{"id":12021,"date":"2021-04-14T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T02:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.americaeb5visa.com\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=12021"},"modified":"2021-05-31T03:42:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T22:42:06","slug":"can-our-clients-dependent-child-file-the-i-526-petition-and-then-apply-for-the-f-1-visa-is-it-better-or-worse-when-first-the-parent-applies-for-the-eb-5-and-then-the-dependent-child-applies","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.americaeb5visa.com\/punjabi\/faq\/can-our-clients-dependent-child-file-the-i-526-petition-and-then-apply-for-the-f-1-visa-is-it-better-or-worse-when-first-the-parent-applies-for-the-eb-5-and-then-the-dependent-child-applies\/","title":{"rendered":"2) Can the dependent child of the principal applicant file the I-526 petition and then apply for the F-1 visa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great question. We are getting this question a lot, especially from investors who have kids born in visa retrogression countries. Their kids are not ready to apply for the F-1 visa yet because they are still in high school in their home country. Therefore, they ask us whether, to gain time, they should go ahead and file for the EB-5 anyway and apply for the F-1 when their kids are ready to go to college. The short answer is that on a practical level, this is fine, although F-1 is not an immigrant intent visa while EB-5 is an immigrant intent petition. One could have a long-term goal of immigrant intent with a short-term goal of not an immigrant one. There is a small risk of denial, of the F-1 visa, due to the conflict between these two intents. The parent filing with the kid, as the dependent, is a much better case pattern. The one who has declared their immigrant intent becomes the parent rather than the derivative applicant, the child. In this latter case, this becomes a disclosure item when filing for the F-1 visa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","faq_groups":[52],"class_list":["post-12021","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","faq-group-eb-5-processing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americaeb5visa.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/12021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americaeb5visa.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americaeb5visa.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americaeb5visa.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americaeb5visa.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americaeb5visa.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_groups?post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}