Thank you all for your replies - hopefully we can get this sped up as it's very frustrating process going backwards and forwards from town hall to provincial capital to island capital (Pilar- Roxas - Iloilo) trying to sort it out, and then it all still has to go to Manila....

I will be out there soon again - was hoping it would be to collect my wife and bring her back with me, but guess we're going to have to wait

Thanks again.