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    Default Re: Immigration Options for a Minor Grandchild

    Thank you.
    So you believe, a "kinship care" status is not attainable for her? It's weekend, talking to attorneys is not quite possible. But that is in plans, I doubt we'll manage without this. We have plenty of local ones, it's rather a vast and still growing community here.
    I simply wanted to seek preliminary opinions here, before going legal (and paid for) help. Forums have always been first line of help.
    Also, why private schools? I know that student exchange program will not work, as they do not permit choice of school. We looked into this few years back, schools decide who goes where.
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    Public schools do not grant the I-20s required for F-1 visas. If she were here as a dependent such as H-4 or J-2, she would be admitted to public schools. The problem is obtaining a visa for entry which requires the I-20 for a student visa.

    Does your son have the education and skills for an H-1B, L-1, or J-1 visa? Would he be interested in an F-1 visa for himself? Could you support his tuition and the living expenses for all four of them? If he were the primary, the children could enter as his dependents.

    I am only familiar with the "kinship care" term in relation to foster care. As a foreign national living abroad, she would be ineligible for foster care. You may be thinking of the children who entered illegally and had to be placed and it was done with extended family members just to get them out of holding facilities.

    As for local attorneys, be sure they have the proper credentials, experience, and contacts in the Ukraine.

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    Default Re: Immigration Options for a Minor Grandchild

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    As a foreign national living abroad, she would be ineligible for foster care. You may be thinking of the children who entered illegally and had to be placed and it was done with extended family members just to get them out of holding facilities.
    Thank you, that's what I was looking for. I came across kinship when looking into foster, but I do not want to put foster angle onto this, no wrong doing from son. Even if it's pro forma only. Kinship sounded like a better, more gentle option.
    Kinship care is the full-time care of children by relatives. Kinship care occurs informally, when children are not involved with public child welfare agencies, and formally, when public child welfare agencies are involved in placing children with relatives. Informal and formal kinship caregivers are gaining greater recognition by federal and state governments for their roles in the child welfare system.
    http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/ReportFile/7...ull-Report.pdf

    I may try calling WA State DSHS and find out if this can be accomplished for an out of country relative.
    All other venues you mentioned will be time taking and I have simple reasons, mostly age related, not to drag on at least her relocation. The younger they are, the faster they adopt and have more doors opened education wise for them that way.

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    Default Re: Immigration Options for a Minor Grandchild

    While you are well meaning, you need to consider the effect on all of the children and your son if she were to relocate at a time when all are grieving the loss of their mother/wife. Your son needs her at home as a support to her younger siblings.

    I know of several young women from Estonia and Russia who came to the university and have adapted well to life in the US. One now teaches at a private school in town, and the other is an instructor at the university. There really is no rush. It is better to do it correctly than haphazardly. If you apply for your son, he can then apply for his children. He can obtain a reentry permit in order to stay with them until they receive a visa number. This is actually a faster way for them to obtain green cards.

    The key is for him to remain single until he has a green card otherwise his wait is much longer.

    I still recommend you meet with an attorney; be sure they specialize in family (not employment) issues.

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