Filipinos marrying foreigners to flee poverty

[benb]

Folks, have a look at this article. apologies if you aleady have seen it.

Filipinos marrying foreigners to flee poverty

http://www.asianpacificpost.com/port...overty.do.html

"The year 2006 also had historic record-high numbers for spouses going to the United States (10,190), Japan (8,601), Canada (988), and the United Kingdom (619). The increase for Japan alone is 2,279 spouses from 2005 figures (6,322)."

619? that is less than 2 a day processed by the embassy, yet they take weeks to process marriage visas. Is winter the quiet period? I wonder what the figure was in 2007?

Cheers

[nigel]

Only 619? - That number is smaller than I imagined it would be...

[angel2008]

when I attended the CFO seminar I was the only one applicant bound to UK and they forgot to mention UK when they start to call every country. USA 20 applicants raised their hands, korea 2, Japan 3 etc. And who else didnt call? so I raised my hand for UK. Hehe I was alone in the one on one interview. Lucky because I finished early.

[joebloggs]

the number of visa apps are highest in may,jun,july and aug.

dec, jan and feb are the months when visa apps are at the lowest number, nearly half the number of apps in the peak months i mentioned.

619, 2 a day

well in 2005-2006 the british embassy in manila recieved 1920 settlement visa apps, that would include all settlement apps for those who just got married to Brits and their dependants and also for Filipinos settled who are applying for partner or for their kids.

but thats roughly 8 a day, for each working day

but then they had 35,000 non settlement apps , which covers student visa (1,700), visit visa (17,500) ,workpermits (2,700), transit (6,000), others (6,000) etc

so 37,000+ apps a year , thats more than 2 aday

so your 2 a day is near 150 visa apps to look at for each working day (250 working days)

[aug06_2006]

maybe yeah!

[KeithD]

British men marrying Filipina's to flee Britain?

[doonat]

Filipinos marrying foreigners to flee poverty

i think so but reading from this forum, love prevails...

[Mrs Daddy]

Who`s to blame

[KeithD]

Who`s to blame

Gordon Brown

[Mrs Daddy]

Gordon Brown

[Mrs Daddy]

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[andypaul]

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[Mrs Daddy]

Today the flipuk site tomorrow Mrs Dady takes over the World

Not bad Idea

[KeithD]

Flee poverty

Good of someone to show an interest in such small insects

[keithAngel]

Ah thats why she wants to get "itched" not dropping er "h"s after all

[PeterB]

British men marrying Filipina's to flee Britain?

Haha .... GUILTY!

Seriously, though ... I was just thinking that the article seems to make the assumption that the only 'inter' marriages are those where the filipina emigrates.

[Ann07]

when I attended the CFO seminar I was the only one applicant bound to UK and they forgot to mention UK when they start to call every country. USA 20 applicants raised their hands, korea 2, Japan 3 etc. And who else didnt call? so I raised my hand for UK. Hehe I was alone in the one on one interview. Lucky because I finished early.

we are the same angel, i was the only one bound for uk too during my seminar

[Ann07]

British men marrying Filipina's to flee Britain?

[benb]

Good of someone to show an interest in such small insects

[benb]

the number of visa apps are highest in may,jun,july and aug.

dec, jan and feb are the months when visa apps are at the lowest number, nearly half the number of apps in the peak months i mentioned.

619, 2 a day

well in 2005-2006 the british embassy in manila recieved 1920 settlement visa apps, that would include all settlement apps for those who just got married to Brits and their dependants and also for Filipinos settled who are applying for partner or for their kids.

but thats roughly 8 a day, for each working day

but then they had 35,000 non settlement apps , which covers student visa (1,700), visit visa (17,500) ,workpermits (2,700), transit (6,000), others (6,000) etc

so 37,000+ apps a year , thats more than 2 aday

so your 2 a day is near 150 visa apps to look at for each working day (250 working days)

In that case, Embassy is making a huge profit!!! Perhaps, Big bonuses for ECOs!

[cheesewiz]

I think everyone has its own reason. Or some foreigners are just ignoring that reason as they believe that love prevails morethan anything else. Anyway, it doesn't matter whatever the reason I still believe that filipina wife is the best in the world

[nigel]

I think everyone has its own reason. Or some foreigners are just ignoring that reason as they believe that love prevails morethan anything else. Anyway, it doesn't matter whatever the reason I still believe that filipina wife is the best in the world

I agree...