Is getting a tourist visa has an effect on a current petition?

A foreign national may apply for a visitor's visa (B1/B2) to visit her U.S. Citizen child in the U.S., so long as she genuinely has the intention to remain in the U.S. only temporarily, and then return abroad. If the foreign national later were to decide that she would like to remain permanently, her U.S. citizen adult child could petition for her to adjust status in the Immediate Relative visa category. In that process it would be important to be able to persuade a skeptical USCIS adjudicating officer that she genuinely intended to stay only temporarily when she entered the U.S. If an adjustment of status application is filed within 60 days of entry on a visitor's visa, there becomes a legal presumption that she had "immigrant intent," and that she misused and was ineligible for a visitor's visa, which could result not only in denial of the adjustment of status application, but also could result in even more harsh consequences. Legal presumptions, however, may be rebutted upon presentation of convincing documentary evidence. If a foreign national visits her adult U.S. citizen child on a B1/B2 visa, and then timely returns home abroad, and then decides that she would like to reside permanently in the U.S., the U.S. citizen and foreign national parent may apply abroad through "consular processing" for the parent to return to the U.S. and become a Permanent Resident.