I'm a 16 year male old high school student from Malaysia, planning to visit my friends in Vancouver and Seattle in Dec/Jan 2013. I will be travelling alone as my parents need to work, and they both have full time jobs and several accounts with a total of 70k> CAD and two properties. I applied for a US visa a week before sending my Canadian application and was approved, getting a 10 year multiple entry.
As the visa office in Kuala Lumpur is closed, I sent my application to the Singapore office on 22 May which was received by the office 5 days later. After two weeks I didn't hear from them, so I sent them an email.
The next day they replied saying they'll send the decision letter by mail but they can't tell you by email (seriously?). I was actually rather confident of getting my single entry TRV approved, though I was devastated when I opened the letter and saw the words "Do not meet the requirements....". To rub salt on the wound, they included a receipt stating they've cashed in on my CAD75 bank draft.
They listed "Purpose of travel" and "Do not have enough assets to sustain yourself blah blah" as the two reasons.
I included my parents' bank account statements, a copy of my entire passport (which clearly shows my stamps from Australia, Korea, Turkey, Thailand, Singapore, Japan - and a Japanese and US visa) and my mom's 5 year Canadian visa in case she decides to tag along, and air ticket which shows Business Class (mileage redemption).
I'm puzzled as to why I could be refused a visa, and I definitely intend to reapply. Who's going to illegally hire a 16 year old?! It's freezing there and I'm not sure what convinces them that I'll never leave Canada, especially since my parents will still be in Malaysia. If the Americans can trust me, why can't the Canadians?
Any idea on what else I should include on my next application? Invitation letter? Some document that states my parents actually own houses? Or is it just my luck that I got a VO who happened to be in a bad mood?
As the visa office in Kuala Lumpur is closed, I sent my application to the Singapore office on 22 May which was received by the office 5 days later. After two weeks I didn't hear from them, so I sent them an email.
The next day they replied saying they'll send the decision letter by mail but they can't tell you by email (seriously?). I was actually rather confident of getting my single entry TRV approved, though I was devastated when I opened the letter and saw the words "Do not meet the requirements....". To rub salt on the wound, they included a receipt stating they've cashed in on my CAD75 bank draft.
They listed "Purpose of travel" and "Do not have enough assets to sustain yourself blah blah" as the two reasons.
I included my parents' bank account statements, a copy of my entire passport (which clearly shows my stamps from Australia, Korea, Turkey, Thailand, Singapore, Japan - and a Japanese and US visa) and my mom's 5 year Canadian visa in case she decides to tag along, and air ticket which shows Business Class (mileage redemption).
I'm puzzled as to why I could be refused a visa, and I definitely intend to reapply. Who's going to illegally hire a 16 year old?! It's freezing there and I'm not sure what convinces them that I'll never leave Canada, especially since my parents will still be in Malaysia. If the Americans can trust me, why can't the Canadians?
Any idea on what else I should include on my next application? Invitation letter? Some document that states my parents actually own houses? Or is it just my luck that I got a VO who happened to be in a bad mood?
