Here's the story :
My boyfriend (Dominican citizen) and I (Canadian Citizen) met during my first trip to the Dominican with my family in March 2002 when I was in grade 4. He was staying at the resort for a vacation with his father. I was with my brother (grade 6 at the time). Being kids, we played by the pool and bumped into a young Dominican boy of our age. Although his English was broken, he was tons of fun to be around so my brother and I pronounced him as our friend. The 3 of us would play by the pool everyday, and before then end of this vacation, my brother asked him if he had MSN so we could keep contact. Luckily he did, so we exchanged emails. When my brother and I got back to Canada and got on MSN, we already saw an email request from him, so accepted and we'd talk very frequently.
The months passed by and me and him got closer as friends. We would talk very often. His english slowly started improving and I slowly picked up on Spanish. Years passed by and we were both in highschool and were in our own seperate relationships however remained very close friends and updated eachother on everything and were so happy for eachother. 2 years passed and his girlfriend had dumped him and the following year, my relationship ended too. Both devasted, we tried our best to comfort eachother and get through our final year in highschool to get high marks that were required to get into university. Finally, December 2010 came along and my mom said that we should take a vacation to DR. I was so happy and told him, and this is when we decided that since we've been such good friends for 8 years already, and weve experienced serious relationships of our own, why not try one out together?
So this is what we did, and he came down and stayed at the hotel that my family and I stayed at. My family got to know him better, and me and him spent more time together and out relationship grew. We kept calling eachother every day ever since and have kept all the calling cards that weve used. Theres about 300 because we did this for almost a year. Our feelings continued to grow and our love for eachother grew stronger. Finally December 2011, my family decided to take another trip to the DR where my boyfriend came to the resort again and spent time with my family and I.
The happiness in our relationship continued to stay even after I was back in Canada. We kept on talking and in April 2012, I went to the DR for a weekend to spend time with him (such a short period of time because I had to come back to write my University Exams - studying Engineering). Ever since then, the both of us got BBM so we've been keeping contact 24/7 actually, constantly sending eachother pictures of what were doing, voice messages etc.
He is currently doing an apprenticeship in Electrical Engineering and has a job as an Assistant Manager of a Print Company, and I am studying Chemical Engineering in University. We've known eachother for 10 years, been in a serious happy, positive educated relationship for 2 years. Now I want him to come visit me here, and my family wishes the same.
We've got all the paperwork together :
Pictures of my family and I from our first DR Vacation in 2002
-A 9 page letter written by myself on the history of our relationship
-A letter written by him of our relationship
-500 pages on conversation history
-80 pictures of me and him together
-A Letter from his school saying that he must return to the DR to write his final exams
-A Letter from his boss stating his position, salary & that he must return back to work
-Photocopies of the 300 calling cards that we had used during the first year of our relationship
-Gift Receipts
-Letter of Invitation from myself specifically stating the dates of the vacation ( Dec X 2012 - Jan X 2013) and that I want him to be here for my birthday which will be on December 27th 2012.
-Letter of Invitation from my parents stating that they will cover the costs of everything (Travel, Accomodation)
-Copy of their most recent T1 to show sufficient funds
We are going to apply at the embassy at the end of this week. But my boyfriend and I are still very nervous. What do you think are chances are on obtaining a TRV and what do you guys think of our history?
My boyfriend (Dominican citizen) and I (Canadian Citizen) met during my first trip to the Dominican with my family in March 2002 when I was in grade 4. He was staying at the resort for a vacation with his father. I was with my brother (grade 6 at the time). Being kids, we played by the pool and bumped into a young Dominican boy of our age. Although his English was broken, he was tons of fun to be around so my brother and I pronounced him as our friend. The 3 of us would play by the pool everyday, and before then end of this vacation, my brother asked him if he had MSN so we could keep contact. Luckily he did, so we exchanged emails. When my brother and I got back to Canada and got on MSN, we already saw an email request from him, so accepted and we'd talk very frequently.
The months passed by and me and him got closer as friends. We would talk very often. His english slowly started improving and I slowly picked up on Spanish. Years passed by and we were both in highschool and were in our own seperate relationships however remained very close friends and updated eachother on everything and were so happy for eachother. 2 years passed and his girlfriend had dumped him and the following year, my relationship ended too. Both devasted, we tried our best to comfort eachother and get through our final year in highschool to get high marks that were required to get into university. Finally, December 2010 came along and my mom said that we should take a vacation to DR. I was so happy and told him, and this is when we decided that since we've been such good friends for 8 years already, and weve experienced serious relationships of our own, why not try one out together?
So this is what we did, and he came down and stayed at the hotel that my family and I stayed at. My family got to know him better, and me and him spent more time together and out relationship grew. We kept calling eachother every day ever since and have kept all the calling cards that weve used. Theres about 300 because we did this for almost a year. Our feelings continued to grow and our love for eachother grew stronger. Finally December 2011, my family decided to take another trip to the DR where my boyfriend came to the resort again and spent time with my family and I.
The happiness in our relationship continued to stay even after I was back in Canada. We kept on talking and in April 2012, I went to the DR for a weekend to spend time with him (such a short period of time because I had to come back to write my University Exams - studying Engineering). Ever since then, the both of us got BBM so we've been keeping contact 24/7 actually, constantly sending eachother pictures of what were doing, voice messages etc.
He is currently doing an apprenticeship in Electrical Engineering and has a job as an Assistant Manager of a Print Company, and I am studying Chemical Engineering in University. We've known eachother for 10 years, been in a serious happy, positive educated relationship for 2 years. Now I want him to come visit me here, and my family wishes the same.
We've got all the paperwork together :
Pictures of my family and I from our first DR Vacation in 2002
-A 9 page letter written by myself on the history of our relationship
-A letter written by him of our relationship
-500 pages on conversation history
-80 pictures of me and him together
-A Letter from his school saying that he must return to the DR to write his final exams
-A Letter from his boss stating his position, salary & that he must return back to work
-Photocopies of the 300 calling cards that we had used during the first year of our relationship
-Gift Receipts
-Letter of Invitation from myself specifically stating the dates of the vacation ( Dec X 2012 - Jan X 2013) and that I want him to be here for my birthday which will be on December 27th 2012.
-Letter of Invitation from my parents stating that they will cover the costs of everything (Travel, Accomodation)
-Copy of their most recent T1 to show sufficient funds
We are going to apply at the embassy at the end of this week. But my boyfriend and I are still very nervous. What do you think are chances are on obtaining a TRV and what do you guys think of our history?
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