Urgent Help Please - advice on marriage license etc

[Terpe]

As already mentioned the CNI is available from your local registry office. It takes 22 days from time of application. It's 21 days for the 'bans'.
For Philippines the CNI has only 3 months validity from date of issue, so don't get it too early.

I suggest you always check for the latest information for paperwork needed etc but in principle to apply for the Marriage License in the Philippines you should consider having the following:-

Your birth certificate
Your passport
Your C.N.I.
Your NSO CENOMAR (if needed, please check well beforehand)
Your Divorce decree asbsolute (if applicable)

Certificate of 'Pre-Marriage Seminar' (if needed, please check well beforehand)

Her N.S.O. birth certificate (This should be fresh from NSO on latest type of security paper. Check)
Her Passport (or other appropriate ID)
Her Barangay clearance (if needed, please check well beforehand)
Her community tax certificate (often called Cedula)
Her postal I.D. Address
Her CENOMAR
Her Parents signed advice form (for under 25 years)
Her Parents I.D.


Apply for the marriage license in your fiancée's home town (or locality of where marriage will take place)
You will most likely also be requested to attend that previously "Pre-Marriage Seminar" counselling sessions prior to being allowed to be married. Do check and ask when you apply for the marriage license

After you apply for the license there is a mandatory 10 day waiting period while the marriage banns are published

Hope this helps you

[DeltaRomeo]

Your NSO CENOMAR (if needed, please check well beforehand)

Her Barangay clearance (if needed, please check well beforehand)

A CENOMAR for myself? I have onlyvisited the Philippines once so far.
Just researching what we will need later in the year... to get our own marriage licence.

with these 'if needed's - where or who will we find that requirement information from?

[Terpe]

A CENOMAR for myself? I have onlyvisited the Philippines once so far.
Just researching what we will need later in the year... to get our own marriage licence.

with these 'if needed's - where or who will we find that requirement information from?

The 'if needed' comments are simply because there are so many variations depending on where you plan get married. Some folks will say certain documents are not needed and others will say they are needed. The objective should always be to enjoy a smooth process with no delays and unexpected expenses etc.

Your fiancee will be the one to find out. Usually by securing information about what is required for a marriage at the place where you will actually get married.

The best and safest strategy of course is to get all those documents anyway regardless of what anyone tells you.