Visa Question Visa to USA for Wife

Have a look at this link and try googling for "tourist visa for wife of expat".

https://lawandborder.com/applying-f...pleasure-visa-as-the-spouse-of-a-u-s-citizen/

The other option is a spousal visa. This is probably the smarter option for your wife since it will allow other benefits, but will likely take longer to get.

 

Hmm, you're talking about pre-brexit stuff, but you're wrong. I assure you it's probably harder for a Dutch citizen to get a (non EU) spouse approved to live in the Netherlands. One big difference would already be that the aspiring immigrant spouse needs to learn Dutch language and culture while still in their own country, and take an exam (which most fail) before they can even apply for a resident visa. Other requirements are similar to what other european countries ask.
So I could similarly say that (pre-brexit) it was much easier for a UK person to bring their (non EU) spouse to the Netherlands than it is for a Dutch person to do the same.
The whole thing is based on article 45 of the EU Charter of fundamental rights. That article establishes that people who reside legally in an EU country can choose their residence freely in any EU member state. So yeah, after going through the trouble to get your non EU spouse a long term residence permit for your own country, you can then move to any other EU country if you wish to live and work there.
Maybe you didn't intend to, but it sounded like you were describing a uniquely UK "problem".

 

I recall from past experiences that others posted here that YOUR visa status in the Philippines also is a factor. If you have permanent residency in the Philippines, and the visa to prove it, that is some evidence to support that your wife would return to the Philippines with you and not and not overstay in the US.
I'll also mention (and this is from personal experience) that US immigration makes some decisions that are seemingly not based on common sense. Our daughter's grand-mother-in-law, a widowed Philippines citizen, was eligible to be petitioned for permanent residency in the US because her daughter (our daughter's mother-in-law) was a naturalized US citizen. But she really only wanted to visit her grandkids in the US for a few months. You'd think her status would give her a leg up on getting a tourist visa, but no, they denied her, on the grounds she didn't have enough ties to ensure she would return to the Philippines. So her family went ahead and petitioned her and she got a green card, even though that was over kill for her situation.

 

Yes, the relative (spousal) visa is probably the better way to go. The only issue is that I will have to give up the FEIE tax exclusion.

11. Applying for a family-sponsored green card is not necessarily a cure after being denied a B1/B2 visa. While the foreign spouse need not prove any intent to reside in the U.S. in order to qualify for a green card, still the U.S. citizen spouse must ordinarily prove “domicile” in the U.S., meaning that not later than when the foreign spouse immigrates the citizen spouse must make the U.S. home most nights with the intent to remain so for the foreseeable future.

 

The UK still follows EU rules until the point of final exit on December 31st.

And how can I be "wrong" when I am describing the difficulty of a UK citizen getting a non-EU foreign spouse into the UK, compared with the simplicity of a person from another EU country getting the same class of spouse into the UK, when you then describe the difficulty of getting a similar class of spouse into the Netherlands?

I was writing about the UK.