we have been communicating online for nearly 12 months.Phil finally managed to meet me in cebu in feb this year.We stayed together for 5 weeks until Phil had to go back to UK.We really found we loved eachother very much and wanted to eventually get married ( here or uk ).We got engaged while we were together.Since we have been seperated we have joined this excellent forum.and apalogise for our ignorance to the facts,we have read many articles and were told by friends who had applied for fiance visa that there was a good chance we would be refused because it was best to marry first .