DAVE,Originally Posted by dave65
thanks guys for all the advice had i known at the time we would have called in to the NSO office when were in manila on the way to our honeymoonand hand delivered it
we had no idea this would be such a problem
just wish i was still there so i could call into these offices personally unfortunatly i had to return to england after the honeymoonand as many of you guys know being apart waiting for paperwork to come through is awful will let you know how it all goes
Dave
Just get your wife to call in at the NSO Local office and ask for secpa, its a shortened form the NSO Marriage Contract issued by them at Quezon City, the paperwork should not take more than 2-3 weeks to be returned, 6 months is ludicrous, and what you can do is use a fixer at QC to obtain it quickly for you, for the usual brown envelope under the table, this amounts to very little normally around P500 or less, but secpa will do the job for the purpose of obtaining a visa at British Embassy, they are well aware of the problems with security paper marriage contracts.
This has been a common problem for visa applicants as far back as I can remember, best of luck.
Pete
