Hi everyone,
I'm new on this forum and I have a rather urgent matter
I and my husband were refused our application 3 days ago.
I'm very upset and really do not know what to do - to appeal(in the next 27 days) or to re-apply.
The officer who refused had 2 concerns:
1. that I was not in the country since I applied for sponsorship of my husband (I have pr status in Canada) - which is not true!! and I do believe this I can prove easily with additional letters from my family doctor for example.
2. that our relationship was not genuine. And here I have a problem, as we did not think of exchanging emails with my husband and only had a history of our calls in skype, which is apparently not enough. And during my visit of my future husband when we actually married we did not make many photos at all, like really a few, the reason being that we were married before and then divorced and now decided to reunite again. And we have an adult common child. So we did not think even that they won't believe us

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I am going to visit my husband and of course now we will make lots of photos together and we've started to exchange emails to show "the quality" of our relationship, also we will open a joint account.
But
we still cannot change the fact that there are no photos for the summer we got married and there are no emails/letters from before our marriage and shortly after.
So my questions:
- Can this lack of evidence from before become a reason for rejection if we reapply? Or new evidence should override all their suspicions?
- If we decide to reapply, what is the earliest date we can do this? Is there any waiting period after refusal letter?
- If we decide to appeal, can we gather new evidence and will it be taken into consideration, or will the case be decided based on what we provided in the first place
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!