Fiance Visitor Visa To Canada

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my fiance just recently applied for a visitors visa to canada and was denied. i've known her for about 19 months now and been to thailand 7 times to visit her. the reason she was denied was because she does not currently have a job in thailand. she explained to them that she had just finished a job on a cruise ship (last week) in the carribean and mediteranian. what better time to take a vacation when she doesn't have to have to try to take holidaysb from a job? hat was what i thought. she brought in everything else they required for a visa, i also wrote her a lettter of invitation explaining that she would stay with me while she was here and that i would accompany her back to thailand in 4 months. she owns 2 condos, 1 house, 1 car and a motocycle in thailand. she also has savings amounting to 150,000 baht in her account now. she has held working permits for canada and the u.s. before.

i've contacted immigration here in canada and they infomed me that the only thing she can do is apply again. does anyone have any suggestions or comments about what we can do to convince them to let her come visit? any other documents i can send to her or that she can get there? would it help if she got a job but only ould have been working there for a couple days? would it be better if she sent her application to an embassy outside of thailand? i'm open to any suggestions.

[lopburi3]

The strongest ties are family and you have not mentioned anything along that line - except you - which is not good for confirming her intent to return to Thailand. If she is your fiancée she would not be expected to be a "tourist".

Property can be bought and sold so has little value without a job/family connection.

Am sure an application outside of Thailand will be viewed with even more suspicion than one here.

Time for marriage?

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The strongest ties are family and you have not mentioned anything along that line - except you - which is not good for confirming her intent to return to Thailand. If she is your fiancée she would not be expected to be a "tourist".

Property can be bought and sold so has little value without a job/family connection.

Am sure an application outside of Thailand will be viewed with even more suspicion than one here.

Time for marriage?

thanks lopburi3

i'm not sure if i know what you mean by family ties. do you mean to me or to her family? when she applied she she filled out the form which identified her immediate family members, which include one sister and her parents. (all live in bangkok) .her moher has her own shop which sells fruit and veg and her father is a police officer.

my parents have also been there to meet her parents this past christmas and stayed at their house. my parents are more than willing to do whatever they can to help. they have suggested writting a letter also. what do they need to say? is there any ohter documents they can provide that might help?

time for marriage is definately on my mind but how do i marry a girl who can not even come here to get married. the plan was for her to vist for here until about september then both of us would move to thailand. if everything is still peachy we will get married shortly after.

would me sending copies of emails and phone bills from the time i met her help? how about a letter form her parents? she can easily start working for her mother if it would help. any other suggestions?

[dr_Pat_Pong]

The strongest ties are family and you have not mentioned anything along that line - except you - which is not good for confirming her intent to return to Thailand. If she is your fiancée she would not be expected to be a "tourist".

Property can be bought and sold so has little value without a job/family connection.

Am sure an application outside of Thailand will be viewed with even more suspicion than one here.

Time for marriage?

thanks lopburi3

i'm not sure if i know what you mean by family ties. do you mean to me or to her family? when she applied she she filled out the form which identified her immediate family members, which include one sister and her parents. (all live in bangkok) .her moher has her own shop which sells fruit and veg and her father is a police officer.

my parents have also been there to meet her parents this past christmas and stayed at their house. my parents are more than willing to do whatever they can to help. they have suggested writting a letter also. what do they need to say? is there any ohter documents they can provide that might help?

time for marriage is definately on my mind but how do i marry a girl who can not even come here to get married. the plan was for her to vist for here until about september then both of us would move to thailand. if everything is still peachy we will get married shortly after.

would me sending copies of emails and phone bills from the time i met her help? how about a letter form her parents? she can easily start working for her mother if it would help. any other suggestions?

Supply her with every skerrick of support material you can, and this time ( if you are ready ) apply for a fiance visa. A letter of support from a Canadian MP will be a help too, as will those family letters. Good luck.

[lopburi3]

My family ties were to Thailand to indicate she would return. You seem to be providing the opposite. But for Canada it may not be as important as you don't seem to have a fiancée class of visa in Canada so you either get married and have her immigrate or she travels on her own. For the latter it seems to be a requirement to have employment proof from reading of your Embassy web site. Her family could probably be used for this financial purpose but suggest you read your web site and download documents and go through them. This is the site:

Canada Embassy Bangkok Visa Page

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i have read the requirements on the website and contacted them by telephone. it sounds like all they want is a letter from her employer to indicate that she will return. she has no problem finding a job and can start tomorrow but i'm sure immigration is going to look at the length of time she worked there and not be satisfied. i don't know any other ways of convincing them she will return. i've allready indicated in the lettter i wrote that i would accompany her back to thailand after her visit, apparently they don't belive me either. our plan is to open a business in thailand and live there. she really has no interest in staying in canada because she beleives thailand is the best place in the world to live, i agree. any other ideas on how to convince immigration that she intends to return?