spinynorman
4th March 2013, 00:11
Hi all. I will try to keep this as short as possible. After a very long time (including an aborted annulment process) my fiancee in Negros Occidental will receive her annulment documents soon. I had to take a gamble a couple of weeks ago and booked flights for my teenage daughter and myself to visit her during the school Easter break and a little beyond ... in the knowledge that we might ... or might not be able to get married! If we are unable to marry then we will go the 'fiancee' visa route and marry over here. In the meantime I am trying to do everything that I need to for the possibility of getting married in PH.
So far I have applied for my UK CNI - that will be available on the 13th, and I have an appointment in Cebu to get the CNI converted to a PH one. In the CNI requirements document that was sent to me it is clear that I do not need a CENOMAR for the CNI conversion (having been divorced). My question here is ... do I need a CENOMAR when we go to apply for the marriage license in Negros Occidental? Also, because my fiancee will have had an annulled marriage, she too does no need a CENOMAR in Cebu. Again, does she need one for the marriage license application? It appears that the CENOMAR will take several days to reach my fiancee, and cannot be aplied for until she actually receives her annulment documents so she will need to receive them perhaps a week before we are due to be in Cebu.
The chances of getting everything in place in time are quite slim, but I would like to be absolutely sure that we are clear what we actually need. When my fiancee talked to the family planning person in her home town she was told that we would have to wait ten working days after the license application. That is contrary to what people have said here on the forum and the 'official' legal documentation (http://www.lawcenter.ph/law-library/laws/executive-orders/the-family-code-of-the-philippines/). I am obviously aware that local offices can deviate from this :(.
It seems that a great deal of patience and determination is required to be able to be permanently with someone that you fall in love with and happens to live in the Philippines!
So far I have applied for my UK CNI - that will be available on the 13th, and I have an appointment in Cebu to get the CNI converted to a PH one. In the CNI requirements document that was sent to me it is clear that I do not need a CENOMAR for the CNI conversion (having been divorced). My question here is ... do I need a CENOMAR when we go to apply for the marriage license in Negros Occidental? Also, because my fiancee will have had an annulled marriage, she too does no need a CENOMAR in Cebu. Again, does she need one for the marriage license application? It appears that the CENOMAR will take several days to reach my fiancee, and cannot be aplied for until she actually receives her annulment documents so she will need to receive them perhaps a week before we are due to be in Cebu.
The chances of getting everything in place in time are quite slim, but I would like to be absolutely sure that we are clear what we actually need. When my fiancee talked to the family planning person in her home town she was told that we would have to wait ten working days after the license application. That is contrary to what people have said here on the forum and the 'official' legal documentation (http://www.lawcenter.ph/law-library/laws/executive-orders/the-family-code-of-the-philippines/). I am obviously aware that local offices can deviate from this :(.
It seems that a great deal of patience and determination is required to be able to be permanently with someone that you fall in love with and happens to live in the Philippines!