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All her family members attended who were local. She had no friends locally because we weren't in her home province. The wedding was also on short notice because we weren't sure the documents would be approved in time while I was there and the rest of her family lives far away in the province...

Yes, I missed the 20 photo limit, that makes sense. That should be easier to pick quality over quantity anyway. I noticed one of the questions on the form was have you been married 2 years, so that's a no. Will have to get letters from family members. Best to get letters from her family...

I have never thought about life insurance because I have a lot of assets and no debt. I am just recently married so I haven't even changed my will yet. I'll look into life insurance and other things. The wedding was a civil ceremony at the municipal hall so it cost almost nothing and we just...

Hello everyone. I'm a Canadian citizen 48 yrs old living in Canada. My wife is a Filipina living in Philippines 31 yrs old. We were married Dec 15th 2017. We met online in May 2017 and I first visited her on her birthday in Taiwan where she was working on June 13th 2017. We had applied...

I don't know the answer but I also would be interested in finding out more about this. Maybe my post will trigger some responses or have you found out anything more about this since you posted?

For anyone who's curious, these seem to be the stats for total applications for TRV first then approved applications second for Philippines and a couple of other countries. So it appears that between 18-30 percent of the applications are accepted in the past few years for Philippines and India...

Thanks for the information.

I haven't found what I'm looking for yet. They seem to only list "output" which includes passed, failed, withdrawn all together, but I did find stats on study permits. For the past few years they're failing more applications than they're passing for Philippines. It used to be the other way...

Fair enough, I was just feeling some here have quite a positive bias towards this government system that I don't have so I thought maybe there were ties to government. I don't mind hard messages but I do want factual messages. Some information provided here is somewhat vague and the whole...

Oh, I misunderstood. I thought by challenging you meant there was less proof or more applications in a short time period. So many variables and variations in so many things it's probably hard to find very close applications. Regarding their 3 applications in a short time. Where is the...

The weather slows them down more than anything. The influx was due to our prime minister inviting the world in so Canadian officials have been trying to get the word out that not everyone be accepted with open arms. I do feel sorry for the two men last year who crossed in the winter and lost...

I clicked on the link but how is that more challenging than my girl's situation. That girl is working 5 yrs at her job. Has investments. My girl has neither and they only applied 2 times. Do you think it's better to dump the business or the job because you originally said it didn't seem...

Okay, just checking. I didn't think you worked for IRCC but maybe some other branch of the government.:) Funny comment, but I'm sure you know there was one particular point that 90% or more of the people were going through and still are. They have a tent city and heated trailers set up there...

My point was $100 for electronically submitted means almost no labour costs until someone has to look at the application. If they can process a TRV in 1 hr there should be a profit but of course we're talking about government so it's not always the most efficient. I was specifically talking...

Other countries such as Japan and Korea don't charge for their short term visa applications so if Canada isn't making money they're losing less money than those countries. I understand the situation and the possible reasons the government has for they way they do this I just disagree with them...

Thanks for your opinion. We'll have to agree to disagree about the government. Do you work for them? A government help line caused me to make more mistakes than I would on my own. They could enforce the border and let people go through proper channels like everyone else. I understand...

I fully understand why the application appears weak I just disagree with the screening process. It's a twisted system where people learn the rules from trial and error and pass information along to others to provide what the visa officers want to see. The last application she had a job...

I know it's not the same. I was just giving it as an example of how the government seems not to care about one group to favour another. People cross the border illegally from the USA and get treated better than a law abiding, tax paying citizens girlfriend. Sure some people may travel here...

I work in IT and I did search for forums and I found other ones which were useless so I suppose I could have searched harder and stumbled across this one but I really didn't think it would be this difficult. It would be similar to researching how to do anything you think should be simple only...

Thanks for your advice. They shouldn't answer questions at all if they provide false or misleading information. I posted a summary earlier in this thread for when I did submissions. When she got 10 times the money in her bank and her business license I submitted. When she got her business...