Help: Visa to Lebanon Refused!! Could re-applying change anything?

Dual citizen here with Canada-Lebanon.

I'm questioning the validity of this. Who said that? Was it just some secretary giving her own opinion based on assumptions?

I hate when people post specific issues like this because just like legal issues, we don't know the whole story. And the only story we know, we can't validate.

I know countless couples and friends, Lebanese and not, who had no problems getting visa even when they knew they planned on staying in hotels. I know Jews (with very obvious names) who've gotten visas and went to Lebanon. I know several openly gay people who've gotten visas - including a couple. I have friends who are dating, he's Lebanese and she's mexican, not married but got a visa. They were all processed from the very same embassy in Ottawa.

So don't just throw a "when are we going to mature as a country". Visa being granted isn't on a basis of 'morality' and what's socially acceptable or not.

Also, if you planned it for this long, why did you wait a month before the trip to apply for the visa? You barely have any room to potentially have it reviewed.

If you're actually serious and convinced you were denied because "it's not morally acceptable for non-married couples to go", then feel free to PM me your name and file number if you have it. I'm meeting with the ambassador next week in Ottawa, I'll bring it up with him and see if he can take a look at it.

But please, only if you're serious about feeling unjustly treated and not that you're just venting for being refused for another reason.

/r/lebanon Thread