A study permit holder's wife and 4-year-old daughter were refused entry documents on 'won't leave Canada' grounds. All property is in his name, so he asked what his wife could show as ties and assets when reapplying. Useful advice from the thread:
- Get the real refusal picture first. A member advised applying for GCMS notes to see the officer's exact reasoning before rebuilding the file — 'won't leave Canada' on the letter is a category, not the specifics.
- Assets beyond real estate count. The concrete list offered for a spouse without property in her name: jewelry, life insurance policies, provident fund balances, vehicle valuations — documentable assets that establish her independent financial footprint.
- Don't be paralyzed by the refusal. One member's blunt encouragement was to reapply rather than treat a dependent-visa refusal as final — refusals on this ground are commonly overcome with a better-documented second application.
(One reply dismissed home ties as a myth given Canada's immigration targets; the thread itself — an actual refusal on those grounds — is the counterexample. Treat ties evidence as necessary for dependent applications.)