Quote: (04-11-2016 10:36 PM)Jack Of All Trades Wrote:
anyone brought a girl back from your homeland and have any interesting experiences? I speak the language, does that have any advantage in relations?
I assume you are Canadian, so am I. Let me copy & paste the post I made in the Justin Trudeau thread in the Politics forum:
"Back in 2013, when I tried to bring my Thai girl and her mother for a 1-month vacation in Canada, we applied for a visa.
Her parents' situation: Married for 30 years, 4 children, posess 3 houses, 4 cars, 2 startup businesses, and her mother works for the government since the last 25 years. They both had USD $200,000 in the bank.
Verdict: Denied, "you did not show enough proof of ties to your home country, therefore I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay".
I then called my bank and filed a chargeback for "fraud" to get my visa fees back, as this was clearly a fraud. And it got resolved in my favor.
If you are a Syrian refugee, or come from pretty much any Muslim country and come to Canada to make your own law, they let you in, and welcome you with baskets of gifts like they did to all Syrian refugees. Nothing easier.
At the same time, we applied for a visa to USA, since we wanted to go on a trip to New York. They asked for a couple of papers, but it got approved. So we flew to New York, spent a few days there. Then we drove to the border to seek admission anyway. They denied her, and stuck a 1-year exclusion order down her throat. When returning to USA from the border, we were followed by 2 US Border Patrol cars to make sure that there would be no smuggling attempt. I got pulled over and extensively questioned twice. She ultimately flew back to Thailand, and I drove back to Canada.
At the border, when re-entering Canada alone, I got searched and questioned for 4 hours. I had the RCMP car waiting for me there, and when I went on my way, the RCMP, along with 2 provincial police cars, followed me for 30 minutes to make sure that I wouldn't try to bring her in the country."
So in short, there are 4 ways to bring a girl into Canada:
1) Be married and request Permanent Resident status
2) Have a LOT of money (around CAD $100k) in the bank
3) Have a very good lawyer with internal connections with the embassy
4) Be a Muslim