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CFO for minors

Discussion in 'UK Visa and Immigration Help' started by bigmac, Dec 19, 2023.

  1. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Has anyone had recent experience with CFO needed for 13-19 years old ?
  2. GJD223
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    GJD223 Active Member

    From what I can see, children under the age of 12 years do not have to attend but the parent needs to present their passport and visa to get a certificate when they attend CFO. I think I would be incline to take the kids alone with me, can’t do any harm !
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  4. John Surrey
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    John Surrey Well-Known Member

    I would check first...

    Just before the pandemic my wife went to one of these things and it turned into woman's gossip hour (or two) about how my wife had survived being married and living with a kano (me) for over 7 years!

    If she has to take them, then take someone to look after them while she's in there :)
  5. Br28016
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    Br28016 Active Member Trusted Member

    @bigmac wife is in the UK and has british citizenship. CFO is for her child who is either 17 or 18 from memory and just got settlement visa.
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  6. John Surrey
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    John Surrey Well-Known Member

    Thanks, I'll shut up now :like:
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  7. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    I need to know how does he get it..how long does it take to make an appointment. If it wasnt for me sticking my oar in...no one would have done anything about it..till he gets to the airport snd is turned away.

    You would think pinoys would know something about their countrys rules.
  8. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    Go on line book appointment, boy attends (with mother)) sit around talking to them and others get stamp in passport leave
    Registration can be done through the R&R PDOS at the CFO website, www.cfo.gov.ph. Bring the barcoded online registration form at the CFO Manila together with the complete registration requirements to register. Emigrants 60 years old and older have the option to attend the Pre-Departure Orientation Seminar or PDOS.
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

  10. John Surrey
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    John Surrey Well-Known Member

    Start here

    13-19 = Peer Counseling Program
  11. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    yeah--i came to the 403 forbidden bit--and thought it was my laptop stopping me doing it.
    i have pinged the link to mother--she can sort it out.
  12. bigmac
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    nope--forbidden
  13. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    Did you see my next link? On the next post
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  15. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    yeah--i pinged that link, although i saw similar yesterday..but read on it summat about waiting 14 days if using different email...so left well alone.
  16. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    duly pinged.

    ive told her to crack on with this--expecting major delays in philippines. Manyana land..where waiting in long queues is part of daily life.
    the boy waited 5 years to ger his visa--so a few more months of delays is par for the course.

    The problem is knowing who to bung to get things done.
  17. John Surrey
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    Try this:

    https://manila.cfo.gov.ph/Online_PDOS_Account_Creation/

    And it should show you something like this:
    upload_2023-12-21_10-11-2.png


    NOT the one @Mattecube told you as

    "This looks a better one.... https://manila.cfo.gov.ph/Online_PDOS_Account_Creation/ReachedTheMaximumDailyClients.aspx "

    Appears to be the page telling people it's full today !:)
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  18. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    I posted the link you’ve posted 4 replies up, do keep up! and it works The link you posted shows me a similar messsage as the one I get on the link I posted ie telling people it’s full must be a blocker UK to Philippines. However if you use the link address you can get into the link I copied 5 replies ago and the one you have tried to copy
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  19. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    yesterday i had sent wife all the links from these replies, she then conferred with her daughter ( here on a 3 year work visa ) I had mentioned boy attends with mother

    11 PM last night daughter rings--and a 2 hour conflab ensues.

    1 AM this morning i am informed they have managed to book appointment for boy in february--when mother is over there for holiday.

    I suggest she contacts son to check up whether she needs to be there with him.--usual response to anything i say is--WHY--so i replied--"in case you cant be there yourself "--anything can happen.

    I am told--yet again--i am being NEGATIVE--and no help to them.

    At this point i exploded.

    From now on i want nothing to do with immigration, or philipine bureaucratic bullsh1t.

    i didnt sleep after that--going back to bed.
  20. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    Haha you need a hug!and they are not here yet
    Only going by in 2017 wife had to attend with her daughter I got dismissed to a walk round a park!
    If the other travellers in your party are attending the same appointment then they if over 18 can act on your wife’s behalf with written permission from your wife
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