For a person who has a Filipino annulment to declare themselves as single in UK would probably be incorrect. For example, when a divorced person gets married again, they are single but in law are divorced. To state single would not be a legal statement and probably could result in a prosecution..
Filipinos thought once the annulment is done then her status is annulled not single.
The Registrar General corrected that, they said the status should be "single".
because a person whose marriage has been declared "void ab initio" meaning
a marriage never took place therefore...... she is single now....
unlike Divorce
once a person is divorced he should have the present status as "divorced".
Because even it is the counterpart of annulment in the Phils
divorced means legal dissolution of marriage ( a marriage took place) but was dissolved.
This was the explanation of the Registry Officer. A lawyer can explain more about this..
