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Your son needs to receive a permanent residence status, and if by then he is under 18, you can file for his US passport. However, it is best if you consult with an attorney who would get familiar with all facts of the case.

Applying for a visa before the 10-year bar is up will waste your time and money: you are inadmissible, and no consul can give you a visa. Worse, if - by mistake or mischief - a visa gets issued, an immigration inspector at the airport will turn you around and send you home. After the bar expires, your chances of obtaining a visa a slim, at best. If you apply, try to collect as much as you can proof of your ties to Ireland (this is where family, especially, children come to be considered). You are required to prove that, more likely than not, you will return home after the visit to the U.S. Property ownership, residential lease, a letter from an employer showing your gainful employment and his expectation of your return to work after this vacation; enrollment into a college for the semester after the trip to the U.S., etc. - anything that shows that you have obligations and commitments that will require your return to Ireland within a few weeks. Alternatively, at the end of your 10-year bar, your fiance can file an application for a K1 visa for you. This way, there will be no need to prove that you do not intend to stay in the U.S., and you can get married within 90 days from your arrival. After that, applying for a green card and living in the U.S. or going to Ireland will be your family's choice.

If your plan is to have your mother visit first, you should not submit the petition until after she has been granted a visitor visa. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to get one if the consulate is aware that an immigrant petition has been filed for your mother.