Passport renewal and report of marriage

[MamaLove 0]

Hello Kabayans. Mabuhay!

Weeks ago, i sent an online passport renewal app form at the Phil. Embassy (outreach program). I sent my app form on my married name (my old passport was under my maiden name) and along with it are report of marriage form signed by both of us and our marriage certificate (i did not know anything about reporting a marriage thing until that day I sent the application). I did it because somebody here on VJ said that we can do the application (passport and ROM) all at the same time.

Long story short, i forgot everything about opening my email after that. Spouse got sick, im working and my teen started school etc. Now i am out of town as in another state for an important matter. So I saw the Phil embassy's reply. JUST NOW. That i need to apply first for ROM ASAP because it will take weeks and then when I receive the approved ROM from the embassy, I have to present it on the day of my passport app appointment so they can change my name.

So, I went to the website and I learned that i need to send them 4 copies of ROM app form, notarized and our marriage cert. How's that?.. I am way out of my town now and will be back 2 days before my appointment. #sadface

So they will not change my name? anybody here who has the same experience?

Thank you for your time to read. God bless. Kababayans.

[Hank_ 9,173]

Hello Kabayans. Mabuhay!

Weeks ago, i sent an online passport renewal app form at the Phil. Embassy (outreach program). I sent my app form on my married name (my old passport was under my maiden name) and along with it are report of marriage form signed by both of us and our marriage certificate (i did not know anything about reporting a marriage thing until that day I sent the application). I did it because somebody here on VJ said that we can do the application (passport and ROM) all at the same time.

Long story short, i forgot everything about opening my email after that. Spouse got sick, im working and my teen started school etc. Now i am out of town as in another state for an important matter. So I saw the Phil embassy's reply. JUST NOW. That i need to apply first for ROM ASAP because it will take weeks and then when I receive the approved ROM from the embassy, I have to present it on the day of my passport app appointment so they can change my name.

So, I went to the website and I learned that i need to send them 4 copies of ROM app form, notarized and our marriage cert. How's that?.. I am way out of my town now and will be back 2 days before my appointment. #sadface

So they will not change my name? anybody here who has the same experience?

Thank you for your time to read. God bless. Kababayans.

You can do ROM and the passport renewal all at once during your appointment, that is what my wife did at an outreach event. Then you don't need to get anything notarized as they will stamp everything there.

Edited August 26, 2014 by Hank_

[Greenbaum 12,258]

Hank and OP.... it depends on the Embassy she is using. We use Wash D.C. and they require the ROM to be finished and presented at the time of the Passport name change at the outreach. Don't know if that is true if you are in the "building" of the Embassy you are using.

I recommend to the OP to email the Embassy with her questions and see if there is a response from a "live" person.

[MamaLove 0]

Thank you Hank and Greenbaum.

Phil Embassy - Washington.

[Hank_ 9,173]

Hank and OP.... it depends on the Embassy she is using. We use Wash D.C. and they require the ROM to be finished and presented at the time of the Passport name change at the outreach. Don't know if that is true if you are in the "building" of the Embassy you are using.

I recommend to the OP to email the Embassy with her questions and see if there is a response from a "live" person.

That is true, forgot about each consulate doing things their own way... I know the LA consulate has different document requirements also for ROM.

[Greenbaum 12,258]

Hank_, on 26 Aug 2014 - 8:43 PM, said:Hank_, on 26 Aug 2014 - 8:43 PM, said:

That is true, forgot about each consulate doing things their own way... I know the LA consulate has different document requirements also for ROM.

That's the burr in my south end. Why can't a country, in this case Philippines, have the same rules and level playing field for all. And to insure it is that way through out all their Embassy's? Seems to me that would only be fair to their citizens.

On a side note: So I enlist in these United States of America and it's Naval branch. I go through boot camp and all. I learn that it gets folded this way, and lays that way and it has to be this far apart and it can't be more than this in the pile on and on and on but when it comes to our Government the rules are all so different depending what state you live in, what county your from and what street you live on. It drives me !@#$%% bonkers.

Edited August 27, 2014 by Greenbaum