Hello,
I have a girlfriend in Sydney. She tried to get a 6 month tourist visa but the Sydney Consulate denied it and told her they thought she would be coming over to get married. This was not our intention. She gets extended leave from work and we wanted to spend more time together, over the 90 days allowed by the visa waiver program. The Consulate then said she needed more proof of ties, so she went back with alot of documentation, letter from employer, mortgage, bank statements etc. The Consulate would not look at the documents and denied her visa immediately. The problem we face now is that she can not get a tourist visa and can not travel on the visa waiver program either. I-94W asks if you've ever been denied a visa.
Questions are:
Is there a way to remove the visa denial so she can once again use the visa waiver program?
Can her visa denials be appealed?
Would lodging a complaint about the denial do any good/harm and who would I do this with?
Thanks for you help. My girfriend is very distraught because she was a frequent traveller to the US and has now been effectively barred from our country for simply applying for a tourist visa.
I have a girlfriend in Sydney. She tried to get a 6 month tourist visa but the Sydney Consulate denied it and told her they thought she would be coming over to get married. This was not our intention. She gets extended leave from work and we wanted to spend more time together, over the 90 days allowed by the visa waiver program. The Consulate then said she needed more proof of ties, so she went back with alot of documentation, letter from employer, mortgage, bank statements etc. The Consulate would not look at the documents and denied her visa immediately. The problem we face now is that she can not get a tourist visa and can not travel on the visa waiver program either. I-94W asks if you've ever been denied a visa.
Questions are:
Is there a way to remove the visa denial so she can once again use the visa waiver program?
Can her visa denials be appealed?
Would lodging a complaint about the denial do any good/harm and who would I do this with?
Thanks for you help. My girfriend is very distraught because she was a frequent traveller to the US and has now been effectively barred from our country for simply applying for a tourist visa.