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Our situation: Please bear with me.... I'm gritting my teeth again.... First the "pretty normal" stuff- our background - Wife came over on K-1 visa, we married, adjusted status and wife now has 10 year green card. Badly misses her daughter. - Her unmarried daughter was 25 when we married and was in graduate school in England. She applied for a tourist visa to visit us and was turned down due (no reason given but I assume for no strong ties to China). - Daughter has since returned to China and now has worked in Beijing for 18 months. - I asked on this forum what were the chances of an unmarried under 30 year old woman with less than a year job experience and little property getting a tourist VISA to visit us in USA and the consensus was it was impossible. This advice consistent with what I expected and had read both here and elsewhere. SO it was pretty obvious she would not be visiting us in the USA anytime soon. - So I advised my wife to apply for an immigration visa for her daughter. She did so 18 months ago and it looks like (based on the recent Visa bulletins) she will need to wait another 8 years for a spot to open up. If she marries then my wife needs to become citizen and the wait is an additional 2 years or so. - Now daughter won't be able to come as a tourist for the next 8 years as she cannot show that she does not have "intent to immigrate" but I think it is a non-issue as she pretty much wasn't going to get a tourist visa anyway, -My wife believed that my plan was the best course of action....UNTIL.... Now the "interesting stuff" - Wife's Chinese couple friends down the street here in Florida brought their parents over on a tourist Visa yesterday and announced. that the parents will just stay in USA and live here. Their Chinese-American lawyer told them once the parents are in the country there is" no problem adjusting status to become a permanent immigrant- just make sure they do not leave" - Now wife's Chinese doctor here in Florida suggested I could have done same thing to get step-daughter here and that I am basically an idiot for filing for legal immigration. At this point in the story (if you haven't fallen asleep yet) you are probably -"shocked" that my wife would believe anything told to her about American immigration laws by another Chinese person over her husband who has lived in USA for 6 decades. - "amazed" at my stupidity for agreeing to wait in line stepdaughters immigration visa for 10 years when there is such an easy way to accomplish this in 6 months by getting her in as a tourist and adjusting status or -"stunned" that I need to validate my assumptions, show your responses to my wife and have her tell her friends (who are planning to close on a house for their tourist/immigrant parents next month) the truth that the must wait in line like everyone else. -all involved get that there is a line and that people need to wait in it - they just don't think that it applies to them. Please Help!...and please spell it out in simple plain English so my wife can easily understand.... Q1. Is there any circumstance where persons admitted to the USA on a tourist visa can adjust status to an immigration visa? Q2. What will happen to the "tourists" if they just stay in the USA after their tourist Visa expires? Q3. Can said "tourists" apply for and get US Social Security and Medicare benefits when they overstay their Visa? Q4. Can anyone answering these questions claim to be "Born in China" ? (as we all know that a Chinese person you met randomly 3 minutes ago is certainly more of an expert on America, American immigration and life in the USA than some of us old out of touch geezers who were born here and have lived here for 60 years.)