Commission on filipino overseas (registered)

[-sillybilly-]

Doesnt really matter what they asked you as long as you have filled out the application form correctly and it matches your answer during your interview...its up to you to make a story.
The only thing they will ask you more is when you give them a doubtful information.

DFA will not accept your application to get a new passport, renewal or change of name if you do not have a CFO certificate of Guidance and Counselling.

[johncar54]

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DFA will not accept your application to get a new passport, renewal or change of name if you do not have a CFO certificate of Guidance and Counselling.

My wife changed the name on her passport at the P.I. consulate in Madrid without that cert. So maybe the requirement is 'flexible.'

[-sillybilly-]

My wife changed the name on her passport at the P.I. consulate in Madrid without that cert. So maybe the requirement is 'flexible.'

It only applies if you are in the Philippines to women applying for their passport using their foreign spouse names. And all are required before they leave the country.

[johncar54]

It only applies if you are in the Philippines to women applying for their passport using their foreign spouse names. And all are required before they leave the country.

That seems a little ambiguous.

My wife left the Philippines using her passport, in her maiden name, although we were married and travelling together. She of course had an exit stamp.

I suspect that if a person is travelling with a westerner they maybe less likely to attract problems.

[-sillybilly-]

That seems a little ambiguous.

My wife left the Philippines using her passport, in her maiden name, although we were married and travelling together. She of course had an exit stamp.

I suspect that if a person is travelling with a westerner they maybe less likely to attract problems.

Your wife is using her old passport and did not go through the new system and policy law of the DFA.

[johncar54]

It only applies if you are in the Philippines to women applying for their passport using their foreign spouse names. And all are required before they leave the country.

That seems a little ambiguous.

My wife left the Philippines using her passport, in her maiden name, although we were married and travelling together. She of course had an exit stamp.

I suspect that if a person is travelling with a westerner they maybe less likely to attract problems.

[malditako]

My wife changed the name on her passport at the P.I. consulate in Madrid without that cert. So maybe the requirement is 'flexible.'

same with me john..change my name last 2008...they never ask for cfo certificate what i just submitted is our marriage contract and old passport...well of course i have attended that cfo thing before i left the country...what i can say is..they never met my expectations on what to get from training. I must say they need to hire more qualify individual to do the counselling...and goodness sake can they offer more than just watching a very old video film...haisss

not worth a penny and time....they only bring more stress and paper works

[-sillybilly-]

same with me john..change my name last 2008...they never ask for cfo certificate what i just submitted is our marriage contract and old passport...well of course i have attended that cfo thing before i left the country...what i can say is..they never met my expectations on what to get from training. I must say they need to hire more qualify individual to do the counselling...and goodness sake can they offer more than just watching a very old video film...haisss

not worth a penny and time....they only bring more stress and paper works

and scare the pinays of meeting foreign guys!
Mind you there was once who quited going abroad to join her fiance because of watching those films....
trying to discourage filipino women...? huh!