Hi to everyone, my name is George, I'm 50 and i live in scotland and hope to gain imformation to help me understand filipino ways. with the hope of bringing my filipino girl here to the uk. I will post a few questions soon many thankx George
Hi George! welcome here my bf is from Scotland (Glasgow) as well I recently got a visa and will be traveling to your beautiful country soon
Hi Yuna, i have just returned from Manila yesterday after two weeks there i have met a girl and we are looking to build a relationship but i have too many questions to handle in one go she has intimated that she wants to come and stay in scotland with me I hope maybe you can all give me good advice. I stay Yuna about 25 miles from Glasgow near to Falkirk
What's it called Cumbernauld sorry mate just joking, welcome here I'm a Scot too! (but exiled in England ) I guess at 25 miles it's probably Alloa or Kincardine?
Regardless of what name it carries it will be still plagued by midgies... Like the rest of scotland.... Oh.. sorry... Welcome aboard...
welcome George! hope you'll have fun staying here.. we'll be glad to help.. I'll try to help when I can.. been busy with the li'l one.. she's playing with her Dad at the mo, so was able to sneak in
Well thank you all for your welcome to the site. i actually stay in Bo'ness 5 miles from the BP refinery. I have Known Jenny(33yo) my girl for over 9 months and went to Manila for 2 weeks recently to see her. Typhoon Saola did his best to ruin my stay. when i had left on tuesday he had dropped a whole months of rain in a day and a half, which about 100 people killed so far. I can see that bringing my Girl to the uk will not be easy, complicated by the piont that she is trapped by a silly marriage that didn't work out and has been separated for 2 1/2 years now. so i guess the first piont is where do i start ? annul the certificate, then apply for visitors visa or can i bring her her on a visitors visa and annul the marriage here, with applying for settlement in a few years time? wow this is so complicated any pionters or comments would be welcomed guy's and girls
First and most important question George, is the existing marriage to a foreigner or to a local Filipino? It is much harder for a lassie to get out of a Filipino - Filipino marriage than it is to escape a foreigner. A divorce sought by a foreign spouse will be recognised under Philippine law, however in the majority of cases the divorce must have been petitioned by the foreigner, if the Filipino petitioned for divorce it will not be recognised under the standard administrative procedure this stuff is covered in the Family Code of the Philippines The one exception to this is where the country that grants the divorce only has consensual divorce South Korea being an example of this. If the spouse is Filipino and has no other nationality then it is very hard and very expensive to get an annulment, minimum I've heard of is a couple of years, maximum is as long as it takes until your money runs out. Costs are rarely less than 200,000 peso although there has been some movement on simplifying things over the last couple of years. You can find a lot of good information here -Jlp-law
Never been to Bo'ness never even driven through it as far as I can remember Just did a virtual tour in Google and it looks nice up the back on the hill and very handy for Edinburgh. I very much miss Scotland, only just managed to get back up to see my sister in Carnoustie in June, my first time home in over three years.
thankx oss i didn't realise it was so complicated, unfortunately it is to a filipino, i am aware of the silly costs thankx any way. i will be intouch further. it certainly appears that they don't want thier people to better themselves. but it doesn't paint a rosey picture does it, more a death knell.
There's another important point that you need to be aware of George in relation to all this and that is the Philippine law on adultery. If the husband is able to show that his wife has committed adultery then she can be imprisoned for 7 years the same applies to you if you were in the Philippines and simply accused by the husband, you could spend a vast amount of time in jail even if you had not had relations with his wife. It is draconian to put it mildly, it is also important to note that in practice you are generally considered guilty simply because you have been accused, this is not official policy however it is pretty much what goes on in the mind of the public and in practice the police and courts. The accusation of adultery is likely to be for the purposes of extortion as the foreigner is often seen as a cash cow. So the point is just be careful, I have been very lucky my partner was married to a foreigner who she divorced abroad, so this sort of thing did not apply, however it has taken us seven years just to get to the point where her divorce is finally recognised by the Philippine authorities, about three years of that time was the divorce recognition the rest was dealing with the other consequence of her having a failed foreign marriage (loss of citizenship etc.)
