Granted spouse visa and my son's visa!!!!!

[Julie-Tom]

Thank you for this forum, it's been very helpful.

I received our passports today with the visa

This is our timeline,
July 30: application online
July 30: payment of visa fee
Sept 05: biometrics and application/requirements submitted
Sept 27: received email from the embassy
Oct 1: received passports with visa

Those who need to ask any question regarding my application are free to do so, I will respond soon as I can! just post it here.


As a summary these are the documents we submitted

I submitted:
Printed online visa application VAF4a
Appendix 2
Cover letter
Passport
Picture
Previous passports
Birth certificate
Marriage certificate
Previous marriage certificate with annotation (since I'm. Annulled)
Bank certificate And bank statements indicating bank transfers from my husband
My transcript of records
CFO certificate
TB test result
TOEIC result

my husband submitted:
Solicitor certified birth certificate
Solicitor certified copy of passport and all stamp pages
Solicitor certified divorce decree
Employment certificate
Employment contract
6 months pay slip
6 months bank statement
Letter from landlord
Pictures of the house and all rooms
Floor plan of the house
Photos from the date we met till our wedding day (63 photos in total)
Email screen shots (7 in total)
Facebook messages screen shots (4 in total)
Skype screen shots (21 in total)
Letter from my husbands sister indicating that she is one of the sponsors on our wedding and she met my family and son during the wedding
Cards we received from family and friends on our wedding
Cards I sent to my husband (including its envelope with post stamps)

For my son:
Online application form vaf4a
Appendix 2
Passport
Picture
School I.d.
Birth certificate
Cover letter from my husband
Cover letter from me
Sponsorship undertaking form
Affidavit of sole custody and responsibility
Annulment papers indicating my sole responsibility and sole custody
TB test result
Barangay certificate
School certificate
Dswd certificate and my solo parent I.d.
Church certificate
Baptismal certificate
Medical records
Phill health record

And photocopies of all the documents

Hope this help in anyway

[BoholoX]

Congrats

[Arjie]

Congrats Julie-Tom

[raynaputi]

Congrats!

[bigmarco]

Congratulations and all the very best for the future

[joebloggs]

[rani]

Cfo certificate? Is this needed as well?

[Arthur Little]

Julie ... Congratulations! Well done to you and Tom on successfully obtaining yours and your son's respective visas.

[stevie c]

Very pleased for you both

[Arthur Little]

Cfo certificate? Is this needed as well?

Yes ... , Rani! Well~remembered ...

... CFO attendance & sticker. Please note, Julie.

[andy222]

Congratulations to you all.

[songz777]

wishing you the very best for the future

[Michael Parnham]

Congratulations Julie-Tom,

[bigmac]

congratulations !!

i see you are annulled--are you able to go into details about this---like--how long did it take---how did you go about it?

[Julie-Tom]

Cfo certificate? Is this needed as well?

Hello Rani

Since I already changed my passport into my married name, it is needed to pass the cfo guidance and counseling certificate

[chino]

Congrats!

[Julie-Tom]

Yes ... , Rani! Well~remembered ...

... CFO attendance & sticker. Please note, Julie.

Hello Arthur, yes so excited to get my sticker still waiting the visa valid date, and I'm off to Manila and get it sorted out thank you

[Julie-Tom]

congratulations !!

i see you are annulled--are you able to go into details about this---like--how long did it take---how did you go about it?

Hello Big Mac, we filed for the annulment on February 2010 and the court declared it null and void October 2011.

You will need around 180k pesos or more depending on the basis of the annulment

The petitioner needs to meet a psychologist since the report will be needed on the hearing, on my case my attorney chose the psychologist. Next the petitioner will need to attend at least twice or thrice court hearings.

[grahamw48]

Congratulations and well done !

[Julie-Tom]

Big mac:

Also, the signature of the ex husband is needed for the case to proceed, they will send him a subpoena and he just need to sign the court copy, he doesn't need to attend the court hearing.

Hope that helps, you may want to contact a Philippine based attorney to inquire, it will be better if your gf knows the atty so the process will be on time and her annulment will be prioritized.

[Julie-Tom]

Thank you all I spent so much time reading the forums it is a great help

[gWaPito]

Julie ... Congratulations! Well done to you and Tom on successfully obtaining yours and your son's respective visas.

[tiger31]

congratulations although you probably did,nt need all those documents to get visa .

[rhaichard]

congrats ...

[Julie-Tom]

congratulations although you probably did,nt need all those documents to get visa .

You're right, we just realized that looking at all the documents the embassy returned. But, it gave no room for the clearance officer to question the validity of the relationship or the financial capabilities of my husband to support us. this forum helped us in so many ways and thats why I posted the list of docs we submitted just maybe I can also help someone

Thank you all once again

[bigmac]

thank you for your quick response

[sars_notd_virus]

Congratulations!!

..thanks also for sharing the documents you submitted ..it will be helpful for some forum members here.

[sweet_mazza]

WOW! Congratulations!!!

[Terpe]

Well how did I miss this one.
I think I was on holiday.

Sorry Julie-Tom for my belated congratulations......but very well done indeed

Better late than never