Help fast with Passport

[J and O 0]

Help fast please...my fiancee is in line trying to get her Passport renewed (expires in Sept) so she get her interview schedueled in Manila. They told to come the 12th of July...what should she do to get it renewed now so we can progress on. We are wanting her to be able to leave by then.

Thanks

[J and O 0]

She is still in line and they are telling her that she needs to have the interview papers before they will renew passport...and embassy told her to get the passport before she can schedule the interview?????

does anyone in the Philippines know what they are doing????

[kazysgirl 1]

She is still in line and they are telling her that she needs to have the interview papers before they will renew passport...and embassy told her to get the passport before she can schedule the interview?????

does anyone in the Philippines know what they are doing????

Did your fiancee scheduled her passport renewal online? Tell her to visit this site --> http://epassport.com.ph/set-appointment. It would be easier for her to renew the passport since she will be given schedule online on when to go to DFA and have her photo and fingerprint scan taken for the e-passport. Then, let her have it expedited so that in a week the passport will be delivered to her.

Hope this helps.

[J and O 0]

Thanks...will see if she can give that a try

[J and O 0]

Did your fiancee scheduled her passport renewal online? Tell her to visit this site --> http://epassport.com.ph/set-appointment. It would be easier for her to renew the passport since she will be given schedule online on when to go to DFA and have her photo and fingerprint scan taken for the e-passport. Then, let her have it expedited so that in a week the passport will be delivered to her.

Hope this helps.

OK we tried online and she cannot get a date until August. The DFA won't renew her passport which expires in September until after she can prove that she has actual plans to leave the Philippines....like airline tickets they said. The embassy told her to make her appointment after she gets her passport renewed. She can't do her medical until she has an appointment date set...it feels like we are in a loop going nowhere.

DFA told her to return July 12 and then she will be able to renew her passport...at this she will be ready to leave sometime in September....we were so hoping for a wedding date of July 31 and now it looks like that surely is not going to happen.

Monday was a holiday at the embassy...I do plan to call them today (their Tuesday) and see if I can get something going or at least some information on what to do.

Anyone have any other solutions....Olive is getting very flustrated and feeling that she is failing at her part of this process.

JD

[mrs.B. 0]

tell her to check the DFA regional offices. there's one in Angeles, Pampanga. they might accept walk-ins.

[J and O 0]

tell her to check the DFA regional offices. there's one in Angeles, Pampanga. they might accept walk-ins.

Angeles is where she is....she has been told that this is a busy time and DFA has stepped up their policies. We are tyring a different venture and if it works will share. From the way it sounds she has to produce an actual airline booking that she is indeed going to leave the Philippines before the guard would even let her in the door. Hard to book an airline ticket when your not even sure when the passport will be done so you can do the medical and interview!!!!

My thinking is that the Philippines doesn't now want people leaving the country....

[Deputy Purple 1,294]

My thinking is that the Philippines doesn't now want people leaving the country....

I seriously doubt that as remittances from overseas would be reduced by this thinking.

I would be more likely to believe that they are trying to crack down on forged/modified documents so they want to believe that the applicant is actually going to use the passport them-self and not sell it to a "fixor"

[J and O 0]

Very well could be also...however it is very frustrating for us in trying to get Olive here....I am just frustrated because it seems that we keep doing everything right and at each corner we have another issue to deal with...we are just keeping hope and prays and in a few months can look back and know that it was worth all the bumps in the road...I do have to say however that when I called the embassy they were more than accommodating and very helpful....

It is very sad what this world has become with so many scammers that no even the honest person is trusted any longer

Edited June 1, 2010 by J and O

[Puppy eyes 0]

Help fast please...my fiancee is in line trying to get her Passport renewed (expires in Sept) so she get her interview schedueled in Manila. They told to come the 12th of July...what should she do to get it renewed now so we can progress on. We are wanting her to be able to leave by then.

Thanks

remmember her passport has to be vigilant 6months after the interview, she needs to renew now, and now they are asking more requirments for the philippine passport, alot of things you can get online for her thru the NSO website, such as her CENOMAR and Birth certificate and others, u pay online with card and ship to her, its easy just liek we do it here in USA, she will be required to have the new type of passport at the time of interview

[Puppy eyes 0]

go here

http://dfa.gov.ph/main/

http://www.census.gov.ph/

[Tahoma 2,292]

Why doesn't she simply buy an airline ticket? Didn't you say it would solve the problem?

[cHiQy 1]

Same here, my mother is with my daughter to get my daughter a new passport, not a renewal, but for first time applicant.

They told my mom to get an appointment through online. The earliest is August 10 !!!!!!!!

Our problem is, we can't send the DS230 of my daughter without a copy of her passport

My mother is now asking some help from my aunt who knew a senator.

Hope they could help us

I got so frustrated when my mom emailed me this news, I can't wait to be with my daughter after 4 loooooooong years, and now, it gets even loooooooooonger

Edited June 2, 2010 by cHiQy

[J and O 0]

Same here, my mother is with my daughter to get my daughter a new passport, not a renewal, but for first time applicant.

They told my mom to get an appointment through online. The earliest is August 10 !!!!!!!!

Our problem is, we can't send the DS230 of my daughter without a copy of her passport

My mother is now asking some help from my aunt who knew a senator.

Hope they could help us

I got so frustrated when my mom emailed me this news, I can't wait to be with my daughter after 4 loooooooong years, and now, it gets even loooooooooonger

You are the first person that is sympathic to what is going on....we were also told that her first appointment by trying online was an appointment for August...we are working on booking a ticket only....you cannot buy an airline ticket without knowing for sure that she will have her VISA by that date unless you want to purchase the ticket without knowing for sure she can leave unless of course you have an extra $1000 laying around which I don't happen to have today.

We too have contacted our senator...however that could take months and by then the issue will be resolved.

Good luck cHiQy I hope you can get your appointment date moved up....at least we can get in earlier in Angeles than by using the online appointment that was for August. And are still holding out that maybe our senator will come through sooner.

[Filipinawife0210 15]

Sorry if this comes across as rude, but you should have known all along that her passport would have to be renewed. Waiting until the last minute is not the best course of action considering you had plans for a Jul wedding, IF she passes the interview, and doesn't get AP, or RFE...When my wife found out her passport would need to be renewed, she went in and renewed it. No problems. I hope that you can work something out, and that everything falls into place. Good luck!