Why was my wife's US visitor visa application denied despite strong documentation?

@Add *****

because there is already a visa process for Americans to bring their spouse to America with a marriage visa. It requires a lot of documentation and takes 12-16 months to process.

They consider a tourist visa application a way to get around that process and expect the wife to arrive in America and never leave.

@Cris *****

Sorry to hear that. I wanted my brother to visit me in the U.S. long time ago and his visa was denied too. It puzzled me when he used to visit me once in the U.S. Now, he said that he’d rather spend money in the other countries. I personally don’t think that they should deny her visa. That’s very disappointing.

@Alan *******

It was one dude... Gang member, years on a watch list... long criminal record... Rouge judge gave him coverage ( protected status)

@Perry ******

then explain this 211

@Perry ******

🤦‍♀️ k

@Ashley *******

She was working in exchange for accommodations, in violation of her tourist visa. She was also denied entrance in to Canada at one point in her trip. Clearly more to the story than what she and her family are sharing.

@Ashley *******

this just isn't true. You sound some sort if desperate.

@Ashley *******

according to ICE she was in "violation of the terms and conditions of her admission to the U.S.A". If you violate then you are detained.

Making it sound like masses of innocent people are getting detained while having proper documentation is misleading and just not true.

@Mark *******

every house sitter in the USA is breaking the law which is tenuous at best and free accomodation would need to be tested in court. However as i say immigration don't test anything anywhere. They just decide....

@Mark *******

that's not true....she was not told. That was a guess in the article.

@Ashley *******

evidence please to convince me that it's not true.

its literally in the article and reported by the actual agency involved...did you read it? did you look it up on another source. Can you provide evidence your not just a troll.

@Marcus ***********

you didn't provide evidence. Try again with names, dates, charges. If you can't you should delete your post as fake information

@Cris *****

I've been told that the UK looks upon favourably Singapore, Hong Kong and, surprisingly, Vietnam travel. My wife has an essentially criminal record for overstay in Malaysia, but, least last year, for the UK, that wasn't any issue. We ignored the UK lawyers who told us to lie about the past.

@Jerry *******

go back to last year on this group. You'll see the same stories. People that have houses, businesses, jobs, and lots of money and ties to Thailand get denied over and over. It's nothing new. There's been no changes made to legal immigration so far. There might be in the future. I'm not defending trump. I didn't vote for him. And he's done many things I don't agree with. But he's not messed with legal immigration.

@James ***********

prior to his first year is when things weren't difficult. After his first term everything became difficult and hasn't changed because they didn't have the vote backing & what ever excuse they gave. I agree, it's been very difficult the past 8 years. I worked around the world and many others in it came from India and china parrot what I'm saying. It was part of my job to know this. But if you've done more travel than I over the past 10 years then teach me something. I'm speaking from real experience not what others wrote.

Have a great day.

@Jerry *******

I've tried to get someone a visa. Had everything needed, land, bank accounts, job, references. Everything. Denied 2 times. So, I'm also speaking from experiences.

And eventually may try again, after I open a business, and buy some land.

@David *******

we haven't had a good president in a long time. Every election they go further apart. More extreme left and right. Takes an especially low IQ to think either side is good.

@David *******

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Joe Biden averaged 42.2% job approval during his four years as president, the second lowest in Gallup polling history. Extreme political party differences characterized Biden’s job approval, as has increasingly been the case for presidents. Biden’s final job approval rating from a new Jan. 2-15 Gallup poll is 40%, which ranks toward the middle of final ratings for recent presidents.

@David *******

and Biden spent 4 years blaming trump. 🙄 well. When he could put a sentence together. Biden was a horrible president. And either Trump will end up being a great one, or fail miserably.

@James ***********

Biden threw occasional barbs at Trump, he did not have a vindictive personality disorder that attacks people with nearly every breath. Trump speeches are filled with negativity, listen sometime. We disagree about Biden's effectiveness, he inherited a mismanaged pandemic, and an economic disaster. The pandemic became a non-issue and the country was in a better place, economically speaking. That has all been undone in the last 2.5 months.

Trump will end up failing the American people. The country will pay for it, financially and reputationally, for decades.

@David *******

the pandemic was always a non issue. Biden failed the country already. Just like trump did, Obama, bush Jr. Last successful president was Clinton

@James ***********

we have different definitions of “failed”. I would agree on some of your list, not all. Many peoples views and opinions on success or failure are jaded by the media they consume. Fox News started in 1996, during the Clinton years. Since the beginning, they have been a source of conservatively biased opinion masquerading as news, with a healthy dose of lies and disinformation mixed in. Whatever benefits the conservative cause is fair game with them. They now primarily exist as the media arm of the Republican party. There are many people on the right who have listened to their toxic IV drip of faux outrage, night after night, for 25+ years. Few people could withstand being influenced by such “programming”. If you don’t believe me, try listening objectively to any of the Fox primetime talking heads. It’s not news, it’s opinion with a divisive attitude and void of facts. The same exists on the left, but less so. It’s no wonder things are so divided. I’m not sure of the solution, but it’s probably going to be extreme. 

@David *******

you think ABC, NBC, CNN and such give truthful news? If you do, you should seek help. They all program people to think what they want. Personally, I don't watch any of it. Because it's all tailored to make you hate the other side, and believe you're on the right side. I watched about 2 hours of news in 2024. And that was all election night. And switched back and forth between fox and NBC, ABC.

@James ***********

if your smart you can pick out the facts ant any leaning outlet. And fact checking helps. But your right only the one YOU get your information is correct. Lol

@James ***********

please read, I said the situation exists on the left as well. I didn't speak to any other network specifically. Yes, they all have faults.

@Dave *********

Dave I've been to 48 states and America has some amazing sites and amazing people, great weed here too

@Chance *******

i was just in Italy, Paris and Switzerland. Had great conversations about the destruction of freedoms and mass immigration into Germany, France and Italy, with many nationals from said countries. What's happened here has happened there but we stood up and fought. I wouldn't worry, America is fighting corrupt tenured politicians he'll bent to destroy our country.

@Rob *******

I think you watch to much fake Fox news rotflmao. There was no one taking advantage of us. He is the one that made the trade deals with Canada that he said were horrible. The economy had to be fixed from his last stay in the Whitehouse which is what Biden did. There are no gender transformation studies for grades 3-4. Republicans shot down their own bill that had bipartisan support for immigration under Biden. Basically everything you are putting out there is a lie.

@Rob *******

America isn't a shit hole, parts of it have turned into shit holes because of corrupt government officials that would love to destroy our country.

Rob Moyersy, I agree in principle to your other points about immigration, gender studies crap and wastful spending but you don't regain control of your economy by slapping tariffs on every other country and pissing off your own allies. Have a look at your own country's history during the great depression last century. When the US govt decided to raise tariffs on all its goods in 1930 , it made the great depression a lot worse and longer because international trade dried up and people couldn't afford to buy imported goods. The stock market also crashed and took years to recover . The same thing is now happening worldwide and markets are crashing. Not good for any country including yours. Trump is ignoring history in pursuit of what? He may think slapping tariffs on everyone is going to make the average American wealthy but thats not how economics work.Economists worldwide including in US are saying these tariffs are going to crater the world economy , raise the price of everything and lead to a recession. It's inevitable and Trump and his admin don't seem to be able to comprehend that.

@Phil **********

no he's reversing NAFTA and other BS trade agreements that screwed Americans. Seen Detroit lately. See main st America, ghost towns because of these trade agreements that screwed Americans. After all we sacrificed in ww2, should have let Hitler have his way with you, ungrateful dicks

@John **********

, you dont seem to know much about history but you sure make some big claims. Hitler didn't invade or attack Australia

@Phil **********

Most of us support his equalizing measures against the high tariffs these other countries have against US goods, so yeah, f$&k them.

@Rob *******

, this was on Australian news after Trumps " liberation day " The Trump administration has put a 10 percent tariff on the Heard Island and McDonald Island which has a population of 0 people and is inhabited only by penguins.

😆 What sort of goods do the penguins produce that US imports? Your president is clearly a lunatic

@Phil **********

penguins do produce (poop) guano which is a good fertilizer 😂

@Phil **********

penguin biscuits. Or cookies as they like to call them.

@Rob *******

, yet you expect people from Europe and Asia to visit your country after you've just made them your trade enemies? Are you for real? Have you noticed the effect on the world stock markets particularly the US market? They're all tanking . Trump was a real estate salesman , that's it .. He has no idea about economics and these tariffs will just make everything more expensive even in the US.

@Bonnie ********

, ok. I just wonder, thank's god out passport has more power

@Brandon ***********

, oh. I thought they were married already

@Giuseppe *********

They are married. So if she wants to go live in the US she needs to do a marriage visa, not a tourist visa. They don't issue tourists visas to married women because they expect them to use the tourist visa to go the US and then never leave.

@Brandon ***********

, ok. But if someone like to be a turist, can't go? Maybe they wonder why not got visa?

@Giuseppe *********

same with shengen visa etc. Countries want to be sure tourists don't become residents!

@Stephen *******

, Stephen i understood, but i saw many thai turist in Italy, are they sure they come back?

Oh yes, you right Shengen pruve it, sorry.