Pinay Wife

Is the USEM issuing work visas for RNs?

Was your friend sponsored by a business in the U.S.?

The US issues H1-B visa for specialty occupation like nurses. Hospitals or other medical care facilities are the petitioners.

I doubt it. Filipinos, in general, are very sensitive...especially to foreigners trying to intimidate them. It is understandable due to the years of occupation and oppression from the Spanish, the Japanese and the Americans.

Punching someone, in the manner he described, would likely result in a stabbing or shooting. People can easily disappear in the smaller barangays. My advice is definitely keep a low profile, especially in the provinces. An arrogant and cocky American doesn't impress the oldschool folk.

Couldn't have said it any better.

Serve them right. I hope they rot in jail.

There is no way to know how long an investigation could take. Below are possible reasons for suspicion of fraud in employment-sponsored petitions:

2. Employment-Sponsored Petitions:

a. Claim of False Experience As Skilled Worker:

Applications for labor certification with the Department of Labor and Immigrant Petitions for Alien Workers (Form I-140) include supporting documentation on prior experience in the Philippines, which is non-existent and false.

b. Non-existent Offer of Employment:

Another fraudulent practice is to have a prospective employer in the United States file a labor certification application for an offer of employment only on paper and not in reality, and a Form I-140 petition for an alien beneficiary in the Philippines.

Fraudulent claims and petitions cannot be tolerated, and can only haunt beneficiaries, who may ultimately be deprived of immigration benefits, when the fraud is discovered and the status revoked.

Coming to the US with CR1, does it matter if i carry my maiden name on my passport or should I carry a passport with my spouse' last name?

When travelling, it is best that your passport, visa and plane ticket are all under the same name. Less hassle that way.

Having said that, as long as you can prove with marriage certificate and other documents that you are one and the same person, it really does not matter.

does it take long to take a cert of attendance? thanks for your reply.

Less than a day.

Check here:

http://www.cfo.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=329&Itemid=78

Good day! I recently got married in the Philippines to an American and my passport will expire by Mar 2011. I am coming back to the US (using my tourist visa) this November 2010 and I guess I needed to renew my passport. I don't have my marriage certificate available yet. Am I allowed to use my married name or should I still use my maiden name on my new passport?

You may still use your maiden name if you do not declare your marriage. Once you declare you are married to an American, you will be required to submit Certificate of Attendance from CFO in addition to the usual requirements.

http://epassport.com.ph/info/requirements/for/renewal

St. Lukes will not accept x-rays done by other hospitals even if it is new but your fiancee will need to list down when she had her last x-ray. Usual purpose for x-ray is physical exam so she can state that as reason.

your last name is "landing strip" - all this time i thought that was something gals too chicken for brazil wax did.

Brazil wax is not for the sissy hence the last name "landing strip"

edited to add: With apologies to TCO for making fun of his surname.

So what if you know my last name? Big Deal.

I said inside the airport in Davao. Get to go thru both screeners, the one at the front door and the one at the gate. I can promise you have never gotten your family inside the last screener at the gate

Still picking on little 'ol me? No response at all to rlogan?

Anyway, I promise you, I can get my entire barangay inside an airport up to the last gate, and I'm talking NAIA here, not some airport in Mindanao, although I can manage to do that too. I can even arrange to have a private jet land on a private landing strip...... landing strip.... landing strip.... hmmm.... does that sound like the surname of someone you know, TCO?

Now, that's the kind of connection I'm talking about.

Anyway, while I have never been to Davao, my husband has and he likes it there. Would like to go visit one day and see the monkey.

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I am "Golden" in Davao. When I go to Davao Airport, I am allowed to have my friends and family with me, and they are allowed to enter the airport with me and stay with me until my flight leaves. I get extra special treatment in Davao. Cuz it's all about who you know and whom you are with.

You call that special treatment, Golden boy? Wow, most everybody can do that. I can actually have the entire barangay see me off at the airport if I wanted to. But fanfare is not for those who are secure in their being. It is reserved for the insecure.

I'll give you a tip. You can have yourself pre-checked at the airport. Someone will check you in for your flight, check in your luggage, so you don't have to carry it around with you (big shots don't carry their luggage, you know). That allows you to spend more time with your family at the mansion. You then arrive at the airport a few minutes prior to flight time where you are handed your boarding pass (airplanes wait for the big shots, not the other way around), you board your plane, and off you go, without the crying drama of relatives and friends.

Now, that's what I call VIP treatment.

edited to add: But not all can qualify for VIP treatment. You need to be in the right social strata, be of very good moral character, and of course, the right connections (and it's not the Mayor type of connections, mind you)

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself ~ Abraham Lincoln

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle ~ Benjamin Franklin

It is always the secure who are humble ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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You have no response at all to rlogan, the blackbelter?

You pick on poor me, who is half your size and only a third of your weight?

Way to go, little one! Living up to your name!

But people on this forum are going to be over there and in the chance someone has read such things and takes them seriously then there is real risk of serious harm coming to them by adopting the attitude you are suggesting.

So very true! TCO thinks that just because he's been to the Philippines twice or thrice that he knows the temperament of the people. x x *edited *x x. If you're white, and you are in Mindanao, you'd better keep a low profile.

edited to remove an unwarranted statement

What I was taught if you are an American in Philippines and someone comes up to you and trys to start $hit with you, or they are acting funny. Then you need to immediately punch the person in the face as hard as you can.

You're all talk. Why don't you try to do that the next time you go to the Philippines and then come back here (if you are alive) and tell us all about it.

And careful who you punch there, especially in Davao. If you hit one of the mayor's relatives or friends, then you're marked, especially if you are an arrogant, cocky white man. You know macho Filipino guys, they like to brag when they put an "ugly American" in his place. They put your face in the papers with the widest circulation for the whole Phiippines to see.

Objectionable and sexist post and another quoting it removed.

Original poster of the sexist photo is banned from posting again in this thread.

I apologize for the hijacking of your thread, Dhel29. But thank you for your patience and for being a good sport.

I personally like Samantha Nicole.

If another Mod is reading this thread, please feel free to remove posts (even my post) if you feel there is a TOS violation.

I don't think I am capable of moderating as I am enjoying the thread.

If I ever get another screen name on VJ or another site I will keep that one in mind

Another great name would be Jack Ash Oh my goodness! I'm really ROTFLOL!!!

Thanks for the laugh Cutie Patootie and TCO.

The expecting mother is asking suggestion for baby names... not some unpleasant phenomenon.

How about name your child, Ash Hewl

Cutie Patootie, that is so funny I am not sure if I should remove your post. Priceless!

Thank you Tahoma and Pinay Wife.

This is a great forum. It isn't excusable for me to be out of line with bad attitude. It is actually being a friend to me in pointing out when my attitude needs to be checked. The pain, drugs, and lack of sleep isn't an excuse but more of an explanation of why I am a little more in need of those kind of friends right now.

I wish there were more people like you.

“Humility makes great men twice honorable” ~ Benjamin Franklin.

Hi guys, I'm having a situation here and need your help...

My mother is planning to visit me sometimes in November to attend my labor - this would be her first visit to the U.S.

The problem is, she will travel alone and she doesn't speak English at all - she speak Indonesian Language.

I wonder if this could be a big problem at Houston port of entry??? Is there anyone from you know a story about non-English speaker in Houston port of entry?? Please share...

Nanggroe

There are usually translators at the airport. Have her carry with her a note that says "I don't speak English. I would need an Indonesian translator, please."

The Very Funny English Language

English, unless you grew up with its eccentricities, can be a rather difficult and confusing language to learn.

The rule is that the rule doesn't always rule.

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language

in which your house can burn up as it burns down,

in which you fill in a form by filling it out

and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

Why is it that whether you sit down or sit up, the results are the same?

It is only in the English language that people recite at a play and play at a recital.

When the stars are out, they are visible,

When the lights are out, they are invisible.

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

How can 'A Slim Chance' and 'A Fat Chance' be the same?

How can 'You're so cool' and 'You're not so hot' be different?

Why are 'A wise man' and 'A wise guy' opposites?

Although the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, we must be grateful for small mercies of the language that the feminine pronouns after 'She' don't become 'Shis' and 'Shim'.

The bandage was wound around the wound.

I did not object to the object.

The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

Boxing rings are square.

A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

The farm was used to produce produce.

English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.

If brother becomes Brethren, why doesn't mother become Methren?

If tooth becomes teeth, why doesn't booth become beeth?

If one goose becomes two geese, why doesn't one moose become two meese?

If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,

And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

How come Writers write but Fingers don't fing?

And Grocers don't groce and Hammers don't ham?

A box in the plural becomes boxes.

But an Ox in the plural never becomes oxes. (It becomes Oxen).

A lone mouse can transform into a whole set of mice,

But it's impossible for a single house to become a whole block of hice. (It becomes houses).

It's not ridiculous, but entirely sensible to ship by truck and send cargo by ship.

We are a strange lot to have noses that run and feet that smell.

How come you never hear of a combobulated, gruntled, ruly, or peccable person?

Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllable"?

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

The human race has been running for a great many centuries now - but we're not tired yet.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

So good luck people with our multi-cultural, multi-language marriages.

My right leg was crushed and broken in multiple places, both the tibia and fibia. Two operations over two days, the first three and a half hours. The second an hour and a half. Bone grafts, plates, screws -

I'm barely functioning, and don't mind admitting that. A lot of pain, a lot of pills, and not anything I can do except lay here. But the most I have slept in eight days is maybe an hour at most.

So I apologize. I'm probably completely incoherent, but am trying to do something to make the time pass. Pretty miserable situation, but not a reaszon to impose on others...

Get well soon, rlogan. I was actually surprised by your post. You are usually upbeat and optimistic. And then I saw your blog about the accident.

So, break a leg! (to my fellow Pinays, that means good luck in American idiom)