We would be pushing it if we could not fit the seminar in the 10 day waiting period. I have only planned to be the full 21 days that my visa will let me. I know i can pay for another week but i will have my return flight booked.Originally Posted by lastlid
As i have been told on here, 21 days will be enough, i just getting more and more nervy the closer it all gets.
Rory, 21 days will be enough just as long as you and your Fiancee get all the correct ID's and paperwork and have all the organisational 'ducks lined up' ready to go.
90% of cases get done and dusted between 14-21 days.
Just remember it's the Philippines and things can go wrong.
As an Engineer, I always think postive and always plan for the worst. Well it works for me
It's not difficult if you make a good plan that's not too tight. Your fiancee can help a lot to get things organised.
Be sure to be very focussed on getting married and enjoying the day,
Do not get diverted from the basics.
Do not get talked into anything that might create delays or problems.
Good luck.
Yes. You have more time to get through the necessaries than we had. That breathing space that Terpe refers to is available to you in a 21 day time frame that wasnt there in our case. Our time frame was a little tighter. Also, we couldnt do the CNI exchange in one day (June 2011) but it sounds like since they changed it to an appointment system it may be possible to do it in 1 day giving a full day back to your schedule.
We took our honeymoon in the 10 day gap. That worked well.
To be perfectly honest, I sweated a little over the first few days, owing to the tight schedule, which did take a little bit of the gloss off things. I adopted a bit of an ostrich approach to it. But everything went to plan despite some typhoon dodging upon arrival and once we had got the advanced wedding ceremony done and dusted (day 6) it was downhill from then on in. We also had an added area for concern which was the Isle of Man factor but it turned out okay, thank god.
Our time line...
Day 1 Thursday. Dropped of UK (Isle of Man in our case) CNI to embassy.
Day 2 Collected local CNI
Day 3 Saturday
Day 4 Sunday
Day 5 Delivered all required documents to agent and visited civic hall in Paranaquay with preliminary paperwork. Couldnt do this on the friday as we were only able to collect the local CNI in mid afternoon. And you know what the Manila traffic is like.
Day 6 Advanced wedding ceremony and wedding reception.
Day 7 and onwards...honeymoon and flight home after the 10 days had elapsed. My wife collected the marriage certificates about a month later.
You should be able to do it more comfortably than us. We were struggling for a Plan B but you should be okay......
We able to collect our local CNI at the same day, we just waited about 30 mins there at the embassy.
So did we...only problem was that halfway through the wedding someone at City Hall noticed that there were some spelling differences between the British and the Filipino docs (fiancee's name)....so had to go back to the embassy THEN to get corrected !
That's why I tell people NOT to rely on everything going smoothly as planned.
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