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[Terpe]

yes we want to get married once annulment is granted

OK Brian, this is why it's so difficult to give specific advice. This is the first time you've mentioned annulment and that she is already married.
So look, spouse visa and fiancee visa are no-go. She's just not free to marry.

There are only two options for you:-

1. Secure annulment and then apply for spouse or fiancee visa as normal.
2. Try for the unmarried partner visa. Amongst other things you would need to prove evidence of 2 years co-habitation akin to marriage.

I know that you've been living together in Cebu for the past year.

It's only correct to tell you that living with a married women in the Phils is technically adultery and that carries severe punishment in prison. So you will need to be very very careful - maybe.

[tiger31]

OK Brian, this is why it's so difficult to give specific advice. This is the first time you've mentioned annulment and that she is already married.
So look, spouse visa and fiancee visa are no-go. She's just not free to marry.

There are only two options for you:-

1. Secure annulment and then apply for spouse or fiancee visa as normal.
2. Try for the unmarried partner visa. Amongst other things you would need to prove evidence of 2 years co-habitation akin to marriage.

I know that you've been living together in Cebu for the past year.

It's only correct to tell you that living with a married women in the Phils is technically adultery and that carries severe punishment in prison. So you will need to be very very careful - maybe.

yes i know all the risks but thats my situation .many people have said why pick a woman whos still married ? my reply is if a phillipina can,t afford annullment is it right that she lives the rest of her life in misery getting abused etc because she is poor .she has been seperated 4 years she has a right to be happy again in her life just like everyone else .the thing is many young philippina girls who marry at a young age are un aware just how much control there husbands have over them .the system is heavyly biased towards the men who are allowed to get away with mistresses etc .it is widely accepted that a phillipino has another woman on the side but if the girl does it she gets thrown in jail .when i lived there i saw some real dodgy things going on .for example 2 girls accross the road from me had foreign boyfriends from the states both had kids to them and once the boyfriends returned to the states their phillipino boyfriends moved back in to the house all living off the money that the boyfriends were sending them .a bit off topic but all the same lol my g f ex is too poor to file a case against her so getting jailed seems very remote we are 400 miles from him as well.