hi rayoflight, our agency that we get for assistance is from cebu city..not to far in cdo. my hubby like to have an agency here in phil so that its easy for me to communicate and assist me on the process. the reason also why we hire a agency here in phil than everywhere else,to assure that all there services that they offer in net is true and not a scam...coz money should be valued...but so far the agency that we hired is doing there job and really help us to the entire process.....yup were in waiting vain now...we will just be patient and pray always...by the way ray, did you apply your visa here in the phil?..just wanna know..tnx