Tourist Visa Refusal - How to Reapply? What is the Issue?

[scylla]

Thanks a lot everyone, this is helpful.

Last question here - if there was a mistake or something not clear regarding his travel history would they have requested for clarification or additional documents or would they have just rejected and not listed that as a reason? I was going through the documetns again and maybe it was not clear to the officer that he always complied with travel visa stays given the way I outlined his history very vaguely - worth a try?

There was no mistake based on the info you've provided. The travel history refusal reason refers to the fact that he has never visited countries such as the US, UK, etc. where there are more stringent processes for obtaining visas. We see this refusal reason here all of the time for that reason. His travel to countries in the Asia region doesn't count unfortunately. If he has in fact travelled to one of these countries and this was missed or not highlighted in the application - then absolutely do that when you reapply. Otherwise, there's really nothing you can do to address the travel history refusal reason. You would instead want to focus on showing strong ties to his country of residence to counter balance this.

 

[Jets13]

What other avenues are you referring to? I had my parents send an invitation family sponsorship letter. Is there another way?

Hi sorry I was not clear, by other avenues I meant more permanent sponsorship. In that way most of the rights you have to enter as a Canadian can be inferred on to your spouse. The letter of sponsorship from your parents is really just an invitation letter, if push came to shove it cannot be legally enforced. This is more of a permanent solution so there's other factors that play into it like residency requirement etc.....so if this is not the solution all you can do is try for a trv and hope you get approved. Here is a link to spousal sponsorship.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/family-sponsorship/spouse-partner-children.html

I think others have already answered, they do not have concerns about where your spouse travelled or what they did there.....instead by travel history they mean they want to see travel to countries like usa uk Canada aus etc...it is a bit of a catch 22 because they wont give you a visa to travel but expect you to have travel history …..how can you get that travel history if they wont let you travel?!

 

[mpotocar86]

Hi sorry I was not clear, by other avenues I meant more permanent sponsorship. In that way most of the rights you have to enter as a Canadian can be inferred on to your spouse. The letter of sponsorship from your parents is really just an invitation letter, if push came to shove it cannot be legally enforced. This is more of a permanent solution so there's other factors that play into it like residency requirement etc.....so if this is not the solution all you can do is try for a trv and hope you get approved. Here is a link to spousal sponsorship.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/family-sponsorship/spouse-partner-children.html

I think others have already answered, they do not have concerns about where your spouse travelled or what they did there.....instead by travel history they mean they want to see travel to countries like usa uk Canada aus etc...it is a bit of a catch 22 because they wont give you a visa to travel but expect you to have travel history …..how can you get that travel history if they wont let you travel?!

Thanks a lot for this, its very helpful. Sorry for all these questions but im trying to make it all make sense in my mind. So for example, if I do choose to reapply and say I address 2 out of the 3 points, they could simply reject again and state "travel history" as the only primary reason on a 2nd try? Have people that NEVER travelled to those countries before get approved?

 

[Jets13]

Thanks a lot for this, its very helpful. Sorry for all these questions but im trying to make it all make sense in my mind. So for example, if I do choose to reapply and say I address 2 out of the 3 points, they could simply reject again and state "travel history" as the only primary reason on a 2nd try? Have people that NEVER travelled to those countries before get approved?

People do get approved that have no travel history. They just need to make sure other areas of their file are stronger.