Hi all, Im just begining the long journey of bringing my philipino fiance to the uk so we can marry and begin the process of her uk citizenship. Any advice is very welcome from those who have already done it.
Hello and here, Ekuman1964 Where did you meet your Filipina fiancée? Have you visited the Philippines yet?
Hi, I met Her online, we have been Skype ing for 3 months now. No i have never been to the Phillipines yet.
You have a treat coming - the Philippines is a wonderful country to visit and the people are very friendly and hospitable. I have been about 10 times but will wait until our kids get a little older before going over there again.
I will go out there, in fact we plan to buy a holiday home there, its only the presure of my business that is stopping me, thats why we are marrying here in the uk, then we start the whole immigration merrygoround! We at fiance visa stage now, any tips?
if you've never met her in real life, regardless of how much time you've been Skypeing, etc then you don't know her at all. and I mean, not at all. you don't know if she is married or single. You don't know if she has kids, or not. You don't know if she has other foreign guys to whom she also chats and who also think that she is their fiance. you don't even know, with total certainty, if she is man or woman. Until you go to the Philippines and meet her she is not your fiance. She is not anything. She is just this internet phantom who could be anybody.
My wife went straight for the marriage settlement visa and I supported her all the way through - I flew to Cebu to take her by plane to Manila as she was so nervous. Keep copies of all your flight tickets and hotel bills. Take photos of your fiancée and family and date the photos in a small scrapbook. Keep a diary so you will remember dates. Save up your £ - it will be expensive for visa / ILR or FLR / Citizenship but when she is with you, you will not regret a penny spent.
Hi, Thanks for that, so is there no way she can come here without me going there first? I have business and cant go until at least August and we dont want to wait until then.
You could apply for a visit visa for her but they are difficult to obtain,she would have to show and demonstrate compelling reasons that she would return to the Philippines at the end of her visa
they can, but it is nothing like in real life. Deception-by-the-internet is a huge business in the Philippines and you would know this without a doubt if you had spent hundreds of hours sitting in Philippines internet cafes. It is not uncommon for them to work in teams. Although the majority of interractions are legitimate, a significant minority of them aren't. there is numerous guys who internet-chatted to women for a total of thousands of hours before going to the Philippines to meet The One. Only it turned out that The One wasn't The One at all. The One in one instance turned out to be very happily married to a Filipino guy, a marriage that had been made much happier by the many thousands of pesos that had found their way out of the United States and into their wallets and purses in the Philippines.
Yes i understand what you are saying, obviously we need to do this the right way to please the authorities and in a way that wont bite us later in the bum when applying for her ILR. I trust her 100% she has never asked for money from me in the 3 months we have been video and phone chatting.
"I trust her 100% she has never asked for money from me in the 3 months we have been video and phone chatting." that she hasn't asked for money is encouraging, but it doesn't mean all that much. She could be getting money sent by one or more of the other guys she may be chatting to and is hitting on you in a different way. bottom line with this is that nothing has happened, or indeed can happen until you go there and meet her in person.
With all due respect... what planet are you on ? Amazon have not yet started delivering pretty Filipinas have they ? A couple of weeks away from your business is more important than a lifetime commitment to somebody from a totally different culture ? Get yourself over to the Philippines and meet the lady.... and do some proper dating if you are serious about this , rather than leading a lady along in some sort of schoolboy fantasy.
You are planning to buy a house in a country you have never been to with someone you have not yet met but are engaged to marry?? Has your chatmate told you that you are prevented from owning real property, by law?
I did see this over there. There was a story on another forum of a man sending money over there then finally going to meet his new love interest only to be met by another man. Ouch
Slow down Ekuman1964 Chat with us on here and then make the right decision. You need to go over there to meet your lady friend. Be very careful and don't rush into anything. Even when you meet her, take time to mull over all the possibilities, good and bad. I would advise you to return back to the UK after meeting her and think things over. I met my future wife and was totally bowled over but returned to the UK to make a plan. I had some shenanigans to resolve with money that "disappeared" which turned out to be her uncle who was "looking after" her. The episode drove a wedge in her family and I had to go over to demand he return what he said he did not collect. He returned the money and hid away from me in public even though the worse weapon I had was the power to ignore him. You never know what will happen - don't "marry in haste, repent at leisure". It could work for you and we all hope it will, but I feel there will be a real eureka moment when you will know she is really the one for you.
