Belgium visa rejection

Visa shopping will not change her situation.

Other EU countries will just refuse for the very same reason as they have access to a common system.

You have few other options:

1. Go and see her in China.
2. She applies for a visa and visits your country of origin.
3. You meet in non-EU countries like Albania. (Visa free for Chinese nationals and just 2hours flight away from Belgium)

Greetings,
I am a Non-EU living/working in Belgium more than 5 years, I am in a relationship with my girlfriend from China for 2 years and applied for a tourist visa in Belgium for her to see my lifestyle and enviroment and travel together, therefore I sent all the necessary documents/invitation to visit me here, however the visa was refused due to my girlfriend not having a job(even though I am sponsoring her) and believing that she will not return to her country.

We do not want to marry yet as we both think it is too early to decide, we just want to visit eachother frequently so we can get used to eachother.

My question is should we try other Schengen countries like Netherlands or Germany with a fresh application as we just want to travel or should we apply for Belgian tourist visa one more time with more documents like photos when we were together, chats, phone calls, gifts etc?

Or should we try countries like Lithuania, Greece etc. to travel?

I am kinda scared to apply for Belgian visa as it was rejected for the first time and will be harder later on.
-@user3721

How long did your application take for a decision? Even though unfortunately it was refused, but how long did the whole process take for y

I was in that case, years ago...........

A foreigner with low income / none.... it's a dead case for a tourist visa. Truly... (you should have send some money on her bank account first, before doing the visa, to prove she'll get back home and could handle herself in case you throw her away!)

Edigj is quite right about your options, but I would add few things to take into account.

You also have the possibility of a legal cohabitation (a kind of light marriage), that would allow her to live with you in Belgium, have civil rights toward each other (YOU cover officially for her as a legal partner).

You'll need to proof that you know each other for more than 2 years, you met at least 3 time durant the last 2 years, and spend at least 45 days together.

That's basically ridiculous in case of real relationship and I guess you probably fit it!

(you must understand that the idea of the process is to live together!)

You must have travel together (visa stamps), plane tickets both name, book hotel with both name, lot of pictures, phone call history (whatsapp, signal, messenger, ...), ... to prove that you're not faking the relation!

@Alex. As non-EU citizen his legal cohabitation visa is dead case as well. It will take him ages and ages to get one approved. It falls on the lowest priority.

It is a different story if he would have been/become Belgian.

normally not, because he stated that he's been in Belgium for 5 years.

So based on the law of the 15th December 1980 - article 10 and 10 bis, if he hold a A, B, C/K, D/L, F, F+, H, K, L then he can!

@Edigj

Thank you, we werent aware of visa shopping, I think best option is to apply for Belgium again

We visited eachother in eachothers countries but it started getting too expensive everytime we want to see eachother due to hotels flights etc. I would like her to come see me couple of weeks in a year.

@hibbasaleem18

It took us 34 days and even exceeded the travel date due to the application being transferred to FPS interior office.

@AlexFromBelgium

Thank you for sharing your own experience, I thought of legal cohabiting but thought it might be harder than a tourist visa and right now we are not planning to live together as she wants to see if she would like Belgium or get adapted first, that is why we went for a tourist visa, I also sent her some money to show on her bank account together to show to embassy with her own assets

I am a little bit complicated on what to do right now, especially my F card is about to expire (1 month) and waiting for my new F or F+ card from the commune.

Should we apply again when I get my card or woulf it be a problem if I apply with my current one?

You should indeed wait for the renewal (10 years now) to do any visa request. But keep in mind it's way easier to make somebody come & live in Belgium than coming for tourist purpose.

The reason is simple: you, living in Belgium, has to proof all the incomes etc... your partner would just need to identify herself + medical visa checkup.......

Good luck