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I am a green card holder through marriage to US citizen. I am working in a American Transportation company in the Florida. My mother is at the age of 62 and retired, but working just for part-time in Japan.
I would like to legally live with mom in Florida, but immigration law does not allow green-card holder to support visa for a parent. It neither allow US citizen (my wife) for mother-in-law.
Is there any way for my mother to live in the US leaglly???
Any suggestion, appreciated.
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Calibur

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I believe that u can get her here by using a tourist visa. She can stay here as long as she doesn't work. In that case, she can stay until u get your citizenship and then u can apply for her residency. I think a lot of time the US will give her a 5 years visa. Good luck.
 
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Olga

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I am not an inmigration specialist, I hear news here and there and I think that if you are a permanent resident married to a US citizen, you should be able to apply for your US citizenship after 3 years of marriage to your spouse. Then you would be able to petition your mom, it takes (or used to) up to 6 months after your petition is approved for her to be given a resident visa, that is the legal way to do it. A tourist visa allows you to be in this country (cannot work) for 3 months, then you can get an extension and is usually given for another 3 months, then you have to leave the country. The "multiple visa" is good for i.e. 5, 10 years, but it doesn't mean that you can stay here that long! It means that once you have that visa and you come into the US, the INS gives you something like 3 or more months to visit, when the time is up then you have it renewed the second time and then you leave the US. The next time you want to come to the US, you do not need to go to the US Embassy in your country to get a visa, you already have it. A lot of people come with that type of visa and do not return to their home country, so they become illegal aliens in the US.
 

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