get a decent job to help us along.
Can any of you tell me in detail what needs to be done to arrange to bring her daughter here? Which forms? How much will it cost? Should I do the forms myself or find a way to pay for a professional to help us so that we don't make any mistakes in the process and have any more unnecessary setbacks? (I'm hoping my wife and I can do our own forms without any problems because we really can't afford any assistance)
Any and all information, help and advice would be tremendously appreciated.
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Good luck with everything! Be patient, it takes several months to get an immigrant visa, upto to about a year.