I am planning to visit New Zealand during August 2011 for tourist purposes. My main purposes are to see a TriNations game between New Zealand vs Australia and also to see a couple of friends.
I am currently a Sri Lankan living in Japan working as a Software Engineer for a Japanese company. I earn a fairly good salary (> US$ 50,000/year), got sufficient funds to support myself during my stay in NZ, and I also have work commitments here in Japan until March 2012. So, on paper at least, I'm pretty confident that I should be able to obtain a visa.
However, I applied for a visitor visa to USA around October 2011 and was rejected. The reason given by the visa office was "I did not have good enough ties outside of United States" or in other words that they are not confident that I'd return.
Now, in the NZ visitor visa application there is a question asking whether I was refused any kind of visa to any other country before. I am wondering at the moment that whether will this be a disadvantage for me. And would it be possible for me to not state my visa rejection from USA?
I am currently a Sri Lankan living in Japan working as a Software Engineer for a Japanese company. I earn a fairly good salary (> US$ 50,000/year), got sufficient funds to support myself during my stay in NZ, and I also have work commitments here in Japan until March 2012. So, on paper at least, I'm pretty confident that I should be able to obtain a visa.
However, I applied for a visitor visa to USA around October 2011 and was rejected. The reason given by the visa office was "I did not have good enough ties outside of United States" or in other words that they are not confident that I'd return.
Now, in the NZ visitor visa application there is a question asking whether I was refused any kind of visa to any other country before. I am wondering at the moment that whether will this be a disadvantage for me. And would it be possible for me to not state my visa rejection from USA?
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