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You can avail of the balikbayan visa if you are travelling with your wife. In the immigration they are going to call out who are balikbayans & you can fall in line in that line. Just show your marriage certificate.
http://www.philippineconsulate.com.au/balikbayan-one-year-visa-free-stay.html
Balikbayan one-year visa-free stay
Balikbayans – any overseas Filipino returning to the Philippines, including former Filipinos who have acquired foreign citizenship – can stay in the Philippines without a visa for a period of one year. The balikbayan visa-free stay privilege is extended to the balikbayan’s non-Filipino spouse and children, provided they enter the Philippines with the balikbayan.
Former Filipino balikbayans traveling to the Philippines are advised to bring either their old Philippine passport or copy of Philippine birth certificate as proof of their former Philippine citizenship. Accompanying family members of the balikbayan can bring appropriate supporting documents:

For the spouse: copy of marriage certificate For each child: copy of birth certificate For adopted children: copy of adoption papers Philippine Law (R.A. 9174) provides benefits to baikbayans:

Tax-exempt maximum purchases in the amount of USD 1,500, or the equivalent in Philippine and other currency, at Philippine Government–operated duty free shops Exemption from Travel Tax, provided that their stay in the Philippines is one year or less. If their stay in the Philippines exceeds one year, Travel tax will apply to them.

Best bet is to walk away from the airport and catch a regular taxi, its much cheaper.

1997-2009: long distance relationship with my husband (then boyfriend). I have a 10 year b1/b2 visa since 2001. Been seeing each other once a year since 2001.
2008.10.29 travelled to the US to visit him,
2009.4.11 got married, small wedding no gown no tuxedo
2009.4.17 meeting with our immigration attorney. Attorney to file withdrawal of K1, new application for I-485, I-130, I-765 for us
2009.5 attorney filed withdrawal of K1
2009.5 medical check-up done and got sealed report
2009.7.10 receipt from USCIS confirming withdrawal of K1
2009.8 received husband's psych report (by a licensed psychologist in Michigan)
2009.9 husband got certified copies of court records ready + my affidavit stating I am aware of his and he is not a threat to me + friends affidavits
2009.9.16 attorney sent off package to chicago (I485, I130, I765)
2009.9.28 received NOA1 for all of the above peititions (dated 09.24)
2009.9.30 received NOA for biotmetrics appointment (10.23)
2009.10.23 biometrics appointment and I-485, I-765 got touched on USCIS case portfolio
2009.10.26 I-485, I-765 case touched on USCIS site
2009.11.9 email update EAD (I-765) card production ordered
2009.11.10 EAD touched again
2009.11.13 received the same EAD email from USCIS again!
2009.11.14 received interview notice from USCIS in the mail (Dec 17)
2009.11.16 EAD touched again
2009.11.17 EAD touched again
2009.11.18 received EAD card in the mail early morning!!
2009.11.19 Applied for SSN
2009.11.30 I-485 case touched online
2009.12.01 Received SSN card in the mail
2009.12.02 I-485 case touched again
2009.12.07 received interview cancellation letter from USCIS in the mail!
2009.12.18 received biometrics appointment letter for my husband (petitioner) for Jan 4 2010, which we think is STRANGE.
2010.01.14 I-130 case number finally shows up on USCIS website. Initial Review stage.
2010-5-25: I-130 and I-485 been denied. The letter of denial said they mailed us and lawyer a copy of request for further evidence. But neither did we or lawyer got any copy. We are skeptical both copies got lost in mail.
2010-6-24: our lawyer sent off the appeal package for the I-130 by overnight delivery. Packaged was received and signed on 6-25, right on the 30th day since the denial letter was issued.
2010-7-6: received lawyer phone call saying he received a letter from USCIS saying the appeal form he used is not the latest version and the appeal package was rejected. But lawyer said the appeal form he used was downloaded strict from USCIS website one day before he mailed the package out. So it is the current version. Lawyer resubmitted the same package again today asking USCIS not to reject.
2010-7-14: touched but no actual textual update
2010-7-15: touched but no actual textual update
2010-7-19: lawyer received a receipt from USCIS for the I-130 appeal.
2010-7-29: lawyer submitted his brief in support for the appeal and my affidavit for my husband. This brief is not to argue for approval, but to get our 87 days back for the RFE that USCIS claimed to have sent to us back in January while neither we or the lawyer received it.
2010-8-16: EOIR-29 form (appeal for I-130) touched on USCIS website. But no status update.
2010-8-27: received a counter brief from USCIS National Benefits Center towards our appeal for I-130. The brief from USCIS was addressed to BIA but copied us and lawyer in. In their brief, they still said that it was valid to reject our case because they did mail us a NOID or RFE (which we did not receive). They also said we filed an untimely appeal - which according to the certified mail delivery status on USPS, the appeal was delivered on time.
2010-9-14: I-485 and I-765 cases got touched on USCIS website on 2010-9-11. I-130 and EOIR-29 no touch. Called USCIS and spoke to a tier-2 immigration service officer. Was told that she can't see anything done for the Sep 11 touch. I asked if I ever put into removal proceedings would that be indicated on the status update? She said no it's separate.
2010-11-8: last day at work as EAD expired but no renewal due to I-130 appeal.
2010-1-3: husband called USCIS counsel and was referred to call BIA (board of immigration appeals). Husband called BIA and spoke to a clerk who confirmed our appeal documents have been with the Board. However the documents have been moved to different departments back and forth. Therefore it might be why my A number does not exist in the BIA's telephone case status system yet. It's good though - at least I know BIA has our appeal documents. From now on, we should follow up with BIA instead of USCIS...
2011-3-2: mailed out an enquiry letter to BIA in virginia asking them the status of the I-130 appeal. Waiting to see if they will respond.
2011-7-2: received BIA's decision: recorded remanded for entry of new decision. It does not mean the Service will approve us. But the Service is now required to reevaluate our case from beginning. The total appeal timeline (from sending out appeal to receiving a decision) is about 1 year and a week.
2011-7-??: Lawyer sent off a letter to USCIS's national benefits center in MO asking them to forward the remanded I-130 to Vermont (because remanded AWA cases are to be reviewed by Vermont now).
2011-7-25: Husband called USCIS 1-800 number. Got transferred 3 times to get to a tier-2 immigration officer. Asked the officer if record shows that the case been forwarded to Vermont service center. The IO said no such record yet but it usually takes time to process. He said if we don't hear anything by 8.15 we should call again.
2011-10: Received written notice from USCIS that I-130 and I-485 were reopened as a result of the remanded I130 appeal. However, the written notice is ALSO a NOID (notice of intent to deny). The NOID asks that we submit further evidence to prove that my husband is not a risk to me, within 87 days limit. Earlier in the year, around May, we were able to work with a criminal psychologist to do a psych report again. At the same time, the psychologist referred us to his associate, a licensed polygraph examiner, to do a polygraph test. We also obtained some more letters from my husband's side of the family. I also did one more affidavit. My husband did an affidavit as well. His is a very long one, like a biography of his childhood, crimes, how we met, how long we had met, how long we've been living together.
2011-10: Same month as we received the re-opening notice / NOID from USCIS, our attorney submitted a new application of EAD for me.
2011-12: Our attorney mailed all evidences to USCIS in response to the NOID
2012-3: started working again, legally, with the EAD!
2012-9: received a written notice from USCIS, Lee Summit, MO, for an interview at Detroit USCIS mid October.
2012-10: Together with our attorney, all 3 of us met with the Immigration Officer at Detroit USCIS. Basic questions, like what line of work I do, and whether I am a terrorist, were asked. However, no questions were asked about my husband's background. However, my husband took this opportunity to let I/O know once again he is not a threat or risk to me and he asked the officer not to take me away from him - very humble and wholehearted.
2012-12: Attorney said we were approved and forwarded the USCIS auto update email to us. I could not believe it - I asked him if the officer at Detroit couuld have hit the wrong button. He emailed the officer next day and got a firm reply that it was approved. So, our attorney did have the contact email address of the officer and a couple USCIS counsel attorneys in Lee Summit MO. He had been following up with those people heavily in the summer.
2012-mid December: received permanent resident card in the mail
Have some hope - my husband always tells me those who care and persist will succeed in the end

I personally have no issue with people that cross the border and end up in the usa, legal or not. Or eventually are granted some sort of legal status, i'm ok with that. But it just seems like those that take the legal paths are not respected much at all.
By dream act, i'm just speaking of the programs that allow children (not born in the usa ) to be able to stay in the USA. And i'm ok with that , but i'm not really ok with paying all these fees and waiting so long to not be approved. While others are breaking the law to enter the USA and are given a free pass .
I just think the priorities of USCIS are completely backwards , those that pay fees, follow process, and wait the length of time required should be first . Especially in cases of family such as husband /wife/children
But i guess this is beating a dead horse so to speak. Might as well lock the thread
Thanks

I agree the US is so F--- up. A married US citizen has to jump through hoops to bring a family member but someone from Mexico can just walk over have a baby and the baby gets to stay. My wife is Filipina and became a US citizen last March. It took us 8 months to get her parents to the US. Her sister and brother will have to wait 10-20 years. This country is so worried about helping other countries and not US citizen that's why the US economy is so bad now
DON'T even try for the tourist visa. You will not get it an just waste your money to file.

Life ain't fair. If the Pinay vote ever gets big enough, to make a difference in an election you can look for them to be given something like the dream act. Until then we just have to accept the fact that for most of us, the family visiting is not going to happen . I don't know why they couldn't doing something like this.
Say give my Mother in Law a 2 month tourist visa. Make me post a bond. Much like bailing someone out of jail. Make it me as the sponsor who is responsible for her not overstaying her visa. If she does a forfeit my bond, and they use the money to pay for the INS to deport her.

Our good friends at USCIS are never going to approve her for a tourist visa because she is married to an American citizen. Almost no amount of proof will get this approved i believe

No it isn't, please stop posting bunk information like this.
Entering on a nonimmigrant visa (such as a tourist visa) and then adjusting status following a change in circumstances is perfectly legal and thousands of people do it every year.
Entering the US on a nonimmigrant visa with the preconceived intent to remain is immigration fraud.
The two are not the same thing.

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

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

I say give her a break, don't be on her all the time about everything.
She left her country for a new one, thats a huge and often difficult change. Plus being pregnant on top of it, she has many big changes going on in her life. Try to up lift her, help her, make her feel welcome. An old saying goes " dont forget to date your wife" . Give each other space , she doesnt have to speak english just to include you. If you want to speak as well, learn the language.
With that being said, i see so many concerning posts . Why dont you show your wife these posts or let her post her thoughts here?
At some point she is going to wise up and when she sees you were talking about taking her virginity and other crazy stuff online she is probably going to leave you. I mean no disrespect to you, but i highly advise to change the way you think about things and what personal info you post online about her if you want to keep her as a happy wife.

I think you are confused, we are not talking about bringing a sex offender into the usa, we are talking about the wives and families of sex offenders. You do realize that lots of people are labeled as sex offenders that are not pedophiles, right? These people are not out at night looking for children and stalking your kids, thats fear mongering on your part.
No spouse would be charged with endangering a child by marrying someone that was a sex offender, did you pull that out of a hat as well?
If a sex offender lives in the usa, and gets married and petitions his wife to live in the usa with him, than how is the usa " protecting its people" ? protecting them from who? From their own husbands and families?
I think you fail to realize the scope of people that are labeled sex offenders in the united states. There is no difference in a sex offender in the usa marrying another us citizen vs an immigrant, its just discrimination against immigrants

Hi guys! This is my first time posting online. I hope someone can help me with advice. My husband and I have been married for 5 years. We have 2 kids. My husband is a sex offender. When he was 20, he dated a 15 year-old girl, his ex-girlfriend reported about those relationship and he got a conviction.
So, we got married in September 2007. He filed a petition I-130 for me right a way. USCIS requested some information, we provided them with everything they asked for. We were denied based on Adam Walsh Act in September 2009. At that point, we hired an attorney to appeal the case. In July 2011, BIA sent the case back to Milwaukee office for a new decision to be made by the field director. After that, in August 2011, our attorney submitted a brief to USCIS as a reply to BIA's decision. In November 2011, we went to the InfoPass appointment to ask about our case status, as we have not heard anything from Milwaukee office after BIA's decision. They said wait 90 days. In February, our attorney sent a letter about the case status, they said to wait 60 days. In May, the letter was sent out again, the respond was to simply wait without any clue how long. In June of this year, 2012, we finally found an attorney who specializes in Adam Walsh Act cases, and he submitted Adam Walsh waiver for us. Then, 3 months later, he sent a letter to Milwaukee office asking about a case status again, but there was no answer from them.
We have been fighting for the petition more than 5 years already. We simply want them to make a decision. If they deny us again, then we will do something back. So, we are thinking about filing a Writ of Mandamus, and if they deny us, we will file an administrative procedure act.
Do you think this is the right pass? or should we wait even longer?
Our present attorney is from NY. Should we look for someone locally to file the Mandamus, since it might get very expensive if he needs to fly to WI and spend a day here?
I just want someone who knows something about this law to give me his or her opinion.
Thank you in advance

More like they made statments or answers that can not be confirmed because there is no transparency to what they are doing behind doors.
What about people like us who are working on 2 years of back ground checks

Year old thread. Let it rest in peace.

Wow congratulations!! That's a big baby!! :)

I hope OP has divorced and pulled his application/support.

Yes it is.
OP's wife abused their love. It's not beautiful anymore.

I found an email on her IPAD that she sent to this guy. It had skype screens shots of him and a couple of her and she typed I LOVE YOU!. Pretty cut and dried about what she did.
I asked her how long this had been going on and never got a straight answer.

Let her get a job, get the NOA2, go to the interiview, get approved, leave the philippines and the job. Its that easy

Does Rover want to apply for a tourist visa?

This can be true, but it is also classic manipulative cloaking over abusive behavior. It's called "playing the servant role". One of the other classics is the manipulator controlling communications between the people he is manipulating. The language/cultural differences can be true, but it can also be a thing exploited by a control freak. He claims nobody can understand her, and she can't understand anyone else. So communications both ways have to be controlled by Mr. Control-Freaky.
Our instructions on predatory manipulators say they choose their quarry carefully: seeking out people who will let them get away with it. Abusive spouses tend to end up with people who accepted abuse in childhood. It is called self-selection bias. Independent, strong-willed people reject control-freaky actions so those relationships end, while people who have had this in their lives actually find a comfort in the familiarity of it, so they stay with a guy when another girl would be running for the hills.
If you have no father, then you have no example to go by, and are handicapped relative to girls who had great fathers. If you had an abusive father, it is much higher potential for disordered thinking, and the perpetuation of the problem on through the next generation. If you've stayed in the Philippines for any length of time you have seen daughters who were told growing up that their duty was to bring home the bacon for everyone else. They are on Filipina Cupid or whatever listing themselves as "18 yo stunner wants family rescued from poverty". Youth and beauty can do that on its own. But when it is following the guidance of the wrong person then whoever shows up with the first boat wins.
Who knows. The information we get has all gone through the ministry of propaganda before release.

NOW is the time you have to stop broadcasting stuff about your wife online. As have other's said view your wife as individual and stop generalizing Filipina's from province cause everybody's different. All the posts you started (except immigration related) should be discussed/addressed as husband and wife instead of posting it here, it don't really solved anything whatever issues you have on your marriage/wife. I understand you want to help people by telling your experience but the most important thing really right now is to HELP your wife and it is only be achieved by TALKING to her with everything. You will never understand your wife if you keep posting stuff in here instead of addressing it to her or help her learn with everything. I will be willing to talk to her, help her and just talk about everything. I can be her friend. Shoot me a message. Congrats with the baby!

I say give her a break, don't be on her all the time about everything.
She left her country for a new one, thats a huge and often difficult change. Plus being pregnant on top of it, she has many big changes going on in her life. Try to up lift her, help her, make her feel welcome. An old saying goes " dont forget to date your wife" . Give each other space , she doesnt have to speak english just to include you. If you want to speak as well, learn the language.
With that being said, i see so many concerning posts . Why dont you show your wife these posts or let her post her thoughts here?
At some point she is going to wise up and when she sees you were talking about taking her virginity and other crazy stuff online she is probably going to leave you. I mean no disrespect to you, but i highly advise to change the way you think about things and what personal info you post online about her if you want to keep her as a happy wife.

I'm starting to think that a lot of these issues should have been realized/discussed before beginning the visa process and getting married.