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You do not need a calling card to call the USA numbers unless you phone service doesn't have long distance included.
I just call the first USA number, it rang immediately... of course at this hour no one answered.

Those are the numbers I have
local number: 632-301-2000 extension 5184 or 5185,
(632) 982-5555 or (632) 902-8930.
** (214) 571-1600 or (646) 254-3546 (these are USA numbers)
http://manila.usembassy.gov/contact.html

Yes, the passport works just fine.

You can open the plastic pouch where the passport was placed but never the visa packet which is the yellow envelope
Your nbi and police clearance can serve as an id.. Dont forget to photocopy it

I would say that its possible, but not desirable. If something goes wrong . . . let say that the person in charge of doing one job or another is absent and did not designate a replacement - then you don't have the stamp or signature. Some similar happened to us on a local level when we were recovering from an administrative error on our marriage license. You would be, in my opinion, cutting it way too close. Without that stamp/signature in her passport - game over you lose! You will watch your flight take off and there is nothing you can do about it. If you do decide to do it this way, just make sure that there are no holidays or religious festivals scheduled for that day. I would recommend just flying her up to Manila/Cebu early in the morning, have her get it done, and fly her back that evening. Thats what I did, it worked like a charm. Rescheduling a local airline trip to Manila is MUCH cheaper than missing 2 flights . . . Just my opinion . . .
Warm Regards,
Mark and Rassel!

i dunno what kang is smoking but i didnt marry my fiancee to escape poverty..
i think it is also rude to call petitioners as whoremongers.

CFO:


ALL exiting required to attend. There have been changes regarding CFO so for sure read through their website.
Update: Please check the schedule of the counseling session before proceeding to CFO because it is country-specific and the slots are limited only to 15 per session (exception: Tuesday & Thursday mornings there are 30 slots). It is on a first-come-first-serve basis.
CFO Online Registration Form: http://www.cfo.gov.p...trationform.pdf Complete this and print a couple copies to bring to the CFO seminar, it will save you time.
http://www.philembas...w_gcp_flyer.pdf
http://www.cfo.gov.p...onals&catid=140
Required documents & "OTHER DOCUMENTS" they ask for at CFO: copies of; CENOMAR, certified birth certificate, bio page of passport, visa page from passport, pictures together. From USC (copies of) - bio page of passport, birth certificate, divorce decree (if been married before) are the most common requests. The "other documents" clause can be ANYTHING with those nit-wits at CFO.
** From the Family Code of the Philippines: it's 21-25 years old for advice and 18-21 years old for consent. (Some are posted on VJ that they were not asked for this, yet others have been asked, so be prepared)
Art. 14. In case either or both of the contracting parties, not having been emancipated by a previous marriage, are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, they shall, in addition to the requirements of the preceding articles, exhibit to the local civil registrar, the consent to their marriage of their father, mother, surviving parent or guardian, or persons having legal charge of them, in the order mentioned. Such consent shall be manifested in writing by the interested party, who personally appears before the proper local civil registrar, or in the form of an affidavit made in the presence of two witnesses and attested before any official authorized by law to administer oaths. The personal manifestation shall be recorded in both applications for marriage license, and the affidavit, if one is executed instead, shall be attached to said applications. (61a)
Art. 15. Any contracting party between the age of twenty-one and twenty-five shall be obliged to ask their parents or guardian for advice upon the intended marriage. If they do not obtain such advice, or if it be unfavorable, the marriage license shall not be issued till after three months following the completion of the publication of the application therefor.A sworn statement by the contracting parties to the effect that such advice has been sought,together with the written advice given, if any, shall be attached to the application for marriage license. Should the parents or guardian refuse to give any advice, this fact shall be stated in the sworn statement.

You can leave any time BEFORE the expiration date of your visa.

Dowry is not being practice in Philippines. What's common is lifetime support to all of the extended family for hospital bills, tuition fees, electric bills, etc. You are expected to be everyone's emergency fund because you're the Kano and you have the money so it's your responsibility to redistribute your wealth. This is especially true for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) or from somebody who's married to a foreigner. How much you give will depend on how good your future wife is at handling family pressure and has nothing to do with how much you can afford.
Check out this link, http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/232940-financial-support-to-my-wifes-family-in-the-philippines/.

You have cited zero data in making this assertion. The last article said nothing about domestic abuse statistics. Four in a row so far.
I guess you are counting on us not being able to read, or just immensely stupid.
You are doing just that, and without data to support it.
We aren't a herd of cows, so probably not likely.

I'm just so glad you revealed your true self after showing you have no evidence for your claims. Calling the husbands here "whoremongers" and the women therefore prostitutes.
This is an important insight into the rescue industry and feminazis: what they are really all about is hatred of pretty typical people on this forum. They pretend something else with these vague but incendiary terms like "human trafficking" and "marriage brokers".
That's why it is important not to let them get away with lying about domestic abuse statistics and lying with phony rhetoric.
Here is an alarming article with some actual data in it on domestic abuse in the Philippines:
My link
That was a 91% increase over the previous year. That was quoted from the 2010 Human Rights Watch report, which was produced in 2011. I just looked up the summary report for 2011 here:
2011 report Human Rights Watch
Not one word about foreign marriages and abuse. Instead, there is a section on domestic workers being abused abroad. Kang obviously has no concern about abuse of Filipinas because if that were true she would be looking at the appalling Philippine statistics and the plight of domestic workers, and not wives who don't even get the attention of reports by human rights watch.
Now of course Kang is pretending that we are saying there has never been any case, ever, of a Filipina abused by a foreign husband. That's the tactic of people with hidden agendas: to misrepresent what other people are saying.
Interesting that Kang has no timeline, no country, no talk of her own immigration situation that I can see from previous posts. I didn't look through all of them, but most of us who actually are involved in immigration talk a lot about our spouses and our own situation. Makes you wonder what is really going on.

I knew it!
Your propaganda was mimicking the feminazi tactic of saying women who choose to stay at home and raise children are abused. A home-maker is submissive.
Even though it is entirely their choice, you keep repeating how much you hate men who have "submissive" wives.
You have a lot of hatred inside you, obviously.
This hatred lays bare another arm of the anti-immigration coalition: the feminazis. I don't have any problem with their hatred for men, who cares. But just don't expect us to marry you when we have millions of beautiful women worldwide who appreciate a man that provides for them.
That's what makes them so angry: the competition blows them out of the water. Comes down to jealosy and envy.

Sorry but i don't buy this story, women all over the world want a partner that has money or is well off. This is not unique to the philippines in fact you can find it all over America! haha, of course people want to better their economic situation.
I'm near poorer areas and i don't have women throwing themselves at me here in the philippines. Its just not fact

Actually, if she is on an F-1 visa, she will not be out of status for 60 days past when she stops attending classes. An M-1 is given 30 days after they stop attending classes before they are out of status. So if they submit the I-130 within this 30-60 day period of her quitting school, everything is fine and YES she can stop attending classes.

NO. Being married to a US citizen alone gives her absolutely no special status in the US. She is still on a student visa, and will be out of status the moment she stops attending classes. Being out of status could land her in removal proceedings whether or not she's married.
Being married to a US citizen does give her the option to file for adjustment of status - a process in which she can legally adjust status from student to permanent resident. Once her and her husband file for adjustment of status, she can abandon her student status, and remain lawfully in the country while the process is ongoing (give it about 6 months).
Here's what they do:
1. File form I-130, I-485, I-751 (optional - allows her to work once approved) and I-131 (optional - allows her to travel once approved) at the same time.
2. Wait.
3. Receive work authorization/travel authorization.
4. Go to adjustment of status interview.
5. Receive green card.

had a friend who advised me if i wanted to get an earlier schedule call the USEM because you cant see the earlier dates available online, she got an Oct 5 schedule and was able to resched on Sept. 7. i will also be doing the same thing and hope it'll work. Hope this might give you a little help