Spouse of LRP applying for Visitor's Visa: UniteFamilies.org Typical

This question is question/answer post is explaining it all:

QUESTION:

Hi, I'm LPR Spouse I would like to know if anybody has got a tourist visa after filing I-130. Is it possible? Or should I wait for the Approval of the petition before I apply for a tourist visa?!..

Thank you in advance :)

ANSWER:

Hello Michelle

You are in the same situation we are right now. Let me explain it:

Lets say that you are in the American Consulate somewhere in the world trying to apply for a visitor's visa to visit your husband. When you fill your visa application, there is a field in the form that asks you: "Are you on an immigration process right now?" you have to answer "YES" because if you say no, you will be lying to the immigration officer and then you will be doomed.

Now, the immigration officer will say: how can you guarantee me that you are going to come back to your country after your visit if you have your house, your husband and your life in the US?. You have just become an Intended Immigrant. He will, of course, deny any visitor or student visa. In other words, you don't have strong bonds to go back to your country.

Then we go through this dilemma: how can the immigration office separates whole families in an inhumane act like this? If they don't do that, they will be breaking the rule of the intended immigrant. There is a huge crack in the system.

As you cannot convince the immigration officer that you are going to be back because if you stay your whole process will be burned in flames (they simply don't understand that, I tried already), our hope is to convince the politicians to change the law and allow the spouses of the LPR to gather with their loved ones, and that is the purpose of forums like this one.

This has been a little piece of my experience, after 4 years of separation from my wife. I'm just hoping to become an American citizen and bring her over next year.

I read before that one of the guys here got a non immigrant visa for the spouse. But that was one in a million.

Best of luck for you!

(post taken from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unitefamilies/)