Tourist visa for my Thai wife - now I'm living in the US

[Norn]

I've read through alot of posts on here about the kinds of things that will be helpful in getting a Thai wife a tourist visa. I understand they want me to be living in thailand and have a work permit - otherwise they want to see her apply for an immigrant visa. Our situation is unique - I lived and worked in Thailand for 8 years and now i've come back to the states to work and save money for a few years. We are maintaining a long distance relationship and she simply wants to come here to visit me for a month or two.

She has held a good job in the tourism industry for 8 years strait and makes 30k baht per month. She has a few hundred thousand in the bank and a masters degree in education as well. Her company wrote her a letter saying she was allowed to take leave for 2 months and when they expected her back. My mother (who i live with) wrote a letter of invitation for her and sent all the appropriate documents needed. She just did her interview and they denied her. They gave her the standard denial paper that says she didn't provide enough evidence to show she would return to thailand.

My question is - does anyone know why she was denied here? Also is there anything she can do differently when re-applying? She plans to re-apply after a month or so, but I'm really at a loss for advise on how she could prove her case any more than she has already. I would love to hear from someone with first hand experience or knowledge on this.

Thanks in advance.

Norn

[Thanyaburi Mac]

I suspect that the interviewing consular officer figured that she would go to the U.S. and then apply for an Adjustment of Status to PRA, Permanent Resident Alien. People do this in order to beat the sometimes long queue for an Immigrant Visa.

Unless there's some really major change in her situation here, I'd expect another denial for a Tourist Visa.

Mac

[daboyz1]

Yes, Mac is correct. Your scenario is a major red flag for using a tourist visa to immigrate. You can thank all of the folks before her that came to the U.S. on a tourist visa with the intent to immigrate for her denial. Technically coming to the U.S. on a tourist visa with the intent to get married and adjust status is committing visa fraud. However, how can they prove "intent?"

[Gonsalviz]

She needs to own a fair amount of property.

[Gonsalviz]

Yes, Mac is correct. Your scenario is a major red flag for using a tourist visa to immigrate. You can thank all of the folks before her that came to the U.S. on a tourist visa with the intent to immigrate for her denial. Technically coming to the U.S. on a tourist visa with the intent to get married and adjust status is committing visa fraud. However, how can they prove "intent?"

They are already married.

[daboyz1]

Yes, Mac is correct. Your scenario is a major red flag for using a tourist visa to immigrate. You can thank all of the folks before her that came to the U.S. on a tourist visa with the intent to immigrate for her denial. Technically coming to the U.S. on a tourist visa with the intent to get married and adjust status is committing visa fraud. However, how can they prove "intent?"

They are already married.

Fixed. If the OP is not living in Thailand, there's almost no chance of her getting a tourist visa to the U.S. being married to a USC residing in the U.S.