Hi there
Well back to the amount of time it takes to get married in Phils. It looks like where you slipped up before, was in the CNI. This can be a little confusing, but there is a thread somewhere on here about this. I though shall summarise, you might not even then need to find this thread.
The confusing is - you don't have to wait that 28 days in Phils for the CNI. Right your fiance needs to apply for it in the UK. He needs to go to a registry office a month at least before he is due to come over to Phils, and request this. It takes the 28 days here instead.
He needs also to e-mail the embassy in Manila (or there are places in another city........sorry I've woken up early and I'm sort of zonked, I'll wake up soon), to make an appointment to swap this CNI he will get from the UK, for a local one.
This you take to the council office or wherever in the town you are getting married in, they will then after 10 days wait give you a marriage licence which you can use to get married.
You can of course - and obviously must - see the priest or wherever long before this to make the arrangements to get married. They can't actually marry you before the licence is issued, but obviously everyone knows it's on its way, so as long as you marry that 10 days after issue, everything is fine.
So to look at a critical path. Say you arrive in Phils on the 1st, you have the appointment on the 2nd (remember - e-mail as far in advance as possible to get the day you want, if it's over a month in advance then it's near certain you will get the day you want at the embassy, oh and they are usually early morning). Take that local CNI to the council office say on the 3rd (allowing travel time), and you can marry on the 13th. That's less than 2 weeks.
Now this needs planning, however as you can see it can be done. Make sure you have absolutely everything you need. As I say there is a thread on here somewhere, I shall find it and post later if you want (I need to go back to bed in a moment for a while, or someone else might post the link). There are other things you need.
Oh one example of other things is your CENOMAR and one for him too. You obviously will know how to order one of these, He also needs one (I know, I know - just to show he never married in Phils). You need certain information from him about mothers name etc and this can be ordered by you or your family before he arrives - in fact this is pretty essential really. He could also order it over the internet to be posted to your family - it could for more money be posted to the UK but this takes a lot longer and frankly why on earth do this!
Just make sure he brings absolutely everything you need to get married, check and check again.
Oh and a personal tip - make sure at the council office that marriage licence is absolutely 100% correct. The officials sometimes get confused with birth dates, also sometimes confused that his mother doesn't have her last name before she got married as her middle name - they don't do that in the UK, she just changes her last name but keeps her middle name
Good luck
Originally Posted by joebloggs
hardly anyone on here has used an agency, if your case is straight forward there is no need for one, why waste money paying someone else to do what most people on here have done for them self, after all its you that will have to get all the evidence together and meet the criteria (income, accommodation, genuine relationship) not the agency, so most of the work you will have to do yourself anyway - as this will decide on whether visa is granted or not
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I wish I joined this forum site before he went here for the first time we could've been married then. I didn't know this site existed though.. This is a big help to us 
<--- have a hug.
it is, Mariam ... Goodluck with it! 
And thank u...
But can please someone give us a checklist or pointers? I would really appreciate it.I wanna know too,about how much savings he needs as well.
