Quote Originally Posted by PeterUK View Post
Thanks Guys for Info. So looking at the above documents as my GF is still married and obviously cant produce a CENOMAR does that mean they will refuse the citizenship to my daughter.

I was under the impression that from Jul 2006 they did not take this into account and as long as one of the parents was UK citizen otherwise than by descent it is automatically passed onto my daughter. We have been together for some 5 years now and didnt start the Annulment process until my gf came back from working overseas.

The rest of the docs I have and can even get the photos together when she was pregnant. Jim I take it because your Mrs divorce in Korea was not registered in the Phils you didnt provide a CENOMAR.

We started the annulment process over a year ago but got fleeced by a lawyer there that was recommended to us by one of her friends. After a year and paying him 75K in installments we found out that over that period he had done NOTHING my Mrs took it to the court in the Phils and he was ordered to return the money but as of yet and 4 months since the ruling not got a penny back. We have to go back to court and file another one now just so he gets a baliffs order. Oh well we all learn from our mistakes. Have a new decent lawyer now and starting the whole process from scratch.
Peter we just gave them everything we had Ana's divorce should be recognised but so far isn't.

We got fleeced by our first laywer for 40,000 peso same as you he did nothing that was back in 2006 he wasted 18 months of our time but by an accident he got Ana to go somewhere where she could get real help and things have been a lot better since. We are now coming up for our third hearing for recognition of Ana's divorce and hope it will be done by the end of this year, but our case is not really an annulment so it's not exactly the same as your's.

The reason I said to get the DNA test done is because your situation is so similar to ours that I know you are just wasting your time trying to do it via the documents, I guarantee that the embassy will demand a DNA test under that ancillary clause because your partner is still married, so you might as well get it done and not waste any more time.

Basically you need to prove you are you, Passports and Birth Certificate if possible, your partner also needs to prove she is who she says she is again passport birth certificate and the existing marriage certificate, these ID's will be photographed along with photographs being taken of you your partner and your daughter at the time a blood sample is taken from you. You will sign various papers at the DNA lab, if you do all of this at an accredited lab in the Phils the Brit Embassy there will accept it. Any procedure that you try outside the Phils is going to be tricky in terms of the authorities believing the identity of your partner.

The test will prove that you have a child by a partner but you also have to prove that the partner is who she says she is and that her details are all traceable in the Phils.

So what I am saying is if you get it done in the Phils that side is easier, outside the Phils you have a harder time proving who she is but maybe passport and birth certificate will be enough.

The British authorities will not accept the results of samples sent off to a Lab that you say are from you your partner and your child, they want the tests done in a legally sound environment, UP was accredited for DNA evidence in the Philippine courts but they warned us that they were not sure if the British Embassy would accept their results, we called the embassy and the said yes they would accept UP as a testing Lab.

Basically yes your daughter is British, the fact her mother is still married does not matter, as far as the Brit embassy and Philippine Government are concerned my partner is still married to the Korean she divorced 14 years ago and they still gave us my daughters passport.

Give me a few minutes I will get a picture of it as absolute proof

Here we go.