Hello Seniors and all members! Thanks to all the great work that you are doing on this forum. It really helped in me guiding my parents to do an online application for TRV from Pakistan.
However that being said, it got rejected with the email coming in today. I want to give it another shot at applying but would like some guidance on where they went wrong with their first attempt, so to be able to avoid that mistake this time.
The reasons ticked on the refusal letter were as follows:
- Travel history
- Not sure whether applicant is a bona fide tourist and will leave the country at the end of their visa
To give you some background, I am a PR holder in Canada while my parents and my grandmother had applied as a family from Pakistan. I have a younger sister too but she is married and lives with her in-laws so in my household it just my parents and my maternal grandmother. As mentioned earlier all three had applied under the main application. They wanted to visit for a little over a month in the summer, precisely 31 days.
The documents alongwith all the different forms that they attached with their application were as follows:
- Cover letter explaining why they want to visit
- Proof of finances consisting of 4 months salary slips for my father and mother, tax returns for last year for my father, 4 months bank statements for each of my parents (father's account holds 45K CAD, mother's holds 18K CAD), ownership documents of residence and a vehicle under my father's name. Letters from my parents' employers stating the dates which they want to travel for, their relationships with the employers (18 years and 20 years with them respectively) and their positions.
- Invitation letter from me, notarized from a notary public here in Toronto, along with my job letter and bank statement holding 24K CAD.
- Purpose of travel included flight itinerary, tentative plans for their stay along with costs (mostly focused around the weekends and not day-to-day admittedly), hotel booking for a weekend to be spent in Niagara and a car rental booking for the same weekend
- Birth certificates belong to me and my father proving my relation to my parents and my dads relation to my grandmother
- Marriage certificate of parents
- Travel history for the last ten years for all three during which my dad has been to Europe, Middle East and Far East Asia, mother has been to Middle East and Far East Asia and my grandmother has been to the Middle East).
- Passports with stamps of all visas and entry/exit markers on pages for all three, used in the last 10 years. Plus US B2 visas for my parents issues in March 2016, which they have not utilized at the moment.
I am just wondering how to go about doing it differently this time? My grandmother can perhaps opt out of the trip this time around but I definitely want my parents to come see me, as this would be the first time they visit me since I moved to Canada in 2015.
I welcome any suggestions and comments. Looking forward to your guidance.
However that being said, it got rejected with the email coming in today. I want to give it another shot at applying but would like some guidance on where they went wrong with their first attempt, so to be able to avoid that mistake this time.
The reasons ticked on the refusal letter were as follows:
- Travel history
- Not sure whether applicant is a bona fide tourist and will leave the country at the end of their visa
To give you some background, I am a PR holder in Canada while my parents and my grandmother had applied as a family from Pakistan. I have a younger sister too but she is married and lives with her in-laws so in my household it just my parents and my maternal grandmother. As mentioned earlier all three had applied under the main application. They wanted to visit for a little over a month in the summer, precisely 31 days.
The documents alongwith all the different forms that they attached with their application were as follows:
- Cover letter explaining why they want to visit
- Proof of finances consisting of 4 months salary slips for my father and mother, tax returns for last year for my father, 4 months bank statements for each of my parents (father's account holds 45K CAD, mother's holds 18K CAD), ownership documents of residence and a vehicle under my father's name. Letters from my parents' employers stating the dates which they want to travel for, their relationships with the employers (18 years and 20 years with them respectively) and their positions.
- Invitation letter from me, notarized from a notary public here in Toronto, along with my job letter and bank statement holding 24K CAD.
- Purpose of travel included flight itinerary, tentative plans for their stay along with costs (mostly focused around the weekends and not day-to-day admittedly), hotel booking for a weekend to be spent in Niagara and a car rental booking for the same weekend
- Birth certificates belong to me and my father proving my relation to my parents and my dads relation to my grandmother
- Marriage certificate of parents
- Travel history for the last ten years for all three during which my dad has been to Europe, Middle East and Far East Asia, mother has been to Middle East and Far East Asia and my grandmother has been to the Middle East).
- Passports with stamps of all visas and entry/exit markers on pages for all three, used in the last 10 years. Plus US B2 visas for my parents issues in March 2016, which they have not utilized at the moment.
I am just wondering how to go about doing it differently this time? My grandmother can perhaps opt out of the trip this time around but I definitely want my parents to come see me, as this would be the first time they visit me since I moved to Canada in 2015.
I welcome any suggestions and comments. Looking forward to your guidance.
