Going To Canada?

[reffa]

Can anyone please let me know if this will be enough for my boyfriend of 1 year to join me and my cousin on our trip home for Christmas.

Document Checklist

Boyfriend(Thai Citizen)

• Tourist Visa Application
  
• Additional Family Information Form
  
• Thai passport (issued this year)
  
• Birth Certificate
  
• Thai Identification Card
  
• Doctor’s note stating good health to travel
  
• Letter from employer/mother stating: (he works at his mothers restaurant)
  

· Employment status

· Income

· Length of employment

· Position and duties

· Leave of absence

• Letter from Family member: Pee Puu (Thai & English)
  • Support his trip (will work with mother until he comes back in 3 months)
    
  • Expected return date
    

  [*]Ownership papers of vehicle (motorcycle)

  [*]Identification card and birth certificates of family members

  [*]Health Insurance Coverage

  [*]Itinerary of what travel plans are and approximate dates.

  [*]Flight details (have reference number and tims and flight numbers, but didn't pay yet)

  [*]Letter from community member: Nowwow (Thai & English)

  • Knows both Sontaya and I
    
  • Knows family business well
    
  • Expected return date
    
  • Copy of Identification card
    

  [*]Proof of funds

  • Copy of Krungthai Bank from 2551
    
  • Copy of Kasikorn Bank from this year (spending money account) *** possible problem, opened account less than 6 months ago
    
  • Copy of Restaurant/Mother's Krungthai bankbook to show where salary is deposited.
    
  • Copy of joint Kasikorn Bank account between my boyfriend and I *** opened less than 6 months ago too
    
  • Copy of Reffa’s Kasikorn Bankbook *** under 30,000 baht
    
  • Print out of Reffa’s Credit Cards for back-up funds *** over 450,000 baht but not ideal
    
  • Print out of cousin Jessica’s Canadian RBC account balance ***
    
  • Reta and Dave’s bank account’s for guarantee. (aunt and uncle willing to sponsor his trip)
    

  [*]Letter of Invitation from Canada

  • Cover Letter with guarantee
    

Where he will be staying

Will help pay for any needs

Food/Flights/Tourism Activities will be funded

o Copy of Passports (x2)

o Copy of Birth Certificates (x2)

o Business cards to show proper business

• Proposed Itinerary
  
• Pictures (place of work/residence, with family, with reffa, of motorbike, monkhood)
  

Reffa’s Documents

• Passport/Birth Certificate
  
• Renters contract (Jessica & Reffa)
  
• Letter stating residence from Immigration
  
• Teaching Qualifications (TEFL, Thai Culture Course)
  
• Proof of employment in Thailand (pay sheets and work schedule) *** No work permit and was unable to get a letter saying leave of absense because i left the job since they didn't provide me with a work permit.
  
• Pictures
  • At place of work with students and director
    
  • With Sontaya’s family
    
  • Involved in Thai culture (giving alms to monks, loy kratong)
    
  • Showing relationship with Sontaya
    
  • Recent passport picture within last month
    

  [*]Bank contract (joint bank account)

  [*]Copy of Kasikorn Bankbook

  [*]Print-out of Credit balances (Canadian accounts)

  [*]Letter outlining relationship with Sontaya’s family and our plans for the trip

  [*]Criminal record check from Canada

  [*]Picture of my parents (who Sontaya will spend some time with during Christmas)

Jessica’s documents

1. Passport/ID card/Birth Certificate

2. Teaching qualifications

3. Copy of Bank statement (RBC Canadian and K Thai banks)

4. Proof of employment in Thailand (pay sheets and work schedule)

5. Criminal record check from Canada

6. Picture of my parents

7. Letter outlining relationship with Sontaya and plans for Canada

8. pictures

§ Myself with Reffa and Sontaya

§ My involvement within schools

Involvment in Thai culture

A few obstacles such as my lack of Work permit and only one good reason for him to return to Thailand.

Any Advice? We need to go to Bangkok within the next few days.

Thanks so much everyone :)

Reffa

[meme]

My Thai husband (who was my bf at the time) received his first TRV to Canada after his interview 3 years ago. It sounds like you are as prepared as we were. the interviewer basically said that everything that we had provided was not a guarantee that he would return as soon as he sat down for the interview(which I am sure was a scare tactic). She interviewed him for an hour and at the end said she was going to believe him and give him the visa and if he returned when he was supposed to, every TRV after that would be easy to get. Sure enough he has received 4 TRVs in total. The interviewer asked him if he wanted to live in Canada, he said no, (which was the truth) b/c he didnt want to leave his family, food etc. She asked him if he wanted to marry me, he said he wasn't sure (which was kind of a lie) and that he needed to meet my family etc first. He had no land, a modest job that paid him in cash, a bank account less than 6 months old and we didnt include a medical, although we did include a police check, neither of which are required for a TRV. We gave them a 30 page binder full of pictures, documents a letter from the head of his village stateing that his mother was dependent on him and the rest of the documents you have included. I think the reason he got it was for 3 reasons. I was also a teacher and had a contract that said I was returning to Thailand to start my job, he was in school as well getting his M6 at an adult education school, and his interview. Regardless of all the other documents we had I believe these three things are why he got it. But its good you included everything you did. In fact, after his first TRV all they took from our applications after that was the letter from both our employers and the letter from his school. He never had an interview after the first one. The interviewer also happened to be an older Thai women and that also helped in his favour.

Good luck and feel free to PM me.