Hi
I am a NZ citizen and my fiance lives in Egypt. He wanted to apply for the partnership temporary work visa to come live with me in NZ but we have not lived together so we don't meet the requirements. So we applied for a general visitor visa instead and he stated the purpose as "visiting my fiance". We have attached a lot of "bone fide" evidence including:
- Employment letter confirming leave duration
- Contract for an apartment he owns
- Return ticket
- Cover letter explaining reason for visit (visiting fiance for summer) and that all his family lives in NZ and other commitments in Egypt
I have also sponsored him for the duration of his visit.
The visa got declined at Dubai branch with the following reason (from decision letter):
"While we acknowledge the positive aspects of your application, such as the support of an acceptable New Zealand sponsor, we still consider there to be some risk attached to approving a visa at this time.
Our concern stems partly from the fact that you do not appear to have a proven travel history and although you have mentioned employment and other commitments to return to in Egypt it is not clear that circumstances are such that incentives for you to leave New Zealand necessarily outweigh possible incentives to remain. At this time we do also note the relative economic and security climate of the region in which you reside vs that of New Zealand.
We cannot be satisfied based on available information that you are likely to be a "bona fide'' visitor genuinely intending a temporary stay. As a result, your application for a visa has been declined."
So it seems that their main reasons are that he doesn't have proven travel history -> he hasn't traveled before so that is why, and the economic and security climate differences -> which we cannot change.
So these didn't seem to be enough reasons to decline the application for bona fide considering what we have provided. Is there other evidence that we should have provided?
In my application, we didn't say that we are planning to apply for partnership visa since we are still not sure, could this be why they declined it? If we are re-applying should we mention that or would that cause the application to be declined too?
I am not sure what we did wrong so I don't know what are our options now ??