Hi everyone I am a Brit and married my asawa in the UK. My Filipina kept her surname on all documents. If we move to the Philippines what visa or documents do we need?
Check this link for you https://www.gov.uk/guidance/living-in-the-philippines is your wife a British citizen? Or is she going through the visa process? If she is BC then she has dual nationality till her Philippines passport expires so she would have to apply for Philippines citizenship again however she could return on her valid Philippines passport and apply while in the country if she has not got BC then it’s as is in terms of her Philippines nationality.
13a visa route is I believe the way to go https://nomadicfire.com/philippines-13a-visa-marriage Worth a search on the site and sure couple of people have used the route. Marriage needs to have been in philippines or Registered at embassey if done in the UK. Assumes wife has filipino citizenship
Does it create problems that my wife kept her name on our marriage certificate and her passport? For example, would the Philippines government recognise our marriage.
Shouldn't be an issue. Is your marriage certificate a UK one? If it is did you register the marriage at philippines embassy in london ? And do you have the PSA report of marriage? If not then will potentially have issues as they expect overseas marriages to be registered in order to recognise them. https://www.google.com/amp/s/newsin...ont-have-to-use-pepes-name-after-marriage/amp
If you haven’t registered the marriage at the Philippines embassy this link tells you how https://londonpe.dfa.gov.ph/consular-matters/civil-registry
You can register your marriage at the Phillipines embassy get a report of marriage and they will add it on to their national statistics Centre and it will be on “the system” even if your names a different. My wife and I just did it here in Abu Dhabi. Video here of her explaining Let me know if you have any questions Good luck
