Sponsoring family
Nov 17th 2017, 3:54 pm
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Nov 17th 2017, 3:58 pm
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Re: Sponsoring family
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Nov 18th 2017, 2:11 pm
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Re: Sponsoring family
- at 21 (or older) your children may have no interest in moving with you. Most have left home by then and got their own lives.
- the children would have to remain unmarried to qualify. They cannot bring spouses, fiances, partners, etc with them so if in the meantime they have met the love of their life in the U.K. (or anywhere else outside the USA) they might not want to go and leave them behind
- if anything happens to your brother (death or he just decides not to sponsor you anymore) your petition and chances of a visa also die
- immigration is very much a moveable feast, now more than ever. Such categories of chain migration could be axed anyway
So you are dealing with something that is by no means a certainty. If you're a gambling man, then go ahead. But I wouldn't bet the farm on getting a visa this way for all of you. Remember also, just because you are hell-bent on living here (and the older you get, the less that makes sense to me considering you'll have to start from scratch again with getting a job, place to live, etc) your kids may not be so thrilled about it when the time comes.
Nov 18th 2017, 2:17 pm
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Re: Sponsoring family
Potentially. CSPA allows the amount of time that the petition is pending with USCIS to be deducted from the child's age. However:
- at 21 (or older) your children may have no interest in moving with you. Most have left home by then and got their own lives.
- the children would have to remain unmarried to qualify. They cannot bring spouses, fiances, partners, etc with them so if in the meantime they have met the love of their life in the U.K. (or anywhere else outside the USA) they might not want to go and leave them behind
- if anything happens to your brother (death or he just decides not to sponsor you anymore) your petition and chances of a visa also die
- immigration is very much a moveable feast, now more than ever. Such categories of chain migration could be axed anyway
So you are dealing with something that is by no means a certainty. If you're a gambling man, then go ahead. But I wouldn't bet the farm on getting a visa this way for all of you. Remember also, just because you are hell-bent on living here (and the older you get, the less that makes sense to me considering you'll have to start from scratch again with getting a job, place to live, etc) your kids may not be so thrilled about it when the time comes.
- at 21 (or older) your children may have no interest in moving with you. Most have left home by then and got their own lives.
- the children would have to remain unmarried to qualify. They cannot bring spouses, fiances, partners, etc with them so if in the meantime they have met the love of their life in the U.K. (or anywhere else outside the USA) they might not want to go and leave them behind
- if anything happens to your brother (death or he just decides not to sponsor you anymore) your petition and chances of a visa also die
- immigration is very much a moveable feast, now more than ever. Such categories of chain migration could be axed anyway
So you are dealing with something that is by no means a certainty. If you're a gambling man, then go ahead. But I wouldn't bet the farm on getting a visa this way for all of you. Remember also, just because you are hell-bent on living here (and the older you get, the less that makes sense to me considering you'll have to start from scratch again with getting a job, place to live, etc) your kids may not be so thrilled about it when the time comes.
Nov 18th 2017, 4:32 pm
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Re: Sponsoring family
The citizen sibling category has been long proposed for elimination. What I say "long" it's elimination was proposed in the 1980 proposals which eventually became the 1986 and 1990 legislation.
Also, there is a history of not abolishing existing waiting lists.
Nov 19th 2017, 10:18 pm
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Re: Sponsoring family
No prediction of the future. That said, examination of the past may be useful.
The citizen sibling category has been long proposed for elimination. What I say "long" it's elimination was proposed in the 1980 proposals which eventually became the 1986 and 1990 legislation.
Also, there is a history of not abolishing existing waiting lists.
The citizen sibling category has been long proposed for elimination. What I say "long" it's elimination was proposed in the 1980 proposals which eventually became the 1986 and 1990 legislation.
Also, there is a history of not abolishing existing waiting lists.
