Gina Flies to Cebu - for the CFO Seminar

[peterdavid]

The CFO - what a load of absolute cobblers. Sounds like they're getting worse. Sheer crab mentality - jealousy.

500 pesos is enough to turn a corrupt filipino employee and get you that stamp if they get arsey.

And anyway, even if they say no, it's irrelevant. Buy a return ticket to Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, etc, fly there, (no CFO stamp needed), then buy a ticket to London and forget the return flight.

The philippines, with its laughbly deluded sense of importance, has still failed to realise that its nonsense laws and restrictions on freedom are completely ignored by the modern world, who couldn't care less if there is a CFO stamp in the passport before allowing you to fly to the UK (visa is all that counts), and who happily ignore the nonsense Philippines instruction banning filipinos from travelling to Iraq.

Once she's out of that country, you're home free. Maybe 1 in 100 immigration guards genuinely wish you well as your filipina travels on to her new life in a less backward country. The rest let you through with gritted teeth, overwhelmed with crab mentality and seething that one of their own has managed to escape her slavery there, and with a foreigner as well!

Get her out of that hellhole and don't look back!!

[ginapeterb]

LOL :lol: I hear you Peter, I read your post and cant stop LOL, everything you say is want I want to say, but I can't believe that its costing me £100.00 to get a poxy emigrant stamp in Gina's passport, I am just relaying the information that is coming from Gina as she does battle with that pathetic piss poor excuse for a commission, what a joke.

I agree, soon she will be out of that self important collection of corrupt Islands, that the rest of the world laughs at on a daily basis.

[peterdavid]

£100?? It makes you pig-sick doesn't it.

If the system is unchanged from before, they'll give her a form to fill in once she's in England, to be sent back to the Philippines within 2 weeks of arrival (they dont provide postage though, what a surprise) and it's got all sorts of backwards questions on it like "have the British local government/social service authorities treated you with respect", etc, ie, all the things filipino authorities DON'T DO, as if they are then going to do something about it if for example "your new in-laws haven't made you feel welcome" (another question - can't remember what the actual questions were but they were along those lines). How we laughed at the absurd backward questions as we ripped it up and threw it straight in the bin.

It's almost as dumb as the British Embassy staff security clearance check which all Embassy staff have to go through. One of the questions is "have you ever been involved in terrorism, yes or no". Err...duuhhh. Why would anyone tick yes?

What this dumb commission is too stupid to work out for itself is: If the very 'nightmare' they're trying to pretend they're helping to avoid happens (ie, a filipina finds herself with an abusive foreign husband in a strange country), why on earth would he allow her to fill in a form and tick the NO box next to "has your new husband made you feel welcome" or the YES box for "does he beat you"? And then allow her to go and work out how to post it back to the Philippines, and give her the money to pay for postage. If they can't even provide a prepaid envelope, how are they going to be any help whatsoever to a filipina in a foreign country?? Idiots.

Still, gives us all a laugh. The Philippines makes it such a confrontational and anti-foreigner system, that once you've rescued one of them from that hellhole, you can't help but laugh at them for their ineptitude.

[ginapeterb]

If the system is unchanged from before, they'll give her a form to fill in once she's in England, to be sent back to the Philippines within 2 weeks of arrival (they dont provide postage though, what a surprise) and it's got all sorts of backwards questions on it like "have the British local government/social service authorities treated you with respect", etc, ie, all the things filipino authorities DON'T DO, as if they are then going to do something about it if for example "your new in-laws haven't made you feel welcome" (another question - can't remember what the actual questions were but they were along those lines). How we laughed at the absurd backward questions as we ripped it up and threw it straight in the bin.

Well didnt know about that one Peter, so she gets a form to fill in, asking "Does your husband beat you", this is incredible, who do these people think they are ? its the biggest case of State Interference, I have ever seen, talk about the Nanay state, interfering, what a joke, I will have fun when i see that form, and thats a great one "Have your new in laws made you feel welcome ?" She will put this, "My new in laws dont even talk to their son my husband, and dont make him feel welcome, but they like me ! hehehehehehehehehe

I cant wait to see what happens next ?

Where do these people come from, what planet do they live on ? what is all this crap that Filipinos have to go through, have you noticed whenever you see A Filipino or Young Filipina walking around, they always have a plastic wallett style folder full of bits of paper, the whole society runs on bits of paper, they always have it, have you noticed, having said that, I know of a freind of my freind who is American, he has put in for his Wife's visa over 1 year ago, at the Nebraska Service Centre, they have sent the file to Manila, which should be another 6 weeks, he has been told that the file is in "Transit" and we all know what that means.

Sometimes we moan about the British Procedures, but I really feel for the U.S. Guys, do they have to do some waiting, many of them as much as 2 years to get their girl over, and then have to face being declined.

I think I will really look forward to seeing sight of this Q and A form, from those idiots down at the CFO...

[ginapeterb]

Well as the saga runs on, I did here briefly from Gina today, although only by text message to let me know that she had completed the CFO Seminar however as i had previously said, She cannot fly back to Bacolod tonight, she requires to stay another night and collect her Certificate of Cross Cultural orientation tomorrow at the CFO-DFA and then her emigrant stamp, I have yet to get any idea as to how she saw the whole experience, but no doubt she will tell me tomorrow.

[ginapeterb]

The CFO Seminar - the way it was !

Gina and I had a chat today, and I got the following out of her regarding her CFO Experience.

Firstly, the registration went smooth at 9.30am, then the applicants were asked to come back at 1.30pm for the counselling session at St Mary's Euphrasia Foundation.

The session lasted 2 hours, starting with a video called "Magandang Gabi - Bayan" its basically a look at pitfalls, that occur between Foreigners and Filipinos, the video showed first

1. A Story about an Australian guy who got his wife to strip nude and took glamour photos of her, and she appeared in a magazine.

2. An American from Tennessee who got his wife to open up a joint account with him, then after she transferred her savings from Philippines, got her to sign some papers, and she found out after returning home to the Philippines, that they were divorce papers.

3. An Australian guy who married his filipina wife, murdered her for the life insurance.


Apart from that, not much else, after the video, the applicants were then given a series of advices, including being given the details of the various Philippine Embassies in their respective countries of destination in case they needed help, also names of groups in those countries that can help them if the husband starts beating them up.

Then they were given some more advice about what to expect, with documentation, and information about what type of visas they had, and how long they were valid for.

At the end of the 2 hour session each applicant was then interviewed for 5 minutes about their relationship, questions such as, "How well do you know him", "What is his favourite colour, etc" then at the end, they were told to come back the next morning and collect their certificates of attendance, and their emigrant stamps.


Thats it folks, not much else to tell. an anti climax dont you think


Happy reading.