Marrying and going to live in Cebu...help please!

[baboyako]

my sister is a nurse & she says the nhs is crap. The only 2 times I've needed it I had to stump up the cash myself (over 1k each time) & go private.

It might be good for the minority that require intensive therapy, but for the average tax payer it's a money pit. A friend of mine has a spine problem & she is being asked 50k for the operation, or wait until she is incontinent before she can have the op

I'm with Beacon & would leave blighty like a shot. If you prefer cool weather, go and live 2000feet up - much cooler than city/beach.

Unfortunatly, as everyone knows, the salaries only come near to what we get here in either HK or singsing

[joebloggs]

oh nhs again, my wife has a degree in biology and a degree in medicine, she also passed the board exam in manila the 1st time, the pay for a doc in pinoyland is less than £200 a month, some of her professors have and are training to be nurses so they can work here in the UK, when my wife started applying for jobs here in the UK. she had to apply for jobs which she was well over qualidied for, as she has to take exams here to register as a doc.. like an english exam!!, she told them she had a degree in bio and another in medicine, she applied for 100+ jobs, its only when they started saying she was over qualified, she took off her Cv her med degree, and just said she been to med school for 3 yrs, she works for the nhs now, and its is average pay, but shes passed her ielts and will take plab1 and plab2 so she can work as a doc here, thats where the money is, specialised nursing, dentistry and as a doc..

the nhs is a good emplyer if you specialise in an area. a pension ! , pay increase every year, discounts for shops/palces. and up to 35 days hol a yr, well compare to where i work, no pension, no pay increase this year again !, 21 days hol a yr, and not even thanks !!... and lower pay.

[zyra_zzz]

Maybe this will help too. We had a civil wedding here in the Philippines and these is what they ask us to produce. For the woman, Birth certificate from NSO, and witnesses for the wedding. For the foreinger guy, devorce paper if you are devorced,birth certificate and capacity to get married from your embassy. Me and my husband went to the emigration and told them that he intended to stay in the Philippines so they ask him to apply for Permanent resident but before he can have Permanent resident,he will still have to get temporary resident which is good for one year. (That is if the application will be approved) by the way, his application was approved so he was issued CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCE(TEMPORARY). Now, we submitted all the paperwork for his application for Permanent Residence. We hope to get the result this January.

Base on what you said, you are really apt to living here in the Philippine soon but be prepared because you will soon notice the difference living here from where you came from: GOOD LUCK

[baboyako]

For the foreinger guy, devorce paper if you are devorced,birth certificate and capacity to get married from your embassy.

there are local rules that apply also.... its not so easy

[Beacon]

Maybe this will help too. We had a civil wedding here in the Philippines and these is what they ask us to produce. For the woman, Birth certificate from NSO, and witnesses for the wedding. For the foreinger guy, devorce paper if you are devorced,birth certificate and capacity to get married from your embassy. Me and my husband went to the emigration and told them that he intended to stay in the Philippines so they ask him to apply for Permanent resident but before he can have Permanent resident,he will still have to get temporary resident which is good for one year. (That is if the application will be approved) by the way, his application was approved so he was issued CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCE(TEMPORARY). Now, we submitted all the paperwork for his application for Permanent Residence. We hope to get the result this January.

Base on what you said, you are really apt to living here in the Philippine soon but be prepared because you will soon notice the difference living here from where you came from: GOOD LUCK

Hi Zyra

My G/f read your post. We both agreed that this is some of the best advice we have had soo far...it is very refreshing to hear from a Filipina on here who actually has done what we are setting out to do in PH.

We want to do something similar in terms of marriage. Sadly I have to come back after we marry next year (summer of 2007) and spend a year here to pay off a few debts and continue to save enough money to go back but hopefully by mid 2008 I will be in a position to do this to make the move.

I did appreciate your comment that I seem apt to llive there. Unlike some people here I am interested and respectful of your culture and when I was briely there in the suimmer I did feel that I fitted right in.

I am aware of how different things are.

Once again thank you for your advice.
regards
Beacon