need help to bring my brother

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natacha

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hi ,
i m PR in USA ,and my husband too. my father is dead and my brother has none to live with and he is still in high school. he is 17 years old and i want to bring him in usa for study...

which visa can he apply for?? there is any possibility of GC??
 
1) F1 student visa, but in his situation he is probably not going to get one easily.
2) Not until you become a citizen and even then, there will be a 12+ year wait outside of the USA to get one.
 
PraetorianXI said:
1) F1 student visa, but in his situation he is probably not going to get one easily.
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Getting an F1 for high school would be a problem, considering that he has no foreign-based parents to go back to.

But once he is an adult it shouldn't be a big problem to get a student visa for college (if somebody provides the funds to pay for it, of course). However, he still would have to leave the US after college because the 4-6 years on the student visa is far short of the 11+ years of waiting for the green card, unless he gets another visa or green card via another route. And applying for the green card before he is already in the US studying is also a problem because of the immigrant intent issue.
 
we still have our mother and i can pay for my brother no problem for money. and even with 4-6 years visa is perfect, he can go back to the country of citizenship no problem ...
if f1 visa is not possible there is any other kind of visa that he can get??
 
natacha said:
we still have our mother and i can pay for my brother no problem for money. and even with 4-6 years visa is perfect, he can go back to the country of citizenship no problem ...
if f1 visa is not possible there is any other kind of visa that he can get??
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F-1 visa is the only long time visa he might be able to get. If done right he should have no problem getting it as long as he has been accepted in a college or school has a i-20 , means to pay for the school and has "significant" ties to home country. Now significant ties is very subjective and it depends a lot on the interviewing officer.
 
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