Visa for Mother-in-law for the US

wizzywigman · #1 08-25-2009, 05:03 PM

I am american and my wife just came to U.S from DR in December 2008 on fiance visa. We have 2 sons(9, 10) and a daughter(14 months) and another baby on the way. We would like for my wife's mother(who lives in Santo Domingo) to come to U.S and spend a few months here helping out my wife with the kids. My mother-in-law is around 70 years old, has a house in her name and is married.

1)What are the possibilities of her getting a tourist visa to come here?

2)Someone mentioned maybe bringing her here as a 'niñera' nfor my two daughters. Is that a possibility?

edm7583 · #2 08-26-2009, 05:16 PM

The chances of getting a B-2 visa (tourism or personal visit) are slim even if she owns her own house. Now, if she has a business or large amounts of property and a small fortune in the bank, then maybe. The visa for a domestic worker would be H-2B (semi skilled, non agricultural worker). To bring her in as a temporary worker, you must prove that there are not able to find a nanny in the US to do the job. Still a pretty daunting task, and I´m sure they will find out that she is your mother in law and then its probably a no go. Also, most foreigners who get the H-2B visas are young women who are recruited though agencies in the US, and have special experience and formal training in early childhood development.

Your mother-in-law will have a much better chance at an immigrant visa once your wife obtains U.S. citizenship, than at any classification of non-immigrant visa. U.S. immigration law is focused more on people coming here permanently, than just staying temporarily. That´s just the way the laws are written; with the presumption that once someone comes to the U.S, why would they want to go back to wherever they came from?

AlterEgo · #3 08-26-2009, 05:49 PM

Does your mother-in-law have a husband? Other children in DR? Both my mother-in-law and father-in-law had no trouble getting a tourist visa to visit their son [my husband] many, many times over the past 30+ years. I went with my suegro to the American Embassy in SD, when they heard that his other 5 children were in SD, and his wife too, they gave him the visa. The guy at the embassy DID tell me that I shouldn't have come, that having a child in the US makes them more suspicious that they won't come back. But he approved it any way. My suegra is now 88 and has no problem renewing her visa, she's a widow now. She owns a house in SD, and that's it. No big bank account.

wizzywigman · #4 08-27-2009, 07:52 AM

My mother in law is married and has two other children in DR. She is in the process of renewing her passport and applying for the tourist visa. I was thinking about the immigrant visa, but she is 70years old and my wife will not be a citizen anytime soon and I know the immigrant visa proces takes a while. We will go with the tourist visa and see how things go.

Thanks

bienamor · #5 08-27-2009, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by wizzywigman

My mother in law is married and has two other children in DR. She is in the process of renewing her passport and applying for the tourist visa. I was thinking about the immigrant visa, but she is 70years old and my wife will not be a citizen anytime soon and I know the immigrant visa proces takes a while. We will go with the tourist visa and see how things go.

Thanks

Keep us posted thanks interested in how it turns out