给vo的信，恳请大家指点，smallfox请看过来# Reunion - 探亲与陪读
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背景介绍：
下个月，我和我妈妈会在北京一起签证，她签B2，我返签H1B。这样安排是考虑到我妈
妈的个人情况会很难轻松签过，想和她一起携签。我妈妈退休，离异，无房产，白护照
，我是独女。我自己呢，其实签证也很不容易，当年F2签了两次悲剧，第3签和老公一
起签过，来美国后读书转F1，工作转H1B，去年转H1B时，第一次悲剧，第二次才成功。
所以我不是特别确定我和妈妈一起签证是个正确的决定。
看了很多帖子，我反复修改给vo的信，重点强调我妈妈为什么回回国，强调她在国内生
活开心，和她的姐姐哥哥们的好关系，经常local travel，她回国后的旅行计划等，请
大家帮忙看看。
有几个问题：
1，信有点长，但又不知道该删掉什么了
2，没有主动提当年自己赴美的原因和后来的身份转变，也没有主动提我妈妈离异和退
休，虽然里面有说到她每个月有退休工资，不知道是否合适
3，基于我和妈妈的情况，我们一起签合适吗？
Dear Visa Officer,
Thank you for processing my mother’s visa application. She plans to visit
the United States from May 1st to 31st. I hope this letter can be helpful
for the process.
My mother plans to visit New York, the city where I live, and other great
places in the northeast, which I always mentioned to her on the phone. She
wants to see how great it is walking in the Central Park, standing on the
torch of the Statue of Liberty, quad riding on the Governors Island, and
enjoying art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will also go to
Washington, DC, Boston, and Niagara Falls. Shopping at New York City and
Woodbury Outlets, of course, is on the agenda. My mother will stay with me,
and she will pay for all other expenses during her visit. With enough
savings to maintain her lifestyle, she has steady income from her monthly
retired pay and annual dividend from her former employer, and she receives
annual bonus from her investment. She also has full coverage medicare
insurance. Bankbooks and documents with detailed financial records are
enclosed.
My mother is the youngest with five sisters and a big brother. Having been
living in XXXX for more than 50 years, she enjoys a comfortable life there
spending time with her siblings playing mahjong, tasting tea, dancing,
karaoking, gossiping, shopping, etc. She and her sisters have their own “
Sisters Day”, the first Sunday of every month, to get together in a park or
a tea house playing mahjong, tasting tea, and food sampling. They take
turns to make reservations and pay for food and drinks.
My mother and her siblings frequently make family travels to places in XXXX
for mountain climbing, boating, food tasting, and history learning often in
summer and during the weeklong National Day holiday. They have been to
several places. A family travels map and travel photos are enclosed. She has
made travel plans with her sisters for this year. She is expecting a visit
from her third-elderly sister to XXX in July, whom she stayed with during
the past New Year holiday week in Shifang, Sichuan. She will go to XXXX to
visit her second-elderly sister this November. Letters from the two sisters
are also enclosed.
Closely connected to her big family, my mother never misses any family
gathering, as it is a tradition that families get together on holidays such
as Spring Festival, Dragon Day, and Mid-Autumn Day. She will be organizing
the coming Dragon Day family party on June 12th.
I went back to China to visit my mother for two months in 2009. Although
intense study and work kept me from visiting her often, we keep in close
contact through letters, phone calls and webcam chat. Postcards, phone-call
records, and texts are enclosed. We wish to add a new chapter of travel
photos through her trip in the US into our family photo albums.
Again, I greatly appreciate your time and consideration! Wish you a happy
and prosperous lunar year!
Sincerely yours,
下个月，我和我妈妈会在北京一起签证，她签B2，我返签H1B。这样安排是考虑到我妈
妈的个人情况会很难轻松签过，想和她一起携签。我妈妈退休，离异，无房产，白护照
，我是独女。我自己呢，其实签证也很不容易，当年F2签了两次悲剧，第3签和老公一
起签过，来美国后读书转F1，工作转H1B，去年转H1B时，第一次悲剧，第二次才成功。
所以我不是特别确定我和妈妈一起签证是个正确的决定。
看了很多帖子，我反复修改给vo的信，重点强调我妈妈为什么回回国，强调她在国内生
活开心，和她的姐姐哥哥们的好关系，经常local travel，她回国后的旅行计划等，请
大家帮忙看看。
有几个问题：
1，信有点长，但又不知道该删掉什么了
2，没有主动提当年自己赴美的原因和后来的身份转变，也没有主动提我妈妈离异和退
休，虽然里面有说到她每个月有退休工资，不知道是否合适
3，基于我和妈妈的情况，我们一起签合适吗？
Dear Visa Officer,
Thank you for processing my mother’s visa application. She plans to visit
the United States from May 1st to 31st. I hope this letter can be helpful
for the process.
My mother plans to visit New York, the city where I live, and other great
places in the northeast, which I always mentioned to her on the phone. She
wants to see how great it is walking in the Central Park, standing on the
torch of the Statue of Liberty, quad riding on the Governors Island, and
enjoying art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will also go to
Washington, DC, Boston, and Niagara Falls. Shopping at New York City and
Woodbury Outlets, of course, is on the agenda. My mother will stay with me,
and she will pay for all other expenses during her visit. With enough
savings to maintain her lifestyle, she has steady income from her monthly
retired pay and annual dividend from her former employer, and she receives
annual bonus from her investment. She also has full coverage medicare
insurance. Bankbooks and documents with detailed financial records are
enclosed.
My mother is the youngest with five sisters and a big brother. Having been
living in XXXX for more than 50 years, she enjoys a comfortable life there
spending time with her siblings playing mahjong, tasting tea, dancing,
karaoking, gossiping, shopping, etc. She and her sisters have their own “
Sisters Day”, the first Sunday of every month, to get together in a park or
a tea house playing mahjong, tasting tea, and food sampling. They take
turns to make reservations and pay for food and drinks.
My mother and her siblings frequently make family travels to places in XXXX
for mountain climbing, boating, food tasting, and history learning often in
summer and during the weeklong National Day holiday. They have been to
several places. A family travels map and travel photos are enclosed. She has
made travel plans with her sisters for this year. She is expecting a visit
from her third-elderly sister to XXX in July, whom she stayed with during
the past New Year holiday week in Shifang, Sichuan. She will go to XXXX to
visit her second-elderly sister this November. Letters from the two sisters
are also enclosed.
Closely connected to her big family, my mother never misses any family
gathering, as it is a tradition that families get together on holidays such
as Spring Festival, Dragon Day, and Mid-Autumn Day. She will be organizing
the coming Dragon Day family party on June 12th.
I went back to China to visit my mother for two months in 2009. Although
intense study and work kept me from visiting her often, we keep in close
contact through letters, phone calls and webcam chat. Postcards, phone-call
records, and texts are enclosed. We wish to add a new chapter of travel
photos through her trip in the US into our family photo albums.
Again, I greatly appreciate your time and consideration! Wish you a happy
and prosperous lunar year!
Sincerely yours,
