Want to visit boyfriend

[RhettVoe 282]

the more she tries to be creative, the worse her chances of being admitted....and given her recent contact with CBP, her chances seem slim to none already.

[Rob L 3,811]

I cannot speak to their chances , only the assumptions made on this thread about the OP that don't speak stated facts

They a regular job with a pay stub and an intention to return to that work

They want to visit for a short time

There has been no statement that they have poor credit.

They don't have have a formal printed agreement for housing, but she does have a residence and an verbal agreement. If an agreement is drawn up between those parties, that is a rental agreement

They must have some ties, family or commitments that can be documented

Its not the reality check that I object to, just the assumption that we know facts that people who come here looking for help based on what we think we read between the lines.

[Rob L 3,811]

Sorry let me walk the part back about the credit... I missed the post , apologies

Edited August 20, 2014 by Rob L

[Hockeywife8 1]

Could my collectors licences be something to help show ties? I am licenced in every province.

[canadian_wife 1,822]

How does that show how you must return to Canada?

good luck

[Hockeywife8 1]

That's what I thought, was just throwing it out there as it is part of my employment. From the sounds of it unless I can produce a rental agreement I'm going to be out of luck

[MacUK 983]

That's what I thought, was just throwing it out there as it is part of my employment. From the sounds of it unless I can produce a rental agreement I'm going to be out of luck

A rental agreement isn't everything. Unfortunately there isn't any piece of paper in the world that could guarantee to a CBP officer or a CO that a person must return to their home country.

If there was such a bit of paper then everyone would get hold of it!

There's no magic rule to say wether or not you could get in. There's stories here on VJ of people with every reason to go home getting denied entry and stories of people who've broken all the rules and still being granted entry.

It all comes down to the decision of the CBP officer at the POE or the CO at an embassy when people apply for visas.

The last time I flew to the US before I overstayed I was pulled in to secondary questioning as I'd only left the US a few days earlier after a three month stay. I didn't know it at the time but the CBP officer who questioned me had every reason to put me straight back on the plane I came in on, he SHOULD have put me back on the plane. Knowing as much as I do now about how the system works I've no idea at all how he could have possibly let me through but he did.

Someone else on the same flight had less reason for denial in my mind (a pub fight 30 years earlier when he was a teenager that had resulted in an arrest) and had more ties to home than I did. There was no ESTA then to give him some warning that he'd have trouble and he had no idea that something so long ago would still cause him problems.

He was sent home, I was allowed through.

[Al422 221]

If your end goal is a K-1, which has a higher probability of success than a tourst visa, you don't want to make applications for a tourist visa that are likely to fail because they will count against you on the K-1. Just be patient and see the K-1 through to the end.

[MacUK 983]

If your end goal is a K-1, which has a higher probability of success than a tourst visa, you don't want to make applications for a tourist visa that are likely to fail because they will count against you on the K-1. Just be patient and see the K-1 through to the end.

Actually, as long as the denied tourist visas are merely denied because of immigrant intent then they'd have no bearing whatsoever on a K1.

If the tourist visas were likely to be denied for any other reasons, ie. overstays or criminal history then those issues would have an effect on the K1.

But that doesn't seem to be the case for the OP. All they will lose with a tourist visa application is the fee

[Hockeywife8 1]

So it turns out he may be up in the Buffalo area for a family thing within the next month. He is trying to get the time off work to go. It would be over the weekend and living in Toronto buffalo is so close! I'd take the via/amtrak maple leaf train. If I was going for 3 maybe 4 days if I got the Monday approved off with letter of employment, hotel booking, travel insurance and possibly a notarized letter from my roommate would that help me?

[canadian_wife 1,822]

So it turns out he may be up in the Buffalo area for a family thing within the next month. He is trying to get the time off work to go. It would be over the weekend and living in Toronto buffalo is so close! I'd take the via/amtrak maple leaf train. If I was going for 3 maybe 4 days if I got the Monday approved off with letter of employment, hotel booking, travel insurance and possibly a notarized letter from my roommate would that help me?

Notarized letter means nothing. Roommate is not a strong tie.

Good luck

[Anna Grant 169]

I was in a similar situation whilst going thru the K1 process - I was living with a friend as I had sold my apartment in preparation for moving to the US.

I was paying her rent, so we put together a rental agreement based on an online template which we both signed. I got a Rent Book from WH Smith and put in the payments into that book, which she signed. She also signed a letter saying that I had paid rent up until x date, she expected me back on y date and all my possessions were still in my room.

On my last 3 visits to the US, I was in this situation and I didn't have a job at all (I was made redundant). I just made a folder of all the stuff that proved that I had to go back to the UK and took that with me on each visit. I was never denied entry, so I didn't have that red flag on file. The only thing I was ever asked to produce was my return ticket.

BTW - I'm slightly confused about you situation, although I may have missed a post which explains it. The title of your thread says 'Want to visit boyfriend' but you said in your first post that you have separated from your husband. Are they the same person? Is he in Florida? Are you going thru any other visa process at all to join your husband permanently?

Edited August 29, 2014 by Anna Grant

[Hockeywife8 1]

Anna, husband is here in canada. I'm awaiting divorce papers from him. Boyfriend lives in Florida but has family up this way.

[RhettVoe 282]

what is a notarized letter from a friend or roommate supposed to prove about your reasons for returning? Having already overstayed, having already violated the trust given to Canadian citizens (ease of crossing our borders), why should our border folks be motivated to give you back this privilege based on a notarized letter from some random person, short term employment and a boyfriend living in the US?

[Hockeywife8 1]

Rhett I haven't overstayed. Ever. I was in the USA for two months on an open ended ticket. The officer told me to just be back before my passport expired. I tried to go back bc bf's grandmother had a heart attack and wanted to help support him and help look after his daughter. Petition was withdrawn, I wasn't told don't try to come back just things I'd need if I did