₦airaland Forum

SmartKitty:
Totally true. As for immigration services taking care of kids by not an NO authorized to work alien even for free, it's this alien takes the job of an American or a legal resident because in case if there is no grand ma, the parents pay the day care or a nanny. It generates the internal revenue. However, if the grand ma is a legal resident, she can take care of her grand kids for free or being paid.

If your relatives are visiting the U.S. to take care of you and the baby, you would not be hiring the services of the daycare
provider. Therefore, you are considered depriving the U.S. workers of their work. Working on a tourist visa is not allowed as
your relatives are babysitting which is considered work. Babysitting is considered a job and the baby sitter is considered to be
working, whether the person is getting paid for it or not. In other words, the grandmother is working for free which is not
allowed.
If your relatives are helping you to take care of the housework, you are depriving the U.S. workers of their cleaning job.
If the intention of the relatives is to indeed help with babysitting and the housework, many of them would end up extending
their stay and would want to come frequently and stay excessively, all of those factors are against the actual intentions of the
visitors visa and the consular officers already know this. That is why it is a bad idea to mention pregnancy as the reason to visit
the U.S.
The consular officer is looking for improving the U.S. economy and people spending money on tourism and shopping by the
visitors, rather than loss to the economy in terms of babysitting and maid work and are also concerned about unauthorized
work.

I absolutely agree with you!
So the last time she appeared, she mentioned she was going to visit her daughter and grand child (told her to say that with the hope that it will increase her chances of getting the Visa), so now should she just say she's going to visit her daughter or stick with the whole daughter and grand child story?

safetyman:
I think visiting shouldnt be more than 4weeks for a granny. its enough to see the child and get to know everyone. you know these oyibo they think wetin mama won do there for 4months

Lol...very true.
The mistake we made was saying 4months.
We will just stick with the 4 weeks.

anfanio:
4 weeks is reasonable and making months/weeks error is fairly common. What's your nationality? I'm not trying to make assumptions-- could be a factor too.

I'm Nigerian!

anfanio:
"Au pair" under J1 exchange but that's a long shot. Let her reapply and use the words "visit and see" not "take care". Technicalities in words. You can also reduce length of stay.

Oh no she told the VO she was going to visit her daughter and her grand child.
Also would you think 4 weeks is ideal so that when she's asked why she changed from 4 months to 4 weeks she can then say it was an error with the first application and she didn't realize until it was too late(meaning she had to stick to the initial info she had filled)?

anfanio:
Did she give you an idea of why she was denied?
And are you a citizen or GC holder?

I'm currently on H1B, my GC is currently in the works.
According to her, the moment she mentioned 4months the VO's countenance changed.
She was issued the generic paper that reads her intention to be in the U.S is not consistent with the Visa she applied for. (No home ties I suppose).

Hello fellow Nairalanders,
I have a quick question and I'm hoping y'all can help.

Not sure if there is a thread for mothers who are traveling on B1/B2 to help their children in the U.S take care of their grandkids. So I'm just going to post here since I didn't find the thread.

So I've invited my mum over, she was denied the first time she went. Told the VO she was staying for 4months (PS: She's 50 YO, has her own business and still married with another child in the University in Nigeria, she has never traveled out of Nigeria before as well) but still wasn't issued the Visa. According to what we filled in the DS160 I'm the one sponsoring the trip and I gave her my personal statement to take with her but the VO didn't even ask to see it nor did she collect it when she offered to show her.
Now my question is, she's going back in a few weeks and I need to know if I can just go ahead to reduce the length of stay to 4weeks and if that won't pose any issues.

Thanks.