Infant traveling to US with grandparents
My infant (14 months old) is a US citizen with a valid passport. She’s currently in India (with a valid visa) and will be traveling with her grandparents in March (POE - San Francisco). We (parents) will be providing the necessary notarized authorization letter.
Will there be any immigration issue for the grandparents? Will the immigration officer question as to why she is traveling with them and there give less than 6 months of stay?
P.S. Grandparents have a valid US Visa
Best Answer
Anything is possible, but trouble at immigration strikes me as unlikely. Foreign grandparents of US-citizen grandchildren visit the US on B visas all the time. That they are traveling with the US-citizen grandchild would not have any logical bearing on their tendency or inclination to overstay or otherwise violate the conditions of their visitor status.
Whether the child's parents are US citizens, permanent residents, or (long-term) nonimmigrants should have no bearing on this.
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