Good afternoon friends. I'm Latoya, McBean POY, an immigration lawyer in New York. And
in this video and live session, for those of you who are joining me live today, I'm
gonna talk about how to bring a relative to the United States who is sick. Okay. This
is a question and a process that comes up all the time. You're here in the United States,
but your relative is abroad. They're sick and they need medical treatment. And you're
thinking, well, how do I bring them here for treatment in this video, I'm gonna discuss
two ways of doing so, uh, as you're joining me this afternoon, uh, comment below, let
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or you can do so@mcbeanlaw.com at any hour of the day. Okay. So let's talk about this
friends. This is a question that we received and we answered, um, on our email list, our
e-news, which I encourage you to sign up for. I'll put the link here shortly so that you
guys can see how to sign up for our E news. But in essence, each week we answer questions,
um, on our email list and, uh, randomly choose questions that we receive. This is an important
one. So I'm, I'm doing this video, this live session, because I thought maybe this could
help some people.
Okay. So here's the question that we received. Um, it says I am a us permanent resident and
I have a brother who's seriously sick. Is there a way that I can bring him here for
treatment, please help me. Okay. So in our email, we responded that yes, in fact, there
are ways of bringing a sick relative to the United States. And the first way friends is
by seeking a medical B2 visa. Okay. And that is sought through the DS one 60 visa application
process online, and embasies are prioritized in these types of interviews, but you must
be prepared with evidence that there is, um, a medical need and you have evidence of that.
And if they approve it, then that's great. You can come to the United States on that
medical B2 visa so that you can get your treatment the second way that you can, uh, help your
relative is by having them apply for what we call humanitarian parole.
Humanitarian parole is a process that allows you to apply to U S C I S for, um, uh, a period
of time that you could stay here in the United States to address that urgent, compelling
emergency that you have. And I, you know, in our email, we did say, we also said that
this process, unfortunately, is not a very fast one. The approval, the approval process
is not very fast. Some people wait a year, uh, or longer for the, uh, for the response.
Um, and also the second drawback to the process is that the standard has gotten tougher. As
of late recently, the process it's tougher get a humanitarian parole approved, uh, by
U S C I S. So you should seek professional help to get, uh, to prepare this application
for you to, uh, give you a better chance of getting it approved. All right.
And we also mentioned in our email response that if humanitarian parole is granted, it
would permit the brother, uh, to remain in the United States longer than the medical
B2 visa, unless the medical, uh, the B2 visa is then extended because, you know, the reason,
uh, the medical need continues, it's possible to get an extension. Okay. So on U S C I S's
website. So the is our email, this is our E news. Um, and we sent this response out
just a couple of days ago, as a matter of fact. So get on our email list, here's the
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Now, the other thing is this, let's talk a little bit about humanitarian parole, uh,
and I've jumped over to U S C I S's website. Give me a second here. Let me adjust the,
the settings. Okay. So U S C I S uh, ind Kate on its website specifically that it's, um,
that folks are eligible to apply for humanitarian parole, if they have a compelling emergency.
And there is an urgent, humanitarian reason, or even a significant public benefit, uh,
to allowing them to enter the United States temporarily. And they also say that anyone
can apply, anyone can apply for humanitarian parole, uh, but if you do not have an urgent
humanitarian reason for the visit, then you've gotta go through the normal visa application
process through the state department. Okay. And then on this, excuse me, on this website,
they, you know, there's instructions here on how to apply and, uh, the fact that you
need to submit support and evidence, uh, of your claim about the, uh, urgent need to travel
to the United States.
So friends, those are the two ways of, um, getting your relative here to the United States.
When a medical reason is there they're sick, they need treatment, they can't get the treatment
in their home country. Um, and so they could seek either the medical B2 visa or, uh, or
they could see humanitarian parole. Okay. So that's what I wanna share with you in this
one, share this video with other people, because this issue comes up a lot with immigration.
Uh, lastly, before I go, I also wanna mention that if you're relative has an inadmissibility
problem, let's say for example, they had applied for a visa in the past, if they were denied
for, um, maybe a serious reason, or maybe they were deported and now they're sick and
they wanna come back, um, will this work for them? And so my aunt to this question is,
well, it really depends.
They may very well need a waiver along with the steps that I've just described in this
video. They may need a waiver. So get the case professionally looked at to determine
which type of waiver they're gonna need as they are pursuing to, uh, come to the us or
to, to the us after being deported. Okay, guys, thanks so much for being with me in
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guys share this with other people, and I will see you guys soon. Bye bye.