My father is a greencard holder since 2021. He arrived in the US in 2017, applied for a EB2 and has been in the US since then. In 2019 I entered the US with a tourist visa and changed my status (all legal cause I decided to stay after arriving in the US). Everything was okay until the pandemic and I went back to my country and lost the interview since I was stuck in my country because of travel restrictions. My father remained there and got his greencard.
Fast forward to 2024 I applied with an US attorney for a I-130 and started applying for a greencard while in Brazil (im Brazilian btw and I was 20 years old when I applied). This was in September 2024, 18 months ago. I wanted to visit my father cause I don’t see him has been many years and he can’t get back to my country, but when I tried to renew my tourist visa I was denied. I have a very good job in finance in a Swiss bank in Brazil and make a lot of money in my country, but they didn’t give a shit. I have zero reasons for overstaying my visa, and why would I throw away my greencard just to move illegally to the US with a tourist visa???
- Will I be forever blocked from having a tourist visa?? And if my greencard get rejected, I won’t be able to go to the US??
- why is it taking soo long for the greencard? It seems as the US punish people that do everything right.
- I’ve never been illegal and my first immigration case was canceled because I couldn’t go to the interview. Is there any chance they deny my greencard even if my father has it??