PLEASE ADVICE - VISA DENIED.

[star1live]

My junior sister is a Canadian but mistakingly had a child out of wedlock as a teenager.
Recently, she traveled Home in Africa for Holiday and fell in love with a guy and they got married. This happend under one month of her Holidays.
And on returning back to Canada, she summitted application to sponsor her new husband to come over to Canada. In summary, her husband was refused visa to come over to Canada to join her new brand new wife.
Reasons that she did not stay in her home country long enough to prove that said marriage is genuine.
The second reason was that she should bring a divorce letter from her previous boy friend/relationship which was not legal. At her teenage, she mistakingly had a baby with her boy friend and they were not legally married to warrant divorce. So I don't understand why cic should be demanding for a divorce paper when there was nothing like marriage.
Please advice us on the way forward. Can we appeal in this circumstance?
Thanks for your prompt reply as usual.
Star1live.

 

[kelKel]

If in fact this is a true story I can tell you the reponses you may get to this query will not be at all positive.

 

[RobsLuv]

I don't see why the responses should be negative - your sister, as the sponsor, has the right to appeal a refusal of her application to sponsor her husband. They don't believe the marriage is genuine . . . at the appeal she will have to prove that it is and, if she can, they will overturn the refusal and reprocess the application. Depending on her Province, though, it could take a year or more to get her appeal hearing, and then reprocessing comes after that. It could be awhile before they're reunited.

 

[kelKel]

Robsluv she definitely has the right to an appeal. I would imagine that proving to the CIC that the marriage wasn't entered into for immigration would be hard when she fell in love and married in under one months time. This is completely possible but will the CIC see it the same way? Thats all I was saying.