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I will add to this thread that you if you plan on getting a visa based on either a spouse or child in the Philippines, you should write to the consulate to double check the requirements.

 

I posted in another thread that if your spouse cannot send a notarized letter that he/she is in the Philippines, then having them take a picture with a recent newspaper (showing the date) and submitting that is acceptable.

 

If you are applying for a visa based on a child, you should ask the Consulate if a DFA letter is really needed.  Some people entering the Philippines to see their children have been asked for this by immigration.  This requirement is NOT listed in any consulate web-site and I know of no foreigners being denied entry for not having one.

 

Also, if your spouse/child is not in Manila, you should have some kind of detailed plan on how you are going to see them as some provinces have 2 week quarantines to enter them and if you are only in the Philippines for a limited time, this may make the trip not possible and immigration may question this.  The only areas in the Philippines under GCQ (meaning the least restrictions) is Luzon, plus NCR, Tacloban area, and Bacolod.  Every other area is MECQ or MGCQ which makes travel difficult.  

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1 hour ago, flicks1998 said:

I will add to this thread that you if you plan on getting a visa based on either a spouse or child in the Philippines, you should write to the consulate to double check the requirements.

 

I posted in another thread that if your spouse cannot send a notarized letter that he/she is in the Philippines, then having them take a picture with a recent newspaper (showing the date) and submitting that is acceptable.

 

If you are applying for a visa based on a child, you should ask the Consulate if a DFA letter is really needed.  Some people entering the Philippines to see their children have been asked for this by immigration.  This requirement is NOT listed in any consulate web-site and I know of no foreigners being denied entry for not having one.

 

Also, if your spouse/child is not in Manila, you should have some kind of detailed plan on how you are going to see them as some provinces have 2 week quarantines to enter them and if you are only in the Philippines for a limited time, this may make the trip not possible and immigration may question this.  The only areas in the Philippines under GCQ (meaning the least restrictions) is Luzon, plus NCR, Tacloban area, and Bacolod.  Every other area is MECQ or MGCQ which makes travel difficult.  

The least restrictive level is MGCQ (not GCQ) followed by GCQ then MECQ and the top level is ECQ.

YMMV

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13 minutes ago, payxibka said:

The least restrictive level is MGCQ (not GCQ) followed by GCQ then MECQ and the top level is ECQ.

Ah yes correct.  So since no one is in MGCQ, the current situation is even worse.  

The United States is now a country obsessed with the worship of its own ignorance.  Americans are proud of not knowing things.  They have reached a point where ignorance, is an actual virtue.  To reject the advice of experts is to assert autonomy, a way for Americans to insulate their increasingly fragile egos from ever being told they're wrong about anything.  It is a new Declaration of Independence: no longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that arent true.  All things are knowable and every opinion on any subject is as good as any other.  The fundamental knowledge of the average American is now so low that it has crashed through the floor of "uninformed", passed "misinformed", on the way down, and now plummeting to "aggressively wrong."

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4 minutes ago, flicks1998 said:

Ah yes correct.  So since no one is in MGCQ, the current situation is even worse.  

Most of the country is actually on the least restrictive MGCQ. 

 

https://rappler.com/nation/duterte-order-coronavirus-quarantine-restrictions-september-2020

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8 hours ago, payxibka said:

Most of the country is actually on the least restrictive MGCQ. 

 

https://rappler.com/nation/duterte-order-coronavirus-quarantine-restrictions-september-2020

Most of the country is basically screwed up and lost.

 

You even have barangay captians trying to do their own quarantine and lockdown.  If some gets COVID on a street, they are locking down the whole block.

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On 8/9/2020 at 2:13 AM, Cody&Razely said:

from my understanding of readin it, it would seem they are saying that the Foreign Spouse even in the US, must attempt to get a Philippines visa via the Philippines Consulate in the US BUT the PH is not issuing Visa's to any foreigners. 

 

It seems the PH Gov. has taken a turn recently to find ways to bar entry, do lockdowns and such as they would like but doing things as this in such a way they it does not carry the titles. Basically being bureaucratic @&$% Bags. Good Job PH Gov. 👎 Because if the world needs one thing more than the Incompetent joke of leaderships and fear mongers, it's definitely more bureaucratic D-bags, right? 

I like EVERYONE else spend thousands when we are there. What the hell are they doing?

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On 9/4/2020 at 8:16 PM, payxibka said:

The least restrictive level is MGCQ (not GCQ) followed by GCQ then MECQ and the top level is ECQ.

How could that ever confuse anyone?))))

Not a newbie but lost my old info years ago) I have been through this process before --all the way through naturalization-- This site has always been a great help to me. 

 

 

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I wonder if anyone has tried traveling WITH their spouse an one of these 9a visas issued by the consulate. 

Not a newbie but lost my old info years ago) I have been through this process before --all the way through naturalization-- This site has always been a great help to me. 

 

 

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13 hours ago, boris64 said:

I wonder if anyone has tried traveling WITH their spouse an one of these 9a visas issued by the consulate. 

Unless you are trying to move there or stay long term I just don't see anyone trying this.

 

Endless quarantines await you at each destination until you reach your final destination in the Philippines.

 

 

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