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[damulag 26]

Just a little FYI about the consulate in Chicago,

There is a Wallgreens/CVS,I do not remember which one, next to the consulate the has the ability to take the passport picture with the blue background, you will need 4 pictures if you are also reporting your marriage plus 2 of your husband.

One block away there is an office supply store with photo copiers to make copies after you affix your pictures, they also have a glue stick available for you to stick the pictures on the applications.

We just answered "ignorace of the requirement" on the delayed report of marriage for the question asking why we did not report it within 1 year, which you will need to fill out if your did not report your marriage within 1 year.

Make sure you bring a pre-paid express mail envelope with you, addressed to yourself, so they can mail the passport and report of marriage to you after they receive it back from the Philippines.

My wife received hers back about six weeks later.

Below is a link to the consulate forms, the one "report of marriage" also has the afidavit of delayed marriage attached to it. They will send you a stamped copy of the report of marriage with your passport and also send back your old passport.

Forms

[Lhiz21 1]

The requirement is on the ROM form. The ROM application that we have here at California Embassy (Im in Seattle but California is our nearest embassy) doesn't require us to submit any pictures and fill-up a form as to why we didn't report our marriage within a year. I guess it depends on what state you file it from.

They only asked us to submit the following:

Marriage certificate

Photo ID(State ID, driver license etc.)

Birth certificate

$25 processing fee

Edited September 20, 2010 by Lhiz21