US Immigration Changes Policy on granting PH Tourist VISA's?

[Naked Gunz]

I suppose you realize that you are responding to a post from September, 2015.

Don't matter. That advice is timeless!

[Red Kilt]

Been married twice, engaged two more than that. I need to tattoo this on my forehead backwards so I can read it while looking in the mirror.

I suppose you realize that you are responding to a post from September, 2015.

[JeremyOfWSG]

Just wondering if anyone has recently been successful in obtaining a visa and advice on how it can be done.

I have a gf there who owns a clothing plant with 40 employees. We would like her to come here for a visit for both personal and business reasons. So I think it could be a tourist or business visa. She is 30. Single with no kids, rents her home, has money in the bank (not sure how much) , owns her own business and has lots of family there. She is definitely marriage material, but we would like to spend some significant time together before committing to marriage. I am divorced, she has never been married.

Based on recent experience, what is the best route to get a visa and what are the chances for success?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

TT

I have a Filipina GF who was able to get a 10 year multiple entry visa to the USA where the only condition is that she has to depart twice a year once in the USA. She works for a multinational but she thought the big factor was the fact that she and I had travelled to Japan twice and HK once and had a decent job (per Filipino standards). Frankly, I was shocked when she got it, but she got it. She was very ready for her interview. Now she comes here 2 - 3 times a year.

[Naked Gunz]

If a guy wants to ruin his life with marriage then another divorce. You don't have to go to another country to do it. There are tons of dating websites with woman who will ruin your life in your own country.

Been married twice, engaged two more than that. I need to tattoo this on my forehead backwards so I can read it while looking in the mirror.

[Jack Burton]

A good friend (pinay) in PH recently told me her sister has an appointment in Manila to get her tourist visa to visit her bf in the States.

According to my source (Deep State), 90% of those entering on visitor (tourist / business) visa are male, age 18-30, and speak fluent Maguindanao.

[TomSf]

Move to the Phil's & live with her (& her extended family) for minimum 6 months.

If after that you really must ruin your life, put an alimony ring on her finger in the Phil's & start filling out forms to import her to your home country.

Australia has recently drastically increased its visa charges. This will obviously severely cut down applications. One guy I know has imported 3 and was looking at asawa number 4 when I pointed out the new charges cooling his adour pretty quickly.

AV

If a guy wants to ruin his life with marriage then another divorce. You don't have to go to another country to do it. There are tons of dating websites with woman who will ruin your life in your own country.

[Amavida]

Just wondering if anyone has recently been successful in obtaining a visa and advice on how it can be done.

I have a gf there who owns a clothing plant with 40 employees. We would like her to come here for a visit for both personal and business reasons. So I think it could be a tourist or business visa. She is 30. Single with no kids, rents her home, has money in the bank (not sure how much) , owns her own business and has lots of family there. She is definitely marriage material, but we would like to spend some significant time together before committing to marriage. I am divorced, she has never been married.

Based on recent experience, what is the best route to get a visa and what are the chances for success?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

TT

Move to the Phil's & live with her (& her extended family) for minimum 6 months.

If after that you really must ruin your life, put an alimony ring on her finger in the Phil's & start filling out forms to import her to your home country.

Australia has recently drastically increased its visa charges. This will obviously severely cut down applications. One guy I know has imported 3 and was looking at asawa number 4 when I pointed out the new charges cooling his adour pretty quickly.

AV

[Pete Benetar]

The more you can show that she has roots in Phil and will return there the better. Visa to where USA? Thats probably the hardest country to get in to at the moment and the process is very back logged do to cutbacks in personel. Go look on the forums at the link below and see if anyone has accomplished or is looking to do the same.

www.visajourney.com

Visajourney is the best site I've found for message boarding and blogging on visa issues. Britishexpats DOT com is another good website for exploring visa issues as well.

US Consulates will always be more impressed the more hard assets the visa applicant has, such as real estate, cash savings etc.

[SactoAl]

{/QUOTE} No, What you mean to say is if she was ugly, unfit and 50 years old, unfuckable, with own home in the Phillipines.

She would probably fit it with the rest of the US women.

As such the imigation and homeland security would probably give her a tourist visa.

Hoo Rah.

Sly[/QUOTE]Or, if she was from Mexico, she would just lie and say she is going shopping, stay illegally, work illegally, get food stamps and subsidized housing, get free medical care in hospital emergency rooms, pop out a couple of kids, and just wait for a spineless Congress to pass the next amnesty program. Welcome to America.

[Tally Wacker]

The more you can show that she has roots in Phil and will return there the better. Visa to where USA? Thats probably the hardest country to get in to at the moment and the process is very back logged do to cutbacks in personel. Go look on the forums at the link below and see if anyone has accomplished or is looking to do the same.

www.visajourney.com

Just wondering if anyone has recently been successful in obtaining a visa and advice on how it can be done.

I have a gf there who owns a clothing plant with 40 employees. We would like her to come here for a visit for both personal and business reasons. So I think it could be a tourist or business visa. She is 30. Single with no kids, rents her home, has money in the bank (not sure how much) , owns her own business and has lots of family there. She is definitely marriage material, but we would like to spend some significant time together before committing to marriage. I am divorced, she has never been married.

Based on recent experience, what is the best route to get a visa and what are the chances for success?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

TT

[Sly One]

If she was a home owning. 50 year old she would have a chance.

No, What you mean to say is if she was ugly, unfit and 50 years old, unfuckable, with own home in the Phillipines.

She would probably fit it with the rest of the US women.

As such the imigation and homeland security would probably give her a tourist visa.

Hoo Rah.

Sly

[FreebieFan]

Just wondering if anyone has recently been successful in obtaining a visa and advice on how it can be done.

I have a gf there who owns a clothing plant with 40 employees. We would like her to come here for a visit for both personal and business reasons. So I think it could be a tourist or business visa. She is 30. Single with no kids, rents her home, has money in the bank (not sure how much) , owns her own business and has lots of family there. She is definitely marriage material, but we would like to spend some significant time together before committing to marriage. I am divorced, she has never been married.

Based on recent experience, what is the best route to get a visa and what are the chances for success?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

TT

Used to know someone in US Embassy in Manila. They reckoned that 90% of all applications for US tourists were denied outright, due to the threat of them going TNT (look it up ).

The fact she rents her own home is going to mean her application will be denied. She has no reason to return to Phils is how it will be viewed.

The fact she is single will mean hers will be denied. Maybe she's being trafficked is how it will be viewed.

The fact that she's female, single and 30 will mean her application will be denied. As above.

We live in strange times. If she was a homeowning. 50 year old she would have a chance.

[ThickTrick]

Just wondering if anyone has recently been successful in obtaining a visa and advice on how it can be done.

I have a gf there who owns a clothing plant with 40 employees. We would like her to come here for a visit for both personal and business reasons. So I think it could be a tourist or business visa. She is 30. Single with no kids, rents her home, has money in the bank (not sure how much) , owns her own business and has lots of family there. She is definitely marriage material, but we would like to spend some significant time together before committing to marriage. I am divorced, she has never been married.

Based on recent experience, what is the best route to get a visa and what are the chances for success?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

TT

[DoingOurDuty]

You make good points Tucker and you could in fact be right. I started with your opinion but I'm not ready to concede yet. It does not make sense I have not heart about it before now (same as you) because I am plugged into asian news and an avid reader of our national news sources. But you can even read about the new policy on the State Department website and about their goal of increasing visitors to the US as a mean of stimulating the economy. You're right it might apply to other 3rd world countries but not PH but there is already a new special website pandering for Filipino customers. And at same time I agree with you that I would expect some commentary about this in our news because it does seem like it could be controversial. You will either be proven right or it was possible for immigration to increase visa counts without any official legislative or executive permissions and they are slowly opening up the process and the news story hasn't broken yet because it will be a non event if immigration feels certain those they're letting in do not pose a security threat. I will be the first one to agree with you if the feedback starts to confirm the familiar old normal.

Honestly, I think you're reading more into this than we can conclude with any accuracy at this point. Look at that article link I posted yesterday (USA Today). There was no mention of any change in policy or a "new vision of encouraging visitors from around the world to the US." Haven't heard of such a policy change anywhere else in the news media. And if it is about getting more visitors to bring money into the USA, you know the Philippines would not have been at the top of the list for yielding affluent travelers. Thus, a policy change would have affected many countries and likely been reported in the news media somewhere. Not trying to rain on your parade, but as much of a political hot-potato as these things are (especially in an election year) , don't you think if there had been a real change, we'd have heard about it from either party, spun negatively or positively to suit their needs? Either "Obama is a good guy and is pumping up the economy by opening the USA to more visitors" or "Obama has relaxed visa standards, endangering Americans to possible terrorists coming here." Point is, we'd likely have heard of some kind of policy change in the media if it had actually happened.

One of the biggest things to remember is this process (of obtaining a visa) is that it has virtually no accountability from the applicant's side. The interviewer doesn't have to tell why they deny a visa or approve one, and with different applicants and different interviewers cited as examples, there are numerous variables in the process.

If you really want to help the chances of your girl getting a tourism visa, hire a visa agency that does visa applications for you. I hate the thought of spending the money on something like that, but that's what I'd do is I wanted to get a visa for a girl. Mainly for the reason that you're paying for the agency's experience, and a good one should have repeat experience at knowing what works and what doesn't; they can spot deficiencies in her app before she files, discuss what her application is lacking, coach her through the process of what is likely to happen, how the interview will likely go, etc. The way I see it, some simple or innocent mistake is going to cost you at a minimum $160 USD for a visa fee, and get a visa denial recorded. (Keep in mind, the applications ask "have you ever applied for a US visa before, and been denied?" Not sure how much weight is put on that question, but it is obviously nice to never have to answer "Yes." We've probably all experienced bueracracies ourselves at some point where nobody wanted to change a decision that had already been made.

[Tucker McElroy]

This is the kind of feedback I was hoping would be posted here. All indications seem to be that there is a new energy at US immigration to bring in more filipinos to US to visit which is why I opened this thread. I don't know if your friend got special treatment because of her employment but she did say she got denied the previous time she applied which still seems to support a new policy. The fact she describes the playing of welcome to US videos to those waiting for their appointments is consistent with what I was noticing on the US state department website about new immigration focus and she was even aware of the strategy to help stimulate a sluggish US economy.

As far as bf's being discouraged (as part of a new immigration policy if there is a new policy) to bring single pinays here as some have suggested I suspect just the opposite. Most guys wanting to bring a gf here are responsible and will make sure she does not fall into any kind of employment while she is here and will make sure she returns on time. I would guess that as far as the US state department is concerned they will especially welcome bf's bringing their gf's here on travel visa because there is no question it will help their goal of bringing more visitors here and no question those guys will be reaching much deeper into their wallets to entertain their special guests during her visit.

Honestly, I think you're reading more into this than we can conclude with any accuracy at this point. Look at that article link I posted yesterday (USA Today). There was no mention of any change in policy or a "new vision of encouraging visitors from around the world to the US." Haven't heard of such a policy change anywhere else in the news media. And if it is about getting more visitors to bring money into the USA, you know the Philippines would not have been at the top of the list for yielding affluent travelers. Thus, a policy change would have affected many countries and likely been reported in the news media somewhere. Not trying to rain on your parade, but as much of a political hot-potato as these things are (especially in an election year) , don't you think if there had been a real change, we'd have heard about it from either party, spun negatively or positively to suit their needs? Either "Obama is a good guy and is pumping up the economy by opening the USA to more visitors" or "Obama has relaxed visa standards, endangering Americans to possible terrorists coming here." Point is, we'd likely have heard of some kind of policy change in the media if it had actually happened.

One of the biggest things to remember is this process (of obtaining a visa) is that it has virtually no accountability from the applicant's side. The interviewer doesn't have to tell why they deny a visa or approve one, and with different applicants and different interviewers cited as examples, there are numerous variables in the process.

If you really want to help the chances of your girl getting a tourism visa, hire a visa agency that does visa applications for you. I hate the thought of spending the money on something like that, but that's what I'd do is I wanted to get a visa for a girl. Mainly for the reason that you're paying for the agency's experience, and a good one should have repeat experience at knowing what works and what doesn't; they can spot deficiencies in her app before she files, discuss what her application is lacking, coach her through the process of what is likely to happen, how the interview will likely go, etc. The way I see it, some simple or innocent mistake is going to cost you at a minimum $160 USD for a visa fee, and get a visa denial recorded. (Keep in mind, the applications ask "have you ever applied for a US visa before, and been denied?" Not sure how much weight is put on that question, but it is obviously nice to never have to answer "Yes." We've probably all experienced bueracracies ourselves at some point where nobody wanted to change a decision that had already been made.