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Good, then why don't you go get your kids?

Oh.. I am planning to go there with my husband or just my husband. Since it's not easy to travel with two kids with me alone. We are still planning.

It appears you have not filed for AOS. Why not?

Hi, good luck! so your husband is bringing your kids? are they your children both? that's no problem if they are both your kids. just bring the documents that he is the father bringing the children to the USA.

But if the 2 kids are from your first marriage you have to get from DSWD a permit, bringing minors to the US.

Thank you so much for info. Godbless ?

Picking-up my children to come to the US on follow-to-join

Hello Everyone,

I'm a K1 visa holder living in the US for 10 months. My children in the Philippines just received their US visa. My husband is planning on going to the Philippines and bringing them back to the US. He will travel without me. Is he allowed to pick them up and bring them back to the US without me? Are there any US or Philippine requirements for doing this? My children are 12 and 8 yrs old. Thank you for all your help.

Update: We got approved on our interview Jan.28,2013. The date when the judge made decision is the effective date for the process not the date when the certificate of finality and NSO annotated certificate of marriage are completed. Thank you all and God Bless.

There is another couple that just recently posted on VJ also about not having their certificate of finality before filing the 129f petition. And there is another couple that got there petition returned to USCIS by the embassy in Manila because her annulment was not completed before they started the 129f petition, which is a denial by USEM. Free to marry means just that, if you were to re-marry in the Phils and needed a CENOMAR from NSO would you be able to get one before the certificate of finality? Therein is your answer, and I think it is NO. If you were NOT free to marry BEFORE filing the 129f petition and USCIS approves the petition odds are USEM will deny and return the petition to USCIS.

Hello Hank, thank you for reply.. can u give me the link of the persons that got denied on their petition? please if u can.. maybe i can ask them a questions.. please... thanks a lot..

The United States Embassy in Manila recently launched a "Walang Sikreto" (No Secret) campaign to let Filipinos know that there is no secret formula to getting a US visa.

In an email to GMA News Online, Tina Malone, Information Officer of the US Embassy, said: "There really is no secret or special formula to getting a US visa."

The "Walang Sikreto" campaign, launched on October 16, aims to deter fraudulent individuals who are preying on Filipinos applying for a US visa.

The campaign aims to make Filipinos aware that the official and best source of information about US visas is the website of the US Embassy.

Malone said the embassy launched the campaign because Filipinos fall prey to scammers as they try to get a US visa.

"Too many Filipinos get scammed by sending money to individuals whom they have never met, who promise to arrange visa interviews, but the visa interview never materializes," she said.

Visa fixers

Malone said in the past, the US Embassy focused its efforts on catching visa applicants who have used visa fixers.

In most of the cases, the applicants borrowed money to pay visa fixers but did not receive a visa.

However, the US Embassy realized that it was better to get to the root of the problem.

"[W]e have decided to emphasize greater prevention in protecting Filipino applicants from losing their money and becoming permanently barred from traveling to the United States by using visa fixers or being scammed," Malone explained.

"Walang Sikreto"

In an earlier news release, the US Embassy said the "Walang Sikreto" campaign has four goals:

To encourage "honest application" when it comes to seeking a US visa;

To warn against "visa fixers" who charge illegal fees;

To urge the public to be more aware of fraud, and

To send a call of action to the public to seek more information and report any anomalies in visa operations.

Most of the targets of visa scams are tourists, students, and aspiring temporary workers who are usually gullible to "surefire formulas," the US Embassy noted.

What to avoid

Malone warned the public that if something "sounds too good to be true, it isn't true."

She said there several scamming styles but one stands out as the most common modus operandi.

"An individual, "a friend of a friend," or a travel agent promises or guarantees to get someone a U.S. visa. The visa fixer charges the individual 20,000 to 100,000 pesos or more to help the individual," she said.

"In many of the visa scams you will never meet the person. All contact will be through the phone or e-mail," she added.

Malone also mentioned that visa fixers usually claim to have a contact inside the Embassy who will help you get your visa.

"Don't believe them!" she warned.

"In the end, the visa applicant [who trusts scammers] loses all of his or her money and ends up being banned permanently from traveling to the United States," she said.

Go to US Embassy website

To prevent being scammed, Malone said applicants should go to the embassy website and use the information and resources there to apply for a visa.

"The US Embassy wants to help you in this process. Use our Embassy website manila.usembassy.gov to apply for your visa," she said.

"Help us help you by being honest in applying for your visa," she added.

"Do not use an agency or individual who makes special promises or guarantees to get you a visa or encourages you to lie or misrepresent yourself," she said.

http://www.gmanetwor...tting-a-us-visa

Hello, Goodmorning...

can i asked you some question maybe u know somebody had the same situation like mine... I am so worried about our petition.. I just wanna ask if there's someone here who got a RFE from VSC for NSO annotated MC? I was annuled, i included my court decision on our petition and we had NOA1 april 23. Court decision dated March 20,2012, Certificate of Finality July 2, 2012 and Annotated Marriage Certificate from NSO they put the court decision March 20,2012.. They never put the date of Certificate of Finality on NSO annotated MC... Do you know of a situation where someone from the philippines was denied because their certificate of finality was after the NOA1 date? I posted here on Vj a week ago and everybody was keep telling me that my application is subject to denial because im not free to marry yet.. Makes me stressed out, depressed and so sad after all the waiting, i'm just expecting the denial from the USCIS.. Court decision declared my previous marriage as null and void and signed by presiding judge. We thought that was fine and i just have to bring all other required documents (Certificate of Finality and NSO Annotated Marriage Certificate) to the interview. Please any help info would be greatly appreciated... Thank you..

Hi Wally,this is caduceus37 ,i forgot my password for my caduceus37 account so i made a new account:)

How are ou and your wife? i hope your wife is feeling better now.im doing fine,getting used to their culture here hahahaha,well,my in laws also lives here in Florida,10 minutes drive from our house here,they are very nice,but im kind of shy at times hehehehe.my daughter continues here Taekwondo martial arts training here in Florida,i am glad the master likes her performance and she is going to compete in Orlando next week.my only complain is the tuition is so expensive compare in our country...here am i again,converting dollars into peso and complain how expensive here in the U.s. ,my husband always tells me don't compare peso into peso hahaha..

Oh,we are waiting for our marriage cert.in mail,then that's the time my husband will file for my AOS,he will talk to his atty.my question is,once we got married,i don't need to worry for my 90 days period visa no more right?? or needs to file AOS before the expiration of visa? confused , well!!! Here i am again hehehe,asking questions even im here in Florida already hahaha..

What is Advance Parole form? i never heard about it,i'm glad you mentioned it,i will ask my husband when gets home tonight.

yeah,i cant work,boring but its ok,i read medical book everyday,and watch Filipino movies when get tired hehehe...my husband is very happy when you gave us the link.he said he really appreciate your help:)

my daughter will start school next week,i hope she can make friend

Wow,your wife is very lucky to have a Jollibee there..im jealous hahahahaha...we bought some Filipino foods also,as usual,complaining of the prices.

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Yes,my husband wants to retire in our country after 5 or 10 years hahahaha...he loves philippines.wow 20mil.is alot of money in our country,you be come very rich hehehehe...i dont think we can save that much money.i wish!!!

i hope i can work as a nurse when i get my Green card.but still need to pass the nclex exams.

here's my email address michelle.velascoph@hotmail.com

Hello, I read this long conversation. and hope u could give me some advice about my concern.. Makes me depressed and worried a lot.. We filed k-1 visa and got NOA1 april 23, the nbi clearance that i included to application and the name i used to my passport is my full real name since i never use my x-husbands last name even when we are married and i put single since i am processing my annulment that time and soon to be as single.. You think i will get deny because of putting my civil status as single? Was thinking that it was okay since i am applying for K-1 visa and needs to be single.. I also included my court decision w/o certificate of finality. They say i'm not free to marry yet.. But the date on my Annotated Marriage Certificate from NSO is the court decision date, though the certificate of finality is july 2.. Do you know of a situation where someone from the philippines was denied because their certificate of finality was after the NOA1 date? or because the passport is single and the nbi clearance is single? I'm really hopeless i don't want to be denied we have been waiting for almost 6months and expecting to have our NOA2 by nextweek.. Hope to hear from you soon.. Thank you..

Hi caduceus

Welcome to USA. How are you, your daughter and hubby doing. How was your flight and POE? Hope the weather is treating you well in Florida : )

Hello, I read this long conversation. and hope u could give me some advice about my concern.. Makes me depressed and worried a lot.. We filed k-1 visa and got NOA1 april 23, the nbi clearance that i included to application and to my passport is my full real name since i never use my x-husbands last name even when we are married and i put single since i am processing my annulment that time and soon to be as single.. You think i will get deny because of putting my civil status as single? Was thinking that it was okay since i am applying for K-1 visa and needs to be single.. I also included my court decision w/o certificate of finality. They say i'm not free to marry yet.. But the date on my Annotated Marriage Certificate from NSO is the court decision date, though the certificate of finality is july 2.. Do you know of a situation where someone from the philippines was denied because their certificate of finality was after the NOA1 date? or because the passport is single and the nbi clearance is single? I'm really hopeless i don't want to be denied we have been waiting for almost 6months and expecting to have our NOA2 by nextweek.. Hope to hear from you soon..

sorry for not being clear with the AKA, my fiance's birth certificate have different last name from the NBI, example. on her Birth her name is this "jenny lyn d**** eva***" then on her NBI "jenny lyn d**** bal******", she is now leaving with step dad. on her birth cert she have the real dad last name and she is a late register, and on nbi she have the step dad last name, we received the 221g NBI WITH AKA, they just wanted a new NBI WITH HER 2 names, jenny lyn d e aka jenny lyn d b...

does this make sense??

Oh.. ok... I understand now.. Thank you..

We hope things will continue to go well for you both.. Congratulations and Best wishes..

Congratulations! We were so happy to read that things are going well for you and the one you love just want to ask. I got my NBI clearance w/o AKA.. So it means its not valid?

In your case I would say give USCIS what they ask for - the NSO annotated MC, then cross your fingers and wait. Not sure they will go by the court date of the NSO date when determining "free to marry".

Thank u so much.. the court date of NSO is march 20 and we filed april. so i gues it will be fine... I'M HOPING :dance:

I just wanna ask if there's someone here who got a RFE from VSC for NSO annotated MC? I was annuled, i only included my court decision on our petition, we had NOA1 april 23. Does anybody knows of a situation where someone from the philippines was denied because their certificate of finality was after the NOA1 date? I posted yesterday here on Vj and everybody keep telling me that my application is subject to denial because im not free yet to marry.. Makes me stressed out and so sad after all the waiting and now i'm just expecting the denial from USCIS.. Court decision declared my previous marriage as null and void and signed by presiding judge. We thought it was fine and i just have to bring all other required documents (Certificate of Finality and NSO annotated marriage certificate) to the interview. Please any help info would be greatly appreciated... Thank you..

Just recieved a request for evidence (RFE). My fillipina fiance was previously married and we hired a lawyer and recieved a judgement of annullment. I sent the court judgement with my application.

The RFE says they recieved the judgement and it is ok, however they are asking for a document from the National Statistics Office (NSO) substantiating the annullment. They are also saying the document must have a "Court documents and Legal Instruments endorsment"

Has anybody had to get one of these? It sounds like it should be easy but I don't know.

Any advice would be appreciated

I just wanna ask if there's someone here who got a RFE from VSC for NSO annotated MC? I was annuled, i only included my court decision on our petition, we had NOA1 april 23. Does anybody knows of a situation where someone from the philippines was denied because their certificate of finality was after the NOA1 date? I posted yesterday here on Vj and everybody keep telling me that my application is subject to denial because im not free yet to marry.. Makes me stressed out and so sad after all the waiting and now i'm just expecting the denial from USCIS.. Court decision declared my previous marriage as null and void and signed by presiding judge. We thought it was fine and i just have to bring all other required documents (Certificate of Finality and NSO annotated marriage certificate) to the interview. Please any help info would be greatly appreciated... Thank you..

Dean_De has correct answer! Having a court judgement / finality of the annulment is not enough. It has to be annotated in the previous marriage contract. Also, this must be printed out in security paper issued by NSO.

I just wanna ask if there's someone here who got a RFE from VSC for NSO annotated MC? I was annuled, i only included my court decision on our petition, we had NOA1 april 23. Does anybody knows of a situation where someone from the philippines was denied because their certificate of finality was after the NOA1 date? I posted yesterday here on Vj and everybody keep telling me that my application is subject to denial because im not free yet to marry.. Makes me stressed out and so sad after all the waiting and now i'm just expecting the denial from USCIS.. Court decision declared my previous marriage as null and void and signed by presiding judge. We thought it was fine and i just have to bring all other required documents (Certificate of Finality and NSO annotated marriage certificate) to the interview. Please any help info would be greatly appreciated... Thank you..

Correct. The annulment is not complete until you receive the annotated marriage contract from the NSO. Until duly registered, the person is neither free nor legal to re-marry, which is one of the requirements of filing for a K1 or spousal petition.

Most attorneys consider their work finished when the Decree of Annulment is issued by the court. The registration of the Decree with the LCR's and NSO is typically left up to the client to accomplish on their own, as it basically involves the transportation of documents from one place to the other. (and about 6-8 months)

Often times these final "do it by yourself" steps are not completely understood by the client and immigration petitions are filed prematurely, and even civil marriages have known to have been performed prior to receiving the annotated NSO. In the later case, overlapping dates of marriage appear on the CEMAR/CENOMAR which causes big trouble at the Embassy, more delay and attorney fees to straighten out.

NANCY & DAVEY: RTC = Regional Trial Court. equivalent to County Civil Court in the US of Ache.

I just wanna ask if there's someone here who got a RFE from VSC for NSO annotated MC? I was annuled, i only included my court decision on our petition, we had NOA1 april 23. Does anybody knows of a situation where someone from the philippines was denied because their certificate of finality was after the NOA1 date? I posted yesterday here on Vj and everybody keep telling me that my application is subject to denial because im not free yet to marry.. Makes me stressed out and so sad after all the waiting and now i'm just expecting the denial from USCIS.. Court decision declared my previous marriage as null and void and signed by presiding judge. We thought it was fine and i just have to bring all other required documents (Certificate of Finality and NSO annotated marriage certificate) to the interview. Please any help info would be greatly appreciated... Thank you..

Your petition will be denied. You were not free to marry at the time you sent in the I-129F, and that is a requirement. You could withdraw the petition now and file a new one now instead of waiting for the denial before starting again.

Court decision declared my previous marriage as null and void and signed by presiding judge. We thought it was fine and bring all other required documents to the interview.. Thanks to all who responded to my question with helpful info. My fiancee and i decided to just wait until next week since its almost 6 months and see if we get RFE for certification of finality or get denied, its not that long to know about it anyway... Good news/Bad news my fiancee will go to our attorney and we look at options.. We never found it easy to be in a long-distance relationship...but when we've found each other and we wanted to spend the rest of our life with, never felt that we had any choice except to find a way to be together, and stay together.

And you will be together, that's not the issue, the only unfortunate part is that it may take a little bit longer than anticipated. You will get there though! Just out of curiosity, did you say that you had a lawyer helping you with the petition? If so, he/she should have known this.

Yes we had attorney but she didn't say anything about it..

Court decision declared my previous marriage as null and void and signed by presiding judge. We thought it was fine and bring all other required documents to the interview.. Thanks to all who responded to my question with helpful info. My fiancee and i decided to just wait until next week since its almost 6 months and see if we get RFE for certification of finality or get denied, its not that long to know about it anyway... Good news/Bad news my fiancee will go to our attorney and we look at options.. We never found it easy to be in a long-distance relationship...but when we've found each other and we wanted to spend the rest of our life with (L) never felt that we had any choice except to find a way to be together, and stay together. :)

ive been to this process but i didnt start the process until i got my NSO annotated, VJ helped me a lot and bunches patience of waiting...im sending good luck to your journey,

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.. Makes me cry we have to re-file the petition all over again.. seems like endless

Yes, Finality or Entry of Judgment states marriage is Void ab Initio (will be last docs you'll get from the court). They'll also annoted your original Marriage Certificate with Null and Void. Then you'll take to the Local Civil Registry to get the Certified Copy. It doesn't end there, you'll need to take those docs to NSO where they transfer the Marriage Certificate to a special paper. These will take up to a month or more to process. If you haven't done all that or if you've hired an Atty to do it for you then techically you're not free to marry and you're not eligible to file I-129F

Good luck, USCIS and NVC might overlooked it but USEM will catch up (I've seen it happened to a couple of members here recently) and will give you automatic denial even after you've paid your visa and medical fees.

I got my Certificate of finality and annotated MC from NSO done last july 2012.. Our application accepted April 23. So sad to think that our application might be subject to a denial.. after all the waiting

Sounds logical, do not apply till you have the proper documents.

i only included my court decision on our petition just to save some months waiting while processing the other annulment papers that i need. We supposed to get our NOA2 nextweek, so sad..

Does anybody knows of a situation where someone from the philippines was denied because their certificate of finality was after the NOA1 date? Please

We just got our Petition approved and we sent

1) Court Decision (signed by judge)

2) Certificate of finality

and

3) annotated MC from NSO

and got no RFE's.

Keep in mind that hopefully the date of Certificate of finality is dated before the date of the petition. There have been some cases where people have run into problems because they were not free to marry because their Certificate of finality was issued after they filed the petition.

Example my loved one's decision was issued Oct 10th,2011 but her Certificate of Finality was issued Jan 29th,2012 so we filed in Feb. Because the court decision is just that a court decision. The annulment is not final until the Certificate of Finality is issued.

Thank you so much for your help i appreciate it.. Do you have any idea why your approval for NOA2 was longer than the average? Was it because of the previous marriage and the annulment situation? Do you know of a situation where someone from the philippines was denied because their certificate of finality was after the NOA1 date? Hope to hear from you soon..

Hello Everybody! I just wanna ask if there's someone here who got a RFE from VSC for NSO annotated MC? I was annuled, i only included my court decision on our petition just to save some months waiting while processing the other annulment papers that i need. Our application accepted April 23. I got my Certificate of finality and annotated MC from NSO.. Just wondering is that the final paper that USCIS need? I kinda worried that i will get RFE for that.

I myself was annuled we only included my finality and court decision on our petition now i get worried we will get the same RFE..but anyways if she has already her finality she can go to LCR where she got married to register it will take around a week, then bring those documents from LCR to NSO east avenue quezon city it will take three weeks from there, then bring the NSO annotated MC to RTC for the final decree, approximately will take a month to complete everything...goodluck!

Hello, just wanted to ask.. I got my NSO annotated MC.. just wondering what is RTC? and for the final decree? is that the final paper that USCIS need? I hope to hear from you soon.. And Thank you...

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