Very Important Question,Please Help

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manueluccia

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I just found this website today,because I am looking around for how to bring my mother and sister in USA. I moved to USA 8 years ago,I will send my citizenship application next week. Now,my father passed away three years ago and since that day everything got worse,to make this question not too long,my mother and sister are in a very bad financial situation. I have read you can only apply for a relative if you are a citizen,again I will do it this next week,but they can not live in that condition anymore and I was thinking about have them come in as visitor and then apply for their GC here. I am very afraid they can deny this to them,I don't know really how the system work in cases like this.I came here thru marriage so it was a little different. So,my question is,can I take the risk to bring them here,instead to wait for me to get citizenship and then apply for their visa while they are there? By the way,they are in Italy. Please any suggestion would be great,I am so worry about them! Thank you to all!
 
manueluccia said:
I was thinking about have them come in as visitor and then apply for their GC here. I am very afraid they can deny this to them
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They cannot come under the VWP and adjust status.

Your mother will be an Immediate Relative once you naturalize, and is not subject to numerical wait times. She can get her GC via consular processing in 9-12 months.

Your sister falls under FB4 and has a long (11 year) wait for a visa number.
 
Manuela,

Unfortunately they can't come as visitors with the intent of staying.
And even if they take the risk, they will be out of status after 90 days, as you will not be a citizen for at least another 6 months.
Best way is to send your N-400 asap, become a citizen, and then sponsoring your mother through CP. Reasonable timeline: 1 year and a half.
For your sister there's very little you can do. It would probably take less time by having your mother sponsoring her when she becomes a US citizen. Still many years though.
 
Triple Citizen said:
Are they Italian citizens? If so, I am sure there are welfare programs there that can help them out financially.
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Not really, unless you're a govt employee (or former employee). And everything got crazy (and I mean crazy) expensive over the last few years.
 
I am very surprised since Italy is one of the better welfare states in the EU. Health care, education, housing, etc are all offered to low-income families. The OP justified the move due to financial hardship. Taking into account Italy and the US, I was surprised by the OP's deduction that his two relatives will be better off if they move from Italy to the US. I guess it is an individual's call.
Mind you, I am assuming the relatives are citizens or legal residents of Italy.


sarrebal said:
Not really, unless you're a govt employee (or former employee). And everything got crazy (and I mean crazy) expensive over the last few years.
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I have cousins living in Italy for 20 years and I also passed the opportunity to claim British citizenship. Does this qualify me?

sarrebal said:
If your nickname were "Quadruple Citizen" and one of them was Italy, then you would have a different idea about it... lol
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I really wanted to do so,but with the dollar being so low and the euro being so high.to send money for them to live,it would be send all my paycheck,and i do have family here. Italy was nice long time ago,now the situation is horrible,who is not there to live in first person can't understand.
 
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