Hi everyone

[quickwillow]

Hi everyone,
I've just found this great site and have been looking around for some of the answers to my questions, but keep going off in all directions.
So far I've found it helpful as my fiancée has just had an annulment. We plan to marry later in the year, but need to ask some advice as she has a son and we want to know if he can come here(UK) when we apply for a fiancée visa but for now I will keep lookin

[acs]

hello quickwillow welcome to the forum ...im sure the child of your fiancee ( soon to be wife) can come here in the UK also and there's no problem on that as long as your lady has the sole custody of her child

[DaveUK]

Welcome to the forum mate!

[empott]

Hi welcome to the forum. Keep searchin' and you will find what you are lookin' for.

[quickwillow]

Thanks DaveUK

I see your not so far from me ..... cheers Mark

[quickwillow]

Thanks ACS
That’s the kind of info I'm here looking for.... the requirements relating to bringing a child and mother at the same time I can find lot of info from the government website about adopting once she is here, but not a lot on, if its possible to bring the kid (my future son) with here at the same time and all the red tape I'm sure that will go along with this process

[Florge]

welcome!!!

[quickwillow]

Hi Florge, thanks for the welcome, I'm still trying to work out how to use the site hehe

[joebloggs]

Thanks ACS
That’s the kind of info I'm here looking for.... the requirements relating to bringing a child and mother at the same time I can find lot of info from the government website about adopting once she is here, but not a lot on, if its possible to bring the kid (my future son) with here at the same time and all the red tape I'm sure that will go along with this process

yes it is, someone has done that recently on here..

http://filipinaroses.com/showthread.php?t=11835
and
http://filipinaroses.com/showthread.php?t=11421

good luck

[quickwillow]

Hey thanks for the info I keep getting side tracked here .. it's a great wealth of info and peoples experiences

[Ann07]

Welcome to the forum You are in the right place

[Ana_may365]

hiya!welcome aboard

[scott&ligaya]

welcome here, I am glad you have read Simons story (SIM11) it is a great testament to what love and dedication can do. When you are banging your head against the red tape on your journey to get your fiancee and so here in the UK just remember that perseverence will win out and remember this site for some uplifting support when you need it.... (KIMMI you might be needed with your pom poms again).

have a good easter

Scott

[kimmi]

hi Quickwillow,

welcome to the forum..

just make sure u've got all the documents needed for their application (fiancee and her child) and everything will be ok..

we've got lots of threads/posts with the same situation u are right now and so far most of them are fortunate and happy now living with their love ones here in the UK..

Goodluck and if most of us managed to do it, I am sure u also can..

...

[girl england]

hello quickwillow welcome to the forum

[tiN]

Welcome to the forum

[mavid]

Welcome to the forum.

[ANDRES25]

warm welcome to you!

[quickwillow]

Hi Scot it was a great story with a happy ending and hopefuly a new thread, I've been banging my head for 2 yrs + for an annulment just happy to move on to the next step and want to make sure I get it right first time. As for this ... never

[keithAngel]

Hi and welcome as you have just completed the annulment process please if you will share the experience , where it was filed what your impression was and of course what happened financialy

[Pepe n Pilar]

Welcome to the informative forum quickwillow

[irobot]

Irobot..." Sunny...Different From The Rest..."

Hi quickwillow... Welcome To The Forum... I`m in North-Somerset...W~s~M Area...Phil...

[quickwillow]

Hi KeithAngel,


The word nightmare springs to mind is it has been a lengthy and costly affair with 2 Attorney’s the first done some of the work like filing the case, arranging a psychology report, submitting this to the court along with arranging a notice in the news paper as her ex is working in the US.
It seemed to be going along Filipino style slow and steady but it gave me no cause for concern at this point until it all went quite.
My fiancée was told for months to wait, what for I kept asking but she couldn’t tell me, I started to realize that it was all going wrong when he wouldn’t return her calls. I told her to ask her father help, I wanted him to go and speak to the judge and find out what the problem was. He came back to me and said there was a lack of evidence for get annuled, the judge wanted proof that her ex has kids in the US he wanted the kids birth certificates huh !!! I kept thinking how crazy this was, is she on trail here? What was her crime? Did I miss something?
She has had no contact with him, and even through his family he didn’t reply to the Attn. about the case.
Then it dawned on me, the last payment I sent to the Attn. for the judge it was never given to him.
I was aware right from the start from a family friend who was an Attn. that the judge needed paying (corruption hmmm?) this was also verified from another guy I met in her home town who had gone through the process.
Both guys had been accurate with the charges for the psychology report, newspaper notices, filing of the case etc. except the last payment that never got to the judge so the case stopped.
Anyway I told her to go and speak to another Attn. for advice. He got the evidence together quickly most of it already done, the new judge wanted 25,000 and the attn 30,000. She was had a court appearance within 3 weeks of payment.
She gave her side of the story and it was adjourned for another 2 weeks for the psychologist to be called to give evidence. I think she had to go back 1 more time for questioning then the annulment was granted. You know all this really made my fiancée ashamed and embarrassed to go through the court questioning when she hasn’t done anything wrong apart from marrying a stupid guy that left her with a baby. All said and done it’s been about 16 months. There is just 1 more catch she is still waiting for the paperwork waaaaaaaa but she should have it by 15th May. I wont be too surprised if there is another charge grrrrrrr but no more delays please!!!

[quickwillow]

hi Irobot,

Yor just up the road from me cheers

[LEAHnew]

Hi welcome to the forum and Goodluck

[IainBusby]

Hi KeithAngel,


The word nightmare springs to mind is it has been a lengthy and costly affair with 2 Attorney’s the first done some of the work like filing the case, arranging a psychology report, submitting this to the court along with arranging a notice in the news paper as her ex is working in the US.
It seemed to be going along Filipino style slow and steady but it gave me no cause for concern at this point until it all went quite.
My fiancée was told for months to wait, what for I kept asking but she couldn’t tell me, I started to realize that it was all going wrong when he wouldn’t return her calls. I told her to ask her father help, I wanted him to go and speak to the judge and find out what the problem was. He came back to me and said there was a lack of evidence for get annuled, the judge wanted proof that her ex has kids in the US he wanted the kids birth certificates huh !!! I kept thinking how crazy this was, is she on trail here? What was her crime? Did I miss something?
She has had no contact with him, and even through his family he didn’t reply to the Attn. about the case.
Then it dawned on me, the last payment I sent to the Attn. for the judge it was never given to him.
I was aware right from the start from a family friend who was an Attn. that the judge needed paying (corruption hmmm?) this was also verified from another guy I met in her home town who had gone through the process.
Both guys had been accurate with the charges for the psychology report, newspaper notices, filing of the case etc. except the last payment that never got to the judge so the case stopped.
Anyway I told her to go and speak to another Attn. for advice. He got the evidence together quickly most of it already done, the new judge wanted 25,000 and the attn 30,000. She was had a court appearance within 3 weeks of payment.
She gave her side of the story and it was adjourned for another 2 weeks for the psychologist to be called to give evidence. I think she had to go back 1 more time for questioning then the annulment was granted. You know all this really made my fiancée ashamed and embarrassed to go through the court questioning when she hasn’t done anything wrong apart from marrying a stupid guy that left her with a baby. All said and done it’s been about 16 months. There is just 1 more catch she is still waiting for the paperwork waaaaaaaa but she should have it by 15th May. I wont be too surprised if there is another charge grrrrrrr but no more delays please!!!

Hi Mark,
Welcome to the forum. You can be almost certain that there will be another charge. Don't be surprised if you fiancee hears nothing from the court or her attorney because they will want her to think there is a holdup and when she does eventually contact them, they will say their has been a problem and she'll have to pay for some other ficticious administrative procedure or other. I think you'll find that when it comes to the end game, that she is not only fighting the court, but also the greed of her own attorney who will also be scamming her and they are usually quite practised at this sort of thing when they know that a foreigner is involved. In fact in some cases, it is not even the judge but only her own attorney who is holding out for another bung.

The best way to deal with this is to tell them that what ever amount of money they are asking for will only be paid when the paperwork is handed over. If you do this then their greed will get the better of them. Otherwise something else will come up and another payment will be asked for.

Iain.

[quickwillow]

Thanks for the advice Iain, I will try this as I'm sure this going on.
I guess you have had problems also huh?

[sarahlee]

ya im new here in forum ,im happy coz loads of ideas and support,welcome quickwillow

[IainBusby]

Thanks for the advice Iain, I will try this as I'm sure this going on.
I guess you have had problems also huh?

Yea, different process, but the same hassle. We didn't go through the annulment route, we used presumptive death instead because it's much quicker, but any dealings with attorneys and courts in Phils seem to go the same way if they (the attorneys and and judges etc) know that a whitey is involved.

Once they know that, it's just one extra payment after another, even though they've already charged you maybe 10 times more initially than they would charge a Filipino. The thing that really gets me so angry in the Philippines is that the richer they are, officials, attorneys and judges ect, the greedier they get.
Iain.

[quickwillow]

Yeah makes me sick too they already live very comfortably there, as far a how many people know a whitey is involved it’s just the attorney. I think he was playing the nice guy when he said it was better not to say I was involved or just greedy, anyway I don't trust them in the Philippines or here.
Can I ask you Iain how long after the annulment decision was made did you wait to receive the paper work, I read after 15 days but the judge said 3 months what do you think? What should we expect to receive and were the your kids mentioned on this as to who has custody?