Recognition of Foreign Divorce in the Philippines

[Neurotickitty 0]

I am a Filipino woman engaged to an American guy. We are looking to get married next year in the US. I was previously married here in the Philippines to a British guy. We separated in 2013 and he filed for divorce. I got a copy of the divorce decree in 2016. My question is: would I still need to have my foreign divorce recognized here in the Philippines when I am looking to get married in the US? 

[John & Rose 7,239]

No.  As long as you have your divorce papers (signed by a judge) you are good to go.  You are interviewing on American soil for an American visa.  The CO at the embassy will only need to see that you are eligible to remarry.  From what you have said, you are fine.  You will need a CENOMAR so you should be fine unless you legally registered the marriage in the Philippines.

[mjt112215 1]

I am in a situation where I got married to a UScitizen and got divorced… and as far as I remember I know when I changed my maiden name on my passport when I got married to him it was a requirement for me to do the report of marriage on it and then they changed my last name on his surname… fast forward to today… I remarried to a US citizen and now I want to renew my passport to his surname however the Consulate General of Phil’s in Chicago called me and told me that I have to get Recognition of Foreign Divorce via Philippine court… it sounded to me at first that they don’t have any clue whether my marriage to my first husband was legally registered or not in Phil’s and even asked me at first that I have to get a Cenomar… then later on told me they can’t process my report of marriage on my second marriage because I need that to be aunthenticatd by the Philippine court… 

 

so so now my question is 

 

1) if I will just use the same surname on my passport when I renew it this April Can I just still use my ex husband’s surname? 

 

2)I am planning to file citizenship this year … will it affect my citizenship if my passport is in my ex husband’s surname and my state id is in my current husband’s surname? 

 

Is is there anyone here who undergo the procedure of getting that Recognition of Foreign Divorce thing in Phil? 

[Neurotickitty 0]

5 hours ago, John & Rose said:

No.  As long as you have your divorce papers (signed by a judge) you are good to go.  You are interviewing on American soil for an American visa.  The CO at the embassy will only need to see that you are eligible to remarry.  From what you have said, you are fine.  You will need a CENOMAR so you should be fine unless you legally registered the marriage in the Philippines.

What do you mean by “legally registered” the marriage in the Philippines? 

I did not update my marital status after my marriage to my British husband. I am still using my maiden last name on all government IDs; my passport, PRC license.