There is the possibliity to get a resident visa if you can prove you are the sole provider. Also as qatman has not mentioned, if you want to have your mother visit on vacation(tourist) you need to do the visa request and not your husband. When my wife lived here, we had her family visit but they needed my wife's RP card and not mine. They told me she has to request for the tourist visa since it is her immediate family. The fastest way is to go to the aiport with the copy of your mothers passport and put in the request and pay. They will give you a reciept with the request number. You will have to check for the visa on line. We recieved it the same day about 10 hours later.