Hi everyone!

We just got married on October 4th at Manila Cathedral and are now going to start the process of getting the 13a visa. I have been in the Ph on and off for 5 years now and lviing in pasig since march 2008 permanently working in training.

We met a really great guy at the BI in Manila who stamped me for Balikbayan after we got back from our honeymoon in Hong Kong and this has given us confidence to dump the fix it guys and do the 13a ourselves. He didn't have to as we had only been out a week and not a year but a smile gets you a long way!

Just one question, how does a letter of application from my spouse look and what should be in it. It has to be notarized so we don't really want to do all that and have the BI say we got it wrong.

Anything else we should watch out for at the Manila BI in making this application we would be more than happy to hear about. I know there are some threads about the 13a I will read, (already read a lot of them), but none that have given samples of submissions for guidance.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Marcus & Rowena