Quote Originally Posted by IainBusby View Post
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.
we also waited 10 straight days for our marriage licence including weekends... we applied 7th july and had seminar at the same day.. got the licence 17th of july.. then married 19th of july.
it happens that my brother knew the head of registrar where we got our licence... and explained it to us everything we need and we didn't pay a single peso (think my brother did pay, it's like a token for our wedding).. but we did the whole processed in obtaining it.
it will be better if u knew someone in the registrar's office so it won't be hard for u in applying ur marriage licence.
as everyone knows here, sometimes they will tell u this and that specially government employees... (well, u knew already what i mean )