- Jun 7, 2013
- 3
- Category........
- Visa Office......
- Amman
- Job Offer........
- Pre-Assessed..
- App. Filed.......
- 24-03-2014
- AOR Received.
- 04-04-2014
- File Transfer...
- 11-04-2014
- Med's Done....
- 17-02-2014
- Passport Req..
- 03-11-2014
Hello! I'm new to this forum, and this is my first post - so forgive me if there are any repeated questions in here.
I am a naturalized Canadian citizen, living in Syria with my husband. We've been married for about a year and a half now.
I would like to visit Canada this summer, and I'd like my husband to have an opportunity to meet my family and friends (especially since noone can come here now..)
We applied for his TRV this week, with the following supporting documents:
- Letter from employer, including salary information
- Invitation letter from my father, including promise of financial responsibility for my husband
- Letter from the university, showing he is currently a student*
- Bank account information for me, showing we are financially able to support ourselves during our visit to Canada
- All of the paperwork to prove we are married
The TRV was rejected one day later, for the following reasons:
Your travel history
Your immigration status
Your family ties in Canada and in your country of residence
Length of proposed stay in Canada
Purpose of visit
and
Other:
Considering domestic instability in Syria that might induce you to remain in Canada and pull factors that could militate against your return to Syria, on balance you have not satisfied me you are a genuine temporary resident.
Ahhhh! So I called an agency here, to see if they can help us when we re-apply. The man from the agency said part of the problem with our application may have been that it wasn't ME who sent the invitation letter. I was under the impression that an invitation letter must be sent by someone who is CURRENTLY residing in Canada?
My husband does have travel history, and I think this might have been an issue. You see, we didn't know we had to attach the travel history form (the CIC website is SO CONFUSING) so we were scrambling to fill out the form the morning we submitted his paperwork. We went to a visa office place across the street, and a woman there filled out the form for us. My husband lived in the United States and Morocco for three years (each), because his father was a diplomat. The woman in the office said it was better not to put anything about former diplomatic ties, since they would likely question my husband a lot. So, she put 'visit'. I'm thinking maybe 3 years in the USA for a 'visit' might be suspicious...
Immigration status I don't understand, period.
From what I understand, family ties suggests he hasn't proved strong enough ties overall to his home country. My husband is the only son of the family, and his father is dead. This is a HUGE responsibility here in the Arab world, that basically prohibits him from ever leaving his family - and certainly not in a time of war. Is it worth it to try and explain this in a cover letter for re-application?
Also - he still has another year of university left, but unfortunately we can't get any document to prove this until he pays his fees.. in the fall. He's at the end of his fourth year now, and we did provide documentation for this. He's also exempt from military service (only son) so there's no chance he'll try and take advantage of being out of the country to dodge the army.
Length of proposed stay - we said 2 months. Is that too much?
Purpose of visit - why is meeting your wife's family not a suitable enough reason to want to visit Canada?
I am, like a lot of you on this forum, really annoying and frustrated. I feel like due to his nationality and the situation here, no amount of paperwork is going to be good enough for them to believe he'll return to Syria. Furthermore, I'm annoyed it hasn't been taken into consideration that I could EASILY apply for his PR if we had any inkling of wanting to live in Canada (and as far as I know, it's being expedited for spouses of Canadian citizens at the moment, to encourage them to leave the country). But we don't WANT to live in Canada, we really just want to visit and have my husband meet my grand-ma and my friends. Too much to ask?
:'(
I am a naturalized Canadian citizen, living in Syria with my husband. We've been married for about a year and a half now.
I would like to visit Canada this summer, and I'd like my husband to have an opportunity to meet my family and friends (especially since noone can come here now..)
We applied for his TRV this week, with the following supporting documents:
- Letter from employer, including salary information
- Invitation letter from my father, including promise of financial responsibility for my husband
- Letter from the university, showing he is currently a student*
- Bank account information for me, showing we are financially able to support ourselves during our visit to Canada
- All of the paperwork to prove we are married
The TRV was rejected one day later, for the following reasons:
Your travel history
Your immigration status
Your family ties in Canada and in your country of residence
Length of proposed stay in Canada
Purpose of visit
and
Other:
Considering domestic instability in Syria that might induce you to remain in Canada and pull factors that could militate against your return to Syria, on balance you have not satisfied me you are a genuine temporary resident.
Ahhhh! So I called an agency here, to see if they can help us when we re-apply. The man from the agency said part of the problem with our application may have been that it wasn't ME who sent the invitation letter. I was under the impression that an invitation letter must be sent by someone who is CURRENTLY residing in Canada?
My husband does have travel history, and I think this might have been an issue. You see, we didn't know we had to attach the travel history form (the CIC website is SO CONFUSING) so we were scrambling to fill out the form the morning we submitted his paperwork. We went to a visa office place across the street, and a woman there filled out the form for us. My husband lived in the United States and Morocco for three years (each), because his father was a diplomat. The woman in the office said it was better not to put anything about former diplomatic ties, since they would likely question my husband a lot. So, she put 'visit'. I'm thinking maybe 3 years in the USA for a 'visit' might be suspicious...
Immigration status I don't understand, period.
From what I understand, family ties suggests he hasn't proved strong enough ties overall to his home country. My husband is the only son of the family, and his father is dead. This is a HUGE responsibility here in the Arab world, that basically prohibits him from ever leaving his family - and certainly not in a time of war. Is it worth it to try and explain this in a cover letter for re-application?
Also - he still has another year of university left, but unfortunately we can't get any document to prove this until he pays his fees.. in the fall. He's at the end of his fourth year now, and we did provide documentation for this. He's also exempt from military service (only son) so there's no chance he'll try and take advantage of being out of the country to dodge the army.
Length of proposed stay - we said 2 months. Is that too much?
Purpose of visit - why is meeting your wife's family not a suitable enough reason to want to visit Canada?
I am, like a lot of you on this forum, really annoying and frustrated. I feel like due to his nationality and the situation here, no amount of paperwork is going to be good enough for them to believe he'll return to Syria. Furthermore, I'm annoyed it hasn't been taken into consideration that I could EASILY apply for his PR if we had any inkling of wanting to live in Canada (and as far as I know, it's being expedited for spouses of Canadian citizens at the moment, to encourage them to leave the country). But we don't WANT to live in Canada, we really just want to visit and have my husband meet my grand-ma and my friends. Too much to ask?
:'(