Canadianfirst said:
@ CanadaVietnam
I have a question for you. Your wife's girlfriend got refused. Do you know the reason why?
I support my wife in Vietnam and I have sent all the Bank transfer statements to Singapore. At the interview my wife will give them all the most recent statements including telephone bills etc. I am planning to be at the interview. My local MP suggested that this was a very good idea and recommended it. If the VO sees that the husband tock the trouble to be in Vietnam I think it is more difficult to refuse. I agree with you on this. I have no confidence in the process. Its no longer a bureaucratic process to ascertain whether the evidence provided is sufficient to confirm a genuine marriage. it has become a political one because of the witch hunt this government has put in place for fraudsters. I also don't see what relevance age difference has. My wife and I discussed this at the beginning of our relationship because I had concerns for the future. When I am 70 and she is 53. I spoke to my parents about this as well. Their comment was "worry that your wife doesn't die first" because there is no guarantee in life. However the VO suggested problems in the relationship because of age difference. What kind of problems did they mention or was it an open ended statement?. Personally I wouldn't know what kind of specific problems there could be resulting from age difference between couples. Marriage is difficult enough and requires commitment. I am young minded and my wife is very conservative. For now I try to live the moment. If one is healthy at 70 years old life goes on.
My wife's friend got refused VO said in refusal letter that VO detected "relationship not genuine" which was the case.
The friend who is very intelligent (she went to University here in Vietnam) could not convince with her "husband" the VO that they were genuine. By The way, her Husband took the plane from Vancouver to Vietnam just for the Interview. (So it does not mean that because that husband from Canada is there you are good). The friend did not use Translator since she speaks english fluently.
They practiced very hard all the possible questions, showed money transfers, all VISA stamps (perhaps 2 times he visited her in 2 1/2 years) and all the facebook logs + few extra photos ... but somehow VO was able to detect that relationship was not genuine (The friend's family paid $$$ to her husband to marry her in order to make her come to Canada) VO really impressed me to VO is able to detect that!
My wife's other friend got also refused but this time the relationship was genuine ... they have made appeal and won (I do not know much on how did their interview went? What I know is have used the Translator + they seems to answer correctly the questions from the Application do not know what went wrong).
@ I don't want to scare anyone going to the Interview since mine went positively and a lot of other members cases here went good. I know more PASS cases than refused cases!!! there is hope @ CanadianFirst, @ Dragoon and @ Taycaoco good luck for your interviews!! hope the interview will go well
