Hi< I Need Desprate Advice

[IainBusby]

I understand it can be arranged locally for an express fee, (you will have to find this out through other Filipinos)

Thank you all for your very honest and sometimes scary answers to my question. My girlfriends emplotes are aware of her status here in the UK, and therefore, they are putting their selves in danger of maybe priosecution if she was discovered. She has been in this country for 4 yrars, and honestly her visa was for 6 months. I met her 2 years ago, but, I dont want to lose her for 1 minuate. I would do any thing now to keep her here, but the advice you guys have given me is kid of scary, and makes me want to stay as far away from the border police as possible. Is there any chance i could marry her here, will it make a difference f she has a child to me as we are trying. And when i say she has given so much this counrty ecomically, she has worked with of the elderly who sufer alzheimers. I do know there is no easy way, but I wish there were. Thank you guys all the same, we're in a very dificul situation.

Looks like there is no way you can show any proof of a relationship whilst she was living in this country legally. However, the rules with regard to obtaining a visa only state that you must have met personally and I know of at least one member here who met and married his wife on his first visit to the Philippines, so you could still go to the Philippines and get married on, what would be seen as, your first visit.

The only problems are 1: that you would have to be apart for a while, and 2: getting back to the Philippines without having her passport stamped. Firstly, I think she should look into Pete's suggestion below. Or alternatively, I just wonder if she could perhaps go via a third country where passports are not routinely stamped on two separately booked flights. Don't ask me where, you'd have to look into that.

I understand it can be arranged locally for an express fee, (you will have to find this out through other Filipinos)

Iain.