Getting my Filipina GF into Canada

[Rubius]

I am a disabled man who is trying to get my girlfriend over to Canada to live with me and probably marry as well. We are in love and the distance apart is killing us. I am planning to buy her a ticket to come here to live with me but we are being told by some that she has too have money in her account in the Philippines in order to be approved for a visitor visa. Is this true? She doesn't have much money as she is 30 and finding work there at that age is extremely difficult. She has no debt and no criminal record and is completely healthy so I am not worried about those things but how do I make this happen as soon as possible. Please. Someone help me. I have been alone so long and searching for someone and now that I finally found her she is so far away and it seems like it is nearly impossible to get her here to be with me.

 

[zardoz]

I am a disabled man who is trying to get my girlfriend over to Canada to live with me and probably marry as well. We are in love and the distance apart is killing us. I am planning to buy her a ticket to come here to live with me but we are being told by some that she has too have money in her account in the Philippines in order to be approved for a visitor visa. Is this true? She doesn't have much money as she is 30 and finding work there at that age is extremely difficult. She has no debt and no criminal record and is completely healthy so I am not worried about those things but how do I make this happen as soon as possible. Please. Someone help me. I have been alone so long and searching for someone and now that I finally found her she is so far away and it seems like it is nearly impossible to get her here to be with me.

I think that you will find it very difficult to go forward with these plans based on a "visitor visa". You might be much better off considering the possibility of marrying her and then sponsoring her as a PR. However, you would need to do a serious "reality check" on your situation before going down that route.

 

[Rubius]

My disability is such that I can hardly leave my home, let alone my country. If I was able to do that I would certainly go that route.

 

[scylla]

She will need to demonstrate she has strong ties to her home country and no plans on remaining in Canada long term to be approved for a visitor visa. Ideally this means showing proof of employment, proof of funds, proof of past travel to countries requiring visas, proof of property owned. Her country does have quite a high rate of visitor visa refusals. So without at least a few of these types of proofs, I think you have an uphill battle to be approved. At a minimum she really should have a job and enough money in has bank account to pay for her visit to Canada. Good luck.

 

[scylla]

Just to add, she is not allowed to come to Canada to live on a visitors visa. She is only allowed to visit and you will need to satisfy immigration officers that this is in fact just a visit. One of the reasons refusal rates are so high is because too many people try to use the visit visa as a means of moving themselves to Canada permanently.