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They have a different idea of family, OP. My husband and his family acts like this (but they'd send a wedding gift). In their mind, it doesn't matter how little contact you have or how well you know each other, if a relative is in difficulties, you help them out. My husband and his siblings have paid for the schooling of distant nieces and nephews they've never even met, back in their home country! My family would NEVER do this! :-)

You're well within your rights to politely decline to host them, of course. Just trying to explain that these sort of people do exist, and they're not bad people.

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I am actually an immigrant and I'd never financially support an able bodied person. I paid for my own degree, while in most countries post-secondary education is free. I am against mooching off relatives. I don't think these are bad people or good people. They are just not present. They never wanted a relationship with us, so now we get a barrage of phone calls that first started with "can we stay at your place for 2 months" and when we told them "no", they went "well, why not?" Involving elderly relatives is just such bad taste. [/quote]

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