Quote Originally Posted by paulgee View Post
Could I please elicit some advice regarding the 10 day wait after supplying a local cni. From various posts in the Forum I assume it is just 10 straight days wait from the time the local cni is supplied to the town hall where the marriage is being arranged. My fiancee was told in her home town it is 10 working days, ie excluding weekends.

Could someone please clarify this before she queries this with them again, so she can go armed with the correct information. Obviously the extra days wait would make quite a difference given the time restraints when I fly over there.

Many thanks

Paul
Given your predicament you may want to consider applying for your marriage licence somewhere other than the local town hall where the marriage is to take place if 10 working days is their requirement. When I was going through all of this palava I found out that once you have a marriage licence, from any province in the Philippines, it can be used to marry in any city or province in the Philippines that you choose.

My wife and I submitted my CNI, birth certificate, divorce decree and my wife's various papers in Bukidnon and waited 10 straight days for the marriage licence to be issued as we did initially intend to marry there, but we eventually married elsewhere, outside that province, without any problems with regard to where the marriage licence was issued.
Iain.