Dear Ian,
Thank you for contacting Siam Legal International.
This is in reference to your recent inquiry made for Canada tourist visa on behalf of your girlfriend. It's your sole discretion whether to use an agency or do it by your own in filing the application. Should you choose to use our service, we charge 21,000 THB which covers from start to finish, including translation of documents from Thai to English. Plus, Canada visa fee of 4000 THB.
Before we let our prospect clients to pay our service fee, we need to talk to the main applicant for evaluation of his/her ties, as the visa officer will mainly look on the ties of the main applicant whether they have a Canadian sponsor or not. The ties that will be considered are - family obligations, community involvement, financial status, employment situation, travel history abroad, personal assets, purpose of visits, and etc.
The processing time from the date the application is submitted is within 3-4 weeks.
Please reply with your fiancee's mobile number so we can phone her tomorrow.