Greetings- can you help me through the maze?

I agree with John. Fly Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong, which has an excellent modern airport, change planes there - Cathay will arrange a chair, etc., and be sure of your connection - and fly on to NAIA T3 with Cathay, who will arrange a chair at T3. Stay in a nice hotel in Makati. Fly back the same way.

make sure your travel insurance is comprehensive if you go

we did lots of pre nup photoshoots. but that is wayyy off topic lol.

Naughty boy

Monty python. 'Nudge nudge wink wink click click grin grin say no more'.

no--she was here in the UK on a student visa--4 years i think--we met locally in 2011 ( plenty of fish )

after she went home in 2012--she tried for a visit visa in early 2013--but was refused--some error in the paperwotk--even though she used a visa app service. a subsequent application waqs successful--and she flew over in july 2013---ostensibly to visit her sister who is settled here and was able to offer accommodation. no mention of me in the visa application!

she stayed with me for 6 months.

shes put a little weight on since then--in all the right places.

You're a lucky old codger bigmac you know which side your toast is buttered on

Thanks

thanks I have been looking at that airline and they seemed to be good quality for the price

That was handy so I need to find a friendly filipina here in Germany who would say my friend was coming to visit her. I guess that is a possibility. Thanks

No, no, NO!!!

Unless the lady genuinely has a sister in Germany, you are risking a jail sentence for human trafficking.

your not going to find a friend if you don't go out! finding one on the Internet will be well risky.
If you haven't been out for ages are you expecting that as soon as she gets to you you will then be able to go out,if not what do you expect her to do for the duration of the visit?
Sorry to say but I think in your situation you are going to struggle to demonstrate a loving and meaningful relationship.

so--i'm totally in the camp of you staying put and avoid the unecessary stress a long flight will certainly cause you. get your lady over to you and have a great time together

how is this possible he doesn't go out!

Ahh I dunno you know.
@BlueberryCheeseCake and I can have a great time even if we don't go out.

How did you wind up in Germany, Geoff? What's the story there?

Oh ok thak you for saving me that

We talk 18 hours a day for the last months. We are both so interested in each others ciulture, she wants to learn German and I will be teaching her. I am a very good cook, hence my large stomach and we can have romantic candlelit meals together, watch videos, listen to music she knows all my problems and is ok with that. And yes I am hoping that with a bit of time we may be able to go out. I am able to drive so there is plenty to see if it works out.

Married 32 years in England, marriage ok but children had left home and the male menopause hit me! I am getting old what do I do for the rest of my life? A friend set up a computer for me at home and said have a look in yahoo chat, I was in a chat room and there was someone called German Lady. As I had learnt German at school, I typed good evening in german and we began the usual route emails, skype, telephone and then she tells me she is falling for me even with all my problems and we needed to meet. I would never have considered travelling to Germany. I told a friend about this woman and he said he will come and pick me up, take me to his house, then pick up the woman from the airport and we ccould stay for the weekend. Yes, it went very well once I had stopped shaking and then began a very difficult 6 months where she was pushing me to move to Germany. The hardest decision of my life, do I give up an ok marriage or take a risk and move to Germany. Well I made the wrong decision. Before anyone asks she was 12 years younger than me. First two years fantastic then she wanted to get married and from the day of the wedding she changed A couple of months later I was in hospital where they were trying to limit my back pain and I received a text message Its over, I have changed the locks on the doors and have applied for divorce. Here I am 13 years later still in Germany and soon another of those big decisions must be made.
Thats it folks!