Robert1985

All right, thank you all for your answers

we'll catch up together before arriving in the states so that we fly-in/enter together with both of our paperwork/proof/etc.

Hello,

As we are filling my wife B2 visa application, we have a dispute over the appropriate answer for the question "Persons Traveling With You"

From dinsmôre page Tips for ds-160, it seem straightforward (You should answer "Yes" to this question if you are traveling with family, as part of an organized tour, or as part of a performing group or athletic team.) but my wife don't agree on the definition of traveling with.

My wife is a Cameroon citizen, living in Cameroon, in her house (and she does have the proper paperwork for the house). We want to travel to the states this summer. I'm Canadian citizen living in Canada. While I admit that we not going/traveling to the states together in the most restricted sense of "going/traveling to" (as she takes the plane form Africa to USA, and I take the car from Canada to USA and pick her up at the airport) I'd say that since we will be together during the vacation we should still indicate Yes to that answer. Also, personally I'm not applying for the Visa myself since my B2 visit sill start when I simply cross the border and state my purpose of travel.

So I wanted more experience opinion on if she should write Yes or No. Or even, if in order to write Yes I should fly to Cameroon first so we can fly together to USA. The reason I want her to write Yes, is that I want to consular to view the vacation as the couple together, as I'm the one paying for our trip. If she is considered traveling alone then she have no sufficient means of finances to show for the trip (other than having my bank's card). Am I just worrying too much ?

I know her approval chances are already below-average as she, like most women in her country, have no job. I'm not saying that they do nothing of their day, stay-at-home wife is still a respectable life choice, but it gains her no income.

I also know that she might have to give proofs about being legitimately married. I'm not too worried on that point, as we already have a lot of proof which we submitted for her Canadian PR application; which she can bring along to the interview.

Spouse from visa exempt countries (US, Bahamas, most of Europe, etc) are allowed to wait in, or visit, Canada during the sponsorship processing. But for spouses in countries that needs visa (Philippines, Most if not all of Africa, etc.), It is almost impossible to receive one while the permanent residence is underway, unless they can show home-country ties stronger than being spouse of a Canadian.

Yes the wedding is several months ahead. If she need to focus on Cameroon ties, I'll build up on that. I can easily get a PR for Cameroon, so she can show she not only have a house in Cameroon but also that her husband is a PR there.

edit : so I can cross for 6 months. That is good to know. I just need a visa for her so we can be closer.

Hello,

I started reading up on the topic but I have some questions. Hmm I better start by introducing myself.

I'm a 30yo canadian who live and work in Canada, about an hour from the border.

My future wife is a 25yo citizen and resident in Cameroon.

We are building a house in Cameroun to live after the wedding, but unfortunately HR at work won't allow me Remote distance working (although they allowed it to someone else in another department so I'll continue attempting to have that). At least I was allowed 1 month vacation. So after the wedding I'm returning in Canada.

We don't have fiancé visa in Canada and even though we'll apply for her permanent residence in Canada that will take between 13 and 24 months.

So what I was thinking, was to seek temporary residence in the US so that I can work in Canada but see my wife on evening/weekend. Even only doing that for 6 month out of the 13-24 month of the PR process would be a blessing. After 6 month we'd likely go back to Cameroon and see the family, unless we can first extend the US visa or manage to get an Early Entry clause on the PR sponsorship.

So a quick timeline is : have the wedding. mail the PR application to Canada (takes 2 week). Wait for approval of the Canadian sponsor which takes 2 month. Apply for US visa which takes 3 week for interview and sometime 2 month for administrative processing. At this point, 5 months have gone by in the 13-24 month process. Do 6 month in US and hopefully extend or get early entry to Canada. Ultimately if the PR is refused, then I'd move permanently to Cameroon, but after approval of sponsor and having clean medical and criminal check the chance of success is very good, it just takes time to process the applications.

I was told I'd be visa exempt, but it seem that is only for 90 day, so while a NEXUS would help cross the border I still need a visa. Can I apply jointly with my wife ? My wife by herself cannot apply, I think, because she has no employment. But she need to apply in Cameroon. And I guess I'd apply in Canada ? I wouldn't mind if I had to travel back to Cameroon to pass the interview with her. My big question is in the event I don't need to apply, then how to have the embassy in Cameroon consider her visa application as traveling/accompanying her husband as I'm the one making the household income. (she also have a relatively small income from homestead farming, and selling at the market, while she live in Cameroun)

We would be traveling together to the US, but we would catch up at the New York airport. And then while we'd be in Massena, I would go work in Canada. So I guess we fall under B-2 Visa. From what I read even if she take English as 2nd Language courses and Driving courses (because she only understand some English but doesn't speak it; and she want to learn to drive a car since in Canada I don't live in the city), it is still a B-2 visa.

I was looking at the visa application and it looks simple, compared to Canada, which is why I wonder if I missed anything. Applicants need to fill 1 form, have 1 photo, get interviewed, and bring along financial proof and home-ties proof. Ah that was another question. Her home-ties.... according to Canadian visa officers her ties are much stronger for Canada. So to the US officer, do I show she have ties to Cameroon, or will they see her ties to Canada as sufficient to show she'll leave the US ?