Thanks for replying. They are applying for B2 (tourist visa)...By sponsorship I meant filling I-134 (affidavit of support) and showing my finances to support their stay. They are also showing all their docs to show their ties.
My mother is housewife and father is retired. I am a conditional GC holder.
Even an I-134 may not be desireable unless is it unavoidable. ONE of the main factors considered for a B visa is financial ability.
Did you know that the "non-immigrant visa classifictaions" are actually drawn from the INA definition of the word "immigrant"? An "immigrant" is EVERY ALIEN EXCEPT one of these "non-immigrant" EXCEPTIONS to the definition of "immigrant".
INA 101(a)
(15) The term "immigrant" means every alien except an alien who is within one of the following classes of nonimmigrant aliens
(B) an alien (other than one coming for the purpose of study or of performing skilled or unskilled labor or as a representative of foreign press, radio, film, or other foreign information media coming to engage in such vocation)
having a residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning and who is visiting the United States temporarily for business or temporarily for pleasure;
INA 214 Admission of Non-Immigrants.
(b) Every alien (other than a nonimmigrant described in subparagraph (L) or (V) of section 101(a)(15), and other than a nonimmigrant described in any provision of section 101(a)(15)(H)(i) except subclause (b1) of such section)
shall be presumed to be an immigrant until he establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer, at the time of application for a visa, and the immigration officers, at the time of application for admission, that he is entitled to a nonimmigrant status under section 101(a)(15) . An alien who is an officer or employee of any foreign government or of any international organization entitled to enjoy privileges, exemptions, and immunities under the International Organizations Immunities Act [22 U.S.C. 288, note], or an alien who is the attendant, servant, employee, or member of the immediate family of any such alien shall not be entitled to apply for or receive an immigrant visa, or to enter the United States as an immigrant unless he executes a written waiver in the same form and substance as is prescribed by section 247(b) .
Step 1 is getting the visa from the Consular Officer and step 2 is getting allowed into the country by a CBP Inspector. Just a hint, "Tourists" usually do not take their resumes and college transcripts on vacation. There was a thread not too long ago about a woman who was a naturalized UK citizen (originally from an former Soviet republic) who was turned away from a Visa Waiver admission because she was going on "vacation" and had her
curriculum vitae in her luggage.