And it will be final. The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) has fifteen days to contest the courts decision in the Petition for Recognition of Ana's divorce, the court has declared Ana's divorce in Korea in 1995 is valid under existing Philippine law. If the OSG does not contest it then the NSO has 15 days from that time to delete and expunge the entry of her marriage in the records. You would think I would be jumping for joy, but after seven years I just feel a tremendous feeling of relief. The kids were really happy as they keep asking Ana why mummy and daddy are not married yet. So no counting chickens before they hatch, fifteen more days is not a lot to wait.
All the best my friend............ This is excellent news, at long last,you will be able to be together here as a proper married couple.
Hi Jim, It looks quite promising and it seems you are weary about the time and hassle you have had. Best of luck for a favourable outcome Perhaps soon you will have time for your smile to fully return
Yeah I'm weary Mike knackered to be honest, but thanks Off topic, Ana understands 'knackered' I taught her the word long time ago, great when you hear that word coming out in a Filipino accent It's still going to be a long road as the flat I am in does not meet the accommodation rules for 2 adults and 2 kids so we have to solve that one too, and then there are the costs of the visa's for James and Ana. Next major task is to renew her Korean passport as that expires this year and then we also need to get her Philippine passport which was refused in the past because of her prior marriage, ridiculous that a woman cannot get a passport in her own name in her own country because her divorce was not recognised, but that's the way it works over there, the DFA turned her down for that reason which was primarily the reason I could not marry her under her Filipino nationality. Anyway I have a slight sense of achievement as finally her life is fixed seven years after I met her, from a stateless divorcee, who was an illegal alien in her own birth country, she is now a free woman with Philippine and South Korean citizenship, so I managed something at least.
I sure hope it will be plain sailing for you now - at least to the stage of the issue of a CENOMAR. If you have to go through similar proceedings to an annulment then it may still be necessary to go back to Court after the SG has had time to object and notices have been issued to NSO and registrars. In annulment proceedings another Court hearing is required for issue of the decree of finality. Then its back to registering more doucments with NOS and the registrars. Whatever the procedure is in your case, just remember to keep ALL documents pertaining to your case when your mahal applies for a visa - apparently they need these as well as the CENOMAR and the Court issued decree of finality (at least for annulment cases anyway). I would think that as your case is more unusal, then keeping all the other documents is even more important.
No mate, the OSG is the end of it, in 14 days time if they do not complain (and they have no reason too) then is is over, done, dead parrot, null, void, ended Philippine law only allows one kind of divorce, that is divorce from a foreigner, Ana was married to a Korean and divorced him well over a decade ago, the problem was she had to prove it in court, we have done that now. Our first lawyer was the typical 'take advantage' type, although he only ever asked small money 40,000 peso, at the time 380 quid roughly. He did nothing and wasted about 20 months of our time, then Ana had the good fortune to meet two nice gentlemen, who helped us fix her citizenship and later one of them took on the case for recognition of her Korean divorce, I would recommend both gentlemen highly and would be happy to put anyone with real problems in touch with them, but not publicly I've been through the mill already with the British Embassy I had an arrogant po faced lady laugh at the name we gave our daughter and point blank refuse to respect British law, about 2 months later they gave my daughter UK citizenship as they should have on day one, but they had to make it hard and humiliating just to be superior b**t***s. The DNA tests for me, Ana and Janna cost me 800 quid at the time all required by the UK. Documents? Well since the day I met her I've been keeping documents, I don't bother with photocopies I just photograph everything on a real camera When we come to the next stages we will have everything that the British Embassy requires, not something I am worried about. Hell I have every Skype and Yahoo conversation recorded back to day one seven years back I have every financial transaction as well, pretty much most texts and the very few emails, Ana is too immediate a person and does not believe in email I will DROP a NUKE worth of proof on the embassy and their visa processing arm, whose name I have forgotten (sorry sir I am in the pub right now and not too sober ) Anyway Howerd, most of my problems are still to come and most are financial, but we will overcome these problems one way or another, at least it's possible now. I do wish you all the best and all the luck in the world as your problem is probably harder sir, ( better finsh as my battery is about to die)
oss, I'm so happy for you all. Your optimism, patience and motivation gets my utmost respect. I sincerely wish you all a really great new future with many shining memories. :wave:
Yep, perhaps oss will be following in Kuya's footsteps down the long and winding road to exchanging vows Things are on the up
