well your understanding is partially right but not totally correct. at least how the fair system should work but looks like they go by their mood too lots of times. .  even if everything is right they still deny visitor visas to parents. someone close to me came here twice in last 7 years and always returned on time. has never worked and is  73 years and  definately has lots of assets and bank balance in Nepal. her children are not illegal either in usa nd doing very well..and paying taxes and being good citizens. but they still denied ...
    It's becaues of fake asylees.. it has become extermly hard because of these fake asylum filers... every Nepali student is filing asylum now a days..what's going on? i mean yes, real people who face persecution should file but just because you chose a crappy major in college, got 2.0 gpa and graduated in 7 years with no prospect to find a job with your crappy outcome does not make you eligible for asylum.. ridiculous...everyday i see in sajha about asylumm.. there was one thread where they were openly discussing about writing stories for 1500 somewhere in texas... wtf... we as a community should immediately report such threads to the authorities and serve our duty of a good resident /citizen. i highly encourage all Nepali friends to come up as a community to stop the cheaters who are cheating the most generous system of this country. 

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