rheanick

Hi Binow...
Yup. we could be in the same plight.
I still have faith in the filipino culture. Still hope to find filipinos who are not chismosa and inggitera.

The only thing for both of you to do is to file for annullment. Even though your fiancee's husband is married to another person prior to their marriage and papers were submitted to NSO, your fiancee is legally married to him. She needs to file to void her marriage. Her main defense is his previous marriage.
She married a good-for-nothing person. She should legally get rid of her previous marriage to stop further damage on her life.

Summary of your data:
Petitioner: US Citizen
Petitioner Background: Filed K1 in 2008. Presently Divorced. Ex-wife has 10 year greencard
Your Question: Is there anything the Petitioner has to do before filing another K1 visa for a Filipina beneficiary?.
My answer: He could file for another K1 as long as he has all the required documents (i.e. divorce paper)
My personal advise for you. Get to know each other pretty well.

It isn't so! :rofl: :rofl:

Doing good. Typical ups and downs of marriage life.
Feedback from friends: Hubby and I look happy
Feedback of hubby on our relationship: He is recommending to his single friends that if they want someone to really take care of them they should consider a filipina wife. [My response to this comment, they have to get a responsible filipina coz bad ones still exist. ]
BTW, I am not my hubby's slave... i have maids that clean our house.

I think you would like this article... Be careful on what you thoughts of...
The Power of Thoughts: What You Focus on Grows
Posted on November 15, 2011 by Monica Magnetti
Power of Thoughts
We often underestimate the power of thoughts! Try paying attention to your thoughts for a moment. I’ll bet if you had a dollar for every time you thought about what you DON’T want in your personal life and your business life rather than what you DO want, you’d be a millionaire.
The power of thoughts is huge, much bigger and more influential in our lives than we think. When you focus on scarcity or what you don’t want in your personal life or your business life, that’s what you get. But when you focus on what’s plentiful or what you do want, that’s what you create, that’s what grows. You create the circumstances and experiences that validate everything you believe.
If you believe you’re going to fail, you probably will fail. On the other hand, if you believe you’re going to succeed in your personal life and your business life, the odds of succeeding increase dramatically. That’s the power of thoughts. Think of it as the act of painting a self-portrait. If you call the portrait “My Success,” the colours, brushstrokes and forms will be different than if you call it “My Failure.”
Imagine a blank canvas that represents your life. Now imagine a palette with all the types and colours of paint you want. The life you create on the canvas, using the paints you want, represents the power of thoughts. Every brushstroke is a thought. You are painting your personal life and your business life. And the choice of what you create is yours. How powerful do you want it to be?
When you embrace the radical act of living your personal life and your business life with intention, you are embracing the power of thoughts. Those thoughts are the fast route to your destination. Open your eyes with intention to the connection between your thoughts and the results they bring. Surrender to the reality that you can hold only one thought at a time. Which thought will it be?
Science has proven that our brain can hold only one thought at a time. What thoughts are you going to choose? Powerful thoughts or thoughts that keep you small and weaken your self-esteem? When you ignore the power of thoughts, you become your own worst enemy. But when you grasp your big, enthusiastic thoughts, your personal life and your business life begin to flow … smoothly, effortlessly.
Believe in yourself and what you want in your personal life and your business life. Take action with integrity and hold yourself accountable to the power of thoughts. In no time at all, you will find success becoming easier and easier.
Ask yourself, “Who am I when I have powerful thoughts? Who am I when I embrace thinking with my big mind?” Then make the choice … and choose to live your personal life and your business life with intention. Make peace with yourself and surrender to the power of thoughts.

I dont know you personally. And trying to make sure that people posting here about their random thoughs dont have OCD problem.
So you have a lot of free time and wants your thoughts out... Read the article....
Thought-action Fusion and OCD
Equating Thoughts With Actions May Cause OCD Symptoms
By Owen Kelly, Ph.D., About.com Guide
Updated August 22, 2010
OCD is a complex illness with many causes, including biological, psychological and social factors. A psychological process that may help cause and maintain OCD symptoms is thought-action fusion. Let’s explore the relationship between thought-action fusion and OCD symptoms.
What is Thought-Action Fusion?
Thought-action fusion is when you believe that simply thinking about an action is equivalent to actually carrying out that action. For example, if a thought randomly pops into your mind about something unacceptable -- such as murdering your partner -- you would believe this to just as bad as actually harming them.
Thought-action fusion can also lead people to believe that thinking about an unwanted event makes it more likely that the event will happen. For instance, you might think that by imagining a loved one dying in a car crash, it somehow increases the chances that this will actually happen.
Thought-action Fusion and OCD Symptoms
The degree to which someone with OCD is prone to thought-action fusion predicts how severe their OCD symptoms will be. This has led many to suggest that thought-action fusion could be a cause of OCD symptoms. Interestingly, thought-action fusion and OCD symptoms and could be linked by another psychological process called thought suppression. Although just about everyone experiences strange, bizarre or shocking thoughts throughout the day, if you have OCD, you may overreact to these “dangerous” thoughts by trying to suppress them, which only causes them to come back worse than before. Of course, this can lead to a vicious circle of more thought suppression followed by more distressing thoughts.
Thought-action fusion may promote thought suppression by making you feel that your thoughts are "dangerous." Indeed, if you believe that the thought of harming your partner popping into your head is equivalent to actually having harmed them, then understandably, this is a dangerous or threatening thought. In this way, thought-action fusion and thought suppression may work hand-in-hand to create distressing obsessions. And in turn, such obsessions can lead to debilitating compulsions, which are used as an attempt to neutralize or undo the feared outcome or thought.
Thought-action Fusion and OCD Treatment
Addressing thought-action fusion is a key component of many cognitive-behaviorally oriented psychological treatments for OCD. Although the imagined link between thoughts and actions is almost always illogical, if you have OCD it can sometimes be difficult to have insight into the irrationality of these thoughts. Therapy focuses, in part, on challenging the imagined link between thoughts and actions/outcomes through experiments or observation.
For example, if you are afraid that thinking about a bomb going off in your workplace makes it more likely that this will happen, you could intentionally think about this and then see if this feared outcome comes true or not. Although initially distressing, these types of experiments can help challenge beliefs about the link between thoughts and actions as well as make thought suppression less likely; indeed, if your thoughts are not actually dangerous, why push them away?
Behaviorally-oriented therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) also work to build flexibility in thinking rather than trying to eliminate distressing thoughts like obsessions using a variety of mindfulness techniques, metaphors and life enhancement exercises. ACT teaches clients to be less invested in their thoughts, which helps to avoid to the tendency to label thoughts as dangerous.

Are you thinking of petitioning a man later on?
Scary thoughts when you are just done petitioning your wife.

Darren,
You mentioned that gretchen's mom is a loaner. A person who likes to loan is hard to change. Loaners of this world love you if they could get something from you. Loaners dont care if you have dont have money or you did not eat to give them money. Loaners just want your money, period. And if you could not provide it, then you are the meanest and baddest person in earth.
I'm not blaming you fully on the events that unfolded, just partially.
Good luck on your marriage.
Gretchen has to learn how to handle money and make decisions for her family.

Darren,
You mentioned that gretchen's mom is a loaner. A person who likes to loan is hard to change. Loaners of this world love you if they could get something from you. Loaners dont care if you have dont have money or you did not eat to give them money. Loaners just want your money, period. And if you could not provide it, then you are the meanest and baddest person in earth.
I'm not blaming you fully on the events that unfolded, just partially.
Good luck on your marriage.
Gretchen has to learn how to handle money and make decisions for her family.

Darren,
You mentioned that gretchen's mom is a loaner. A person who likes to loan is hard to change. Loaners of this world love you if they could get something from you. Loaners dont care if you have dont have money or you did not eat to give them money. Loaners just want your money, period. And if you could not provide it, then you are the meanest and baddest person in earth.
I'm not blaming you fully on the events that unfolded, just partially.
Good luck on your marriage.
Gretchen has to learn how to handle money and make decisions for her family.

Darren,
You mentioned that gretchen's mom is a loaner. A person who likes to loan is hard to change. Loaners of this world love you if they could get something from you. Loaners dont care if you have dont have money or you did not eat to give them money. Loaners just want your money, period. And if you could not provide it, then you are the meanest and baddest person in earth.
I'm not blaming you fully on the events that unfolded, just partially.
Good luck on your marriage.
Gretchen has to learn how to handle money and make decisions for her family.

Darren,
You are experiencing the common activities of the people in the barrio.
With you flaunting your money and Gretchen's family announcing to the whole barrio that she landed a "big fish" or commonly term as "kano" you are IN for more money asking activities covering different type of emergencies in the near future. I put big fish under quotation coz no matter how poor or rich you are here in the US, the people from the barrio would always think of you as rich american.
How you handle your marriage life and Gretchen's family are none of my business. Just do whatever you and Gretchen think are proper to make your marriage work.

Darren,
You are experiencing the common activities of the people in the barrio.
With you flaunting your money and Gretchen's family announcing to the whole barrio that she landed a "big fish" or commonly term as "kano" you are IN for more money asking activities covering different type of emergencies in the near future. I put big fish under quotation coz no matter how poor or rich you are here in the US, the people from the barrio would always think of you as rich american.
How you handle your marriage life and Gretchen's family are none of my business. Just do whatever you and Gretchen think are proper to make your marriage work.

Darren,
You are experiencing the common activities of the people in the barrio.
With you flaunting your money and Gretchen's family announcing to the whole barrio that she landed a "big fish" or commonly term as "kano" you are IN for more money asking activities covering different type of emergencies in the near future. I put big fish under quotation coz no matter how poor or rich you are here in the US, the people from the barrio would always think of you as rich american.
How you handle your marriage life and Gretchen's family are none of my business. Just do whatever you and Gretchen think are proper to make your marriage work.

Talk with your husband. If UK has better opportunity and he agrees, then its UK instead of US.

So what is the sense of posting this thread? Any purpose on pointing this out?

So what is the sense of posting this thread? Any purpose on pointing this out?

Most of the electronics here in the US are made in China or should i say manufactured in China by the company who owns the rights to build them.
Made in China but originals ( if you are a filipino you know what this means) and Made in China but pirated (again if you are a filipino you know what this means) are totally different things.
If your tablets are pirated, fake, illegally manufactured in china.. i would be careful in bringing them to the US.
You could try bringing them. Anyway, you could be redundant by flying twice to the US coz you were ordered to return the first time due to your "made in china" tablets.

YES!!!
People have emotion. And emotion varies. There are ups and downs.
I'm starting to think that JR favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber.

Maryl,
Just tell your USC friend to withdraw the petion and re-file after the woman got her annulment done and annotated in her marriage certificate. Also, tell the filipina to straighten up her papers and life first, before she married your USC friend.
And once the filipina gets to the US, i would be very careful with her. She has an attitude that she would lie just to get what she wants. Starting a relationship with lies is not a good foundation for marriage.

The humorous side of "supporting extended family" idea is that when the immediate family members (i.e parents, siblings) does not expect supports from USC but the relatives (i.e. uncles, aunts and cousins) expect that the USC supports them since their niece is married to him. This scenario really shows the leeches and parasites in filipino families.

Another source of fund without accumulating any interest is to reinvest your capital gains. If your wife has other investment, the capital gains from these investment can be used to fund your business and will be write off in your tax. I started my photography business with this method.

The broken english is so cute while she is in the Philippines but she has to learn to communicate in straight english to make her life a lot easier here in the US.

I drank sterilized milk before i arrived at SLEC. Got now problem at all. Passed the x-ray test.