I have just got married to my wife in the Philippines and have applied for the settlement visas of her and my step daughter just two weeks ago. So now we join the line and wait! And I would like to say that this forum has been a great help with lots of sound and relevant advice. Long may it continue!
Just want to share you this story. I travelled out to marry my wife just after her annulment came through. I had already got my CNI from the UK but due to a misunderstanding on my part We only had an NSO copy of her annotated marriage contract that showed it was annulled. We did not have a cenomar. So the embassy would not give me my local CNI. So we had to apply cenomar from the NSO which can take two weeks and as it was being done over the xmas period I thought that our chance of getting married before i had to return home was gone. As it turned out the cenomar came in just one week and we got married with just four days to spare!
But the story is that my wife applied cenomar over the phone and I made a seperate application on the internet just in case her application was left in somebodies inbox.
We received both of the cenomars from the NSO on the same day. The one she got had a record of her previous marriage (as you would expect) but the one i got had no record of any marriage!
I questioned this with the attourney who handled our annullment case. She said the NSO make many mistakes! Indeed she has an American client now who applied cenomar for his fiancee which came back no recorded marriage. So he went ahead and married her and applied the settlement visa. The embassy did their own checks and it came back with a recorded marriage for her! So he is left with a bigamus marriage and a visa refusal all because somebody at the NSO did not dig deeply enough! ouch!
