- May 5, 2016
- 35
- 1
- Category........
- Visa Office......
- Manila
- Job Offer........
- Pre-Assessed..
- App. Filed.......
- 27-01-2017
- AOR Received.
- AO1 15-02-2017, AOR2 27-02-2017
I live in Quebec, and on February of this year, me and my Filipina wife got married in her country. We have known each other since June of last year, and decided to get married after we fell very hard for each other and wanted to eventually live together. I went to visit her a few times, we went through the necessary red tape so we could arrange a marriage ceremony, and we went through with it. I am sure that you can never truly *know* someone, but as far as I can tell her love for me is genuine, she comes from a very good family, and she is just as enthusiastic as I about starting this next phase of our life in the future.
I am a bit nervous about it, but I am looking into beginning my research and planning in order to start a sponsorship process. We are both relatively young and of similar age. I am in my mid thirties, and she is in her mid to late twenties. Both she and I were never married before our marriage together, and we have no children.
By looking at this forum, I learned that it seems to be a very bad idea to attempt to apply for a tourist visa for her. She doesn't have assets like a house or a lot of money in her bank account. It sounds like she would almost certainly be denied.
Well, any advice, things to look our for, general pointers, etc... would be very welcome. I do not really have significant assets or much money in my bank account (I lived very selfishly before meeting her), but I have a good and stable job with a good salary. I also live in a cheap apartment and have no mortgage or car loan to pay, so if I want to, my day to day expenses can be very low. So I definitely have more than enough headroom to take good care of her financially.
I did keep all the history of our IM conversations together through Skype, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. When I visited the Philippines, I also met many of her family members, and made sure to have photographs of us taken together every time. We visited various towns like Cebu and Davao and had pictures taken of us in front of famous landmarks whenever it was possible. We had our honeymoon in there after we were married, and we spent it mostly in Palawan. So again, I had many pictures taken of us doing activities, etc (for instance in the Underground River).
She already has some family who lives in Canada, an uncle and two cousins, but they live in Alberta. This uncle by sheer coincidence was taking a vacation in her city in the Philippines when it happened, so he was able to attend the ceremony and he appears on our pictures.
We had a beautiful and memorable reception and hired a photographer who ended up giving us a wonderful picture book, which I have no doubt will be a good asset for us to use in the application. We were also photographed with the mayor of her hometown, who was the one directing the marriage ceremony. The mayor was also invited and came to our reception later. Overall we had about 125 guests.
I of course kept copies and originals of all my plane tickets, receipts, our marriage contract, the CENOMAR which I signed with the Canadian embassy, etc... and through all our encounters, vacations, and the marriage ceremony, she posted status updates on her Facebook which were seen , liked and commented on by all her friends and family members. So I suppose I could include screenshots of these status updates as well.
As I said, any and all help would be very appreciated.
Right now, while we are evaluating how we will approach the situation, she is looking for a new job, and taking French lessons (if we live in Quebec, this will definitely be beyond essential).
I am a bit nervous about it, but I am looking into beginning my research and planning in order to start a sponsorship process. We are both relatively young and of similar age. I am in my mid thirties, and she is in her mid to late twenties. Both she and I were never married before our marriage together, and we have no children.
By looking at this forum, I learned that it seems to be a very bad idea to attempt to apply for a tourist visa for her. She doesn't have assets like a house or a lot of money in her bank account. It sounds like she would almost certainly be denied.
Well, any advice, things to look our for, general pointers, etc... would be very welcome. I do not really have significant assets or much money in my bank account (I lived very selfishly before meeting her), but I have a good and stable job with a good salary. I also live in a cheap apartment and have no mortgage or car loan to pay, so if I want to, my day to day expenses can be very low. So I definitely have more than enough headroom to take good care of her financially.
I did keep all the history of our IM conversations together through Skype, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. When I visited the Philippines, I also met many of her family members, and made sure to have photographs of us taken together every time. We visited various towns like Cebu and Davao and had pictures taken of us in front of famous landmarks whenever it was possible. We had our honeymoon in there after we were married, and we spent it mostly in Palawan. So again, I had many pictures taken of us doing activities, etc (for instance in the Underground River).
She already has some family who lives in Canada, an uncle and two cousins, but they live in Alberta. This uncle by sheer coincidence was taking a vacation in her city in the Philippines when it happened, so he was able to attend the ceremony and he appears on our pictures.
We had a beautiful and memorable reception and hired a photographer who ended up giving us a wonderful picture book, which I have no doubt will be a good asset for us to use in the application. We were also photographed with the mayor of her hometown, who was the one directing the marriage ceremony. The mayor was also invited and came to our reception later. Overall we had about 125 guests.
I of course kept copies and originals of all my plane tickets, receipts, our marriage contract, the CENOMAR which I signed with the Canadian embassy, etc... and through all our encounters, vacations, and the marriage ceremony, she posted status updates on her Facebook which were seen , liked and commented on by all her friends and family members. So I suppose I could include screenshots of these status updates as well.
As I said, any and all help would be very appreciated.
Right now, while we are evaluating how we will approach the situation, she is looking for a new job, and taking French lessons (if we live in Quebec, this will definitely be beyond essential).
