When my wife & I married in The Philippines in Oct 2024, I brought with me the original divorce decree from my prior marriage and 1 apostilled copy of the divorce decree, 1 apostilled copy of my birth certificate & 1 apostilled copy of my passport, along with 2 more more copies of everything listed above. You need a notarized affidavit for legal capacity for contract to marriage, notarized at the US embassy, which you need to set up for an appointment before your trip there. And a certificate from the pre-marriage counseling seminar, right before you get the marriage certificate started and sent off to get authorized, which takes 10 business days to get back, not counting holidays. Your fiancé needs a CENOMAR (certificate of no marriage) if she never has been married before & official copies of her birth certificate from the PSA for the marriage certificate. It was recommended to me that it takes a minimum of 3 weeks to get all of that done with a very tight window. I took 4 weeks off to be safe & I'm glad that I did because we had to reschedule the seminar for 3 days later than we wanted, as they only did it on Fridays where she lives & on top of that we had a typhoon that came 3-4 days before the scheduled wedding while we were waiting for the marriage certificate to get back. Stressful to say the least, but we got it done and had a beautiful wedding. I watched You tube videos and read a lot about it online, before my trip, which helped it a lot.
My wife & I were married in the Philippines on October 4 2024.I just filed our I-130 spouse visa today. It took just over a month to get the marriage certificate from PSA. I had 15 areas of extra evidence and hoping for the best.