Tourist Visa for my girlfriend second time, need you help and advice

[yeliu]

Guys,
I need your great advice and help for my girlfriend tourist visa application for the second time.
My info: I am a international student in Canada doing master at UBC, Vancouver
My girlfriend: Working in Singapore now as a foreign worker
Citizenship: Chinese for both of us
Last year around sometime in October, we applied the tourist visa to plan a visit to Canada for my girlfriend. Last year, my girlfriend is still a international student at NUS, Singapore. We provided a lot of materials to prove that she will return to Singapore to continue study. For example, she provide her status letter of NUS, 20k Canadian dollars bank statement, rental contract etc. From my side, I provide my enrolment letter, rental contract, student card and bank statement. Besides that, I provide a invitation letter to state our purpose to get together to celebrate the Christmas. For the proof of relationship, we provide enough photos showing we are together for more than four years before we go to different countries to do our master. But unfortunately, we got the refusal letter 2 days after the application submission. So I chose to visit her in Singapore in December last year.
One year just passed, I visit her again in Singapore right now. And we decide to re-apply again this time so that she can visit my sometime around May/June (tentative). Could you please give me some more advice regarding this second application. Thanks very much! Merry Christmas!

 

[Meya06]

Hi,
I feel sorry to hear your girlfriend's visa refusal for the first time. Currently, Canada seems to be Recession and the government focus on Refugees application. I noticed that most of the people here in this forum were upset their applications such as tourist visa, study visa, super visa even though pr application, it may related to the officer to Make decisions. According your situation, I think that your proof of her financial and proof of her study aren't sufficient to the officer immigration, I would suggest that deposit more money and update bank statements and find some more evidence that she will return to Singapore after vacation purpose. Moreover, try to write down the letter of explanation more politely and reliability.

I wish this time she will achieve her goal to obtain a visa.

All the best and Merry Christmas

 

[yeliu]

Thanks for your detailed advice. Right now, my girlfriend is working in Singapore.
I just went through the eligibility tool on CIC website, and found that we need to provide the proof of relationship which makes me confused and lost. Last time we provide photos for that, but I don't know what to do this time.

Hi,
I feel sorry to hear your girlfriend's visa refusal for the first time. Currently, Canada seems to be Recession and the government focus on Refugees application. I noticed that most of the people here in this forum were upset their applications such as tourist visa, study visa, super visa even though pr application, it may related to the officer to Make decisions. According your situation, I think that your proof of her financial and proof of her study aren't sufficient to the officer immigration, I would suggest that deposit more money and update bank statements and find some more evidence that she will return to Singapore after vacation purpose. Moreover, try to write down the letter of explanation more politely and reliability.

I wish this time she will achieve her goal to obtain a visa.

All the best and Merry Christmas

 

[boshetunmai]

I don't believe it is necessary to show proof of your relationship for a visitor visa application. Are you sure you haven't confused it with the spousal PR application? If anything, I would think that proof of relationship would actually hurt a TRV application more than help, because it doesn't prove her ties to her home country. It may even give them a reason to think she might stay in Canada to be with you instead of returning home. It's frustrating, but it can be really tough for a young, unmarried person to get a TRV (depends on your country of origin too). My husband (before we were married) was denied a TRV 4 times despite adequate documentation.

Most important tip I would give you is to focus strongly on the things that prove HER ties to her home country. Strong proof that she will leave Canada at the end of her stay is probably the most significant factor in getting a TRV.