Flight from Manila to USA Info

[pratmaster 0]

. Changing her passport to her married name has to be done in person, you can wait for an outreach event or head up to DC for that. Not sure if there is an outreach event in Lexington, closest one for us was Nashville.

http://www.philippinesusa.org/index.php?page=consular-services-main/faq-main/#changename

3. Proof that applicant has not applied for foreign citizenship, e.g. resident alien card (under the passport due to name change area)

So I need to have her apply for a new passport before I file the I-485? Which is no big deal, I just want to make sure I do it all correctly.

[Greenbaum 12,258]

pratmaster, on 25 Jun 2016 - 1:58 PM, said:

https://www.mfa.gov.sg/content/mfa/overseasmission/canberra/consular_services/certificate_of_clearance.html

"

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) no longer issues the Certificate of Clearance (COC) to non-Singapore citizens. However, if a COC is still required by a non-Singapore citizen, he/she may wish to submit an appeal to SPF by completing both the appeal and application form. Please refer to the following website for more details:

http://www.police.gov.sg/e-services/apply/application-for-certificate-of-clearance" (dead link as of 6/25/16)

Well, I was wrong, I forgot that she had to appeal it.

I seam to remember she read something in the paper, or it was posted somewhere that Singapore no longer issued for non citizens, but we did all this back in Jan and Feb 2016, so I do not remember now.

I do remember reading that they (SPF) required a letter from the country issuing the visa stating that the US required the COC, but my fiancee just took in the print out from the USCI or some other US visa website with the instructions for the K-1 visa process, don't remember now what site is was.

I just know we got the COC right before she went back to the Philippines in March and it was not as big of a deal as she thought it was going to be.

So I was wrong, but not completely, just partly/mostly LOL..

It is very confusing. Each authority has stated something in contrast to the other. It is available, but not being their is a little harder than being in person.

Anyone needing a COC from Singapore can follow this link as it seems to be the requirements that USEM will accept.

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/fees/reciprocity-by-country/SN.html

[Hank_ 9,173]

http://www.philippinesusa.org/index.php?page=consular-services-main/faq-main/#changename

3. Proof that applicant has not applied for foreign citizenship, e.g. resident alien card (under the passport due to name change area)

So I need to have her apply for a new passport before I file the I-485? Which is no big deal, I just want to make sure I do it all correctly.

You found your own answers regarding the I-765 (work permit)

You complete the AOS (I-485) process first.

Then regarding renewing the passport in the married name, you complete that AFTER your wife has her green card, that is the "proof" the consulate is looking for in #3.

For now don't get too far ahead of yourself, get the visa process done and your fiancee in the USA.

Edited June 25, 2016 by Hank_

[pratmaster 0]

You found your own answers regarding the I-765 (work permit)

You complete the AOS (I-485) process first.

Then regarding renewing the passport in the married name, you complete that AFTER your wife has her green card, that is the "proof" the consulate is looking for in #3.

For now don't get too far ahead of yourself, get the visa process done and your fiancee in the USA.

Ok, that makes more since for the proof part..

Yeah, I guess I am getting ahead of myself a little, but I like to be as prepared as I can before I start something, one reason so many projects around the house do not get started, and yes that is what I am sticking to LOL..

Well, her interview is the 7th, so with any luck we can get her CFO interview and plane ride home by end of July. I am glad we are almost done with this part of the process and look forward to her coming home..

Thanks again...

[Hank_ 9,173]

I hear ya on that... big moment in time arriving home!

[duckhunter1 18]

We're preparing for the trip from Manila to U.S. too and I was thinking a one-way would work. Another prospective is that I have heard horror stories about the immigration/customs officials in Manila airport not allowing people to pass through without a return ticket to Philippines. This is usually a scam to get money I bet. Those guys can be crooked.

I've also heard that the immigration/customs agents in the airport in Manila require that the person flying have a certain amount of money on hand or in the bank.

Anyone heard this too?

[pratmaster 0]

We're preparing for the trip from Manila to U.S. too and I was thinking a one-way would work. Another prospective is that I have heard horror stories about the immigration/customs officials in Manila airport not allowing people to pass through without a return ticket to Philippines. This is usually a scam to get money I bet. Those guys can be crooked.

I've also heard that the immigration/customs agents in the airport in Manila require that the person flying have a certain amount of money on hand or in the bank.

Anyone heard this too?

I have never heard this, I do know that the Philippine immigration will not let me into the country unless I have a return flight ticket with in a set amount of time (based on the length I am staying, visa or not)

But as far as for leaving the Philippines I think this is just a story as there are thousands and thousands of OFW's (oversea Filipino workers) gong through the airport every year. I do not think any of them have return tickets since they are working over seas and have no idea when they can come back next. My fiancee was a OFW and never was asked anything.

As for the money, same thing, they have time to ask the 1000 or more OFW's that flow through the terminals every day? Heck, when I left last time, I bet there was over a 1000 OFW's in the same terminal as I was in for my flight back home this past May.

Now there is one thing that does have to do with money, it is some tax that people have to pay if it was not included in the ticket. I do not understand what it is or how it works as I think its only for Filipino citizens and my fiancee last trip was included in the ticket. I asked about it and she told me, but that was last year and I do not remember now..

I would wait until others post too, but I think this is just stories.

[Hank_ 9,173]

We're preparing for the trip from Manila to U.S. too and I was thinking a one-way would work. Another prospective is that I have heard horror stories about the immigration/customs officials in Manila airport not allowing people to pass through without a return ticket to Philippines. This is usually a scam to get money I bet. Those guys can be crooked.

I've also heard that the immigration/customs agents in the airport in Manila require that the person flying have a certain amount of money on hand or in the bank.

Anyone heard this too?

Nope, never hear any of those.

[Greenbaum 12,258]

We're preparing for the trip from Manila to U.S. too and I was thinking a one-way would work. Another prospective is that I have heard horror stories about the immigration/customs officials in Manila airport not allowing people to pass through without a return ticket to Philippines. This is usually a scam to get money I bet. Those guys can be crooked.

I've also heard that the immigration/customs agents in the airport in Manila require that the person flying have a certain amount of money on hand or in the bank.

Anyone heard this too?

Nope. Never heard anything like that.