Hey, or hoy...

[Ron and Rhea 42]

Just want to introduce myself on the Philippines area of this forum. I posted a question on the K1 board and its 4 pages long..lots and lots of great advise, one was to come here as my fiance is Filipina.

My name is Ron and hoy to you all.

[Impatient Cupcake 10]

hello welcome to vj

[TiklingGuy 211]

Have you sent in your paperwork yet?

[sunandmoon 450]

Welcome to the Philippine Forum. your one stop shopping place for questions about going thru the process in Manila. best thing about shopping here, it's is free...

[Caryh 5,206]

Welcome Ron

You should get your fiancee in here to. I'm assuming she's on the internet. If she has a facebook account, I know a lot of the pretty ladies from the Philippines talk about they process on there and give each other moral support. This is a bit of a stressful process on both sides.

[RK_and_Inday 10]

Ron--

Welcome to Visa Journey! This is RK, the USC petitioner for my Filipina fiancee, Inday. I saw your query and all responses you received in the K1 forum. Glad you were satisfied with the responses and glad you took up the recommendation to visit the Philippines forum. I am relatively new to VJ myself but I can tell you that even though I tend to have an eye for detail, I would have been very, very much lost without the advice, knowledge, and experience of the members of this VJ community. You will surely want to avail yourself here of the golden nuggets of experience specific to a visa journey associated with the Philippines (not to mention some quite entertaining threads!!) Most of all: welcome, glad you have joined VJ, best of luck and good wishes on you and your fiancee's own personal visa journey!!

--RK

[Dan and Judy 614]

Just want to introduce myself on the Philippines area of this forum. I posted a question on the K1 board and its 4 pages long..lots and lots of great advise, one was to come here as my fiance is Filipina.

My name is Ron and hoy to you all.

Hi Ron, my name is Dan and I'm a Filipinaholic

[paul_kay 31]

Hi! Welcome to visajourney! I must say even the people at CFO recommends people to join Visajourney. lol

[Ron and Rhea 42]

hello welcome to vj

Hey, thanks.

[Ron and Rhea 42]

Have you sent in your paperwork yet?

No, I posted on the K1 forum, our story. I went to a lawyer on Wed, told the bill just to get finace' here is 4600.00, then another 4k for paperwork here. I was LOUDLY told DON"T DO IT....but we are getting everything together and will file asap.

[Ron and Rhea 42]

Welcome to the Philippine Forum. your one stop shopping place for questions about going thru the process in Manila. best thing about shopping here, it's is free...

Yes I've found that out. My fiance is getting online here to use this great site and to get this done right. Thanks.

[Ron and Rhea 42]

Welcome Ron

You should get your fiancee in here to. I'm assuming she's on the internet. If she has a facebook account, I know a lot of the pretty ladies from the Philippines talk about they process on there and give each other moral support. This is a bit of a stressful process on both sides.

Hey Caryh, she is very internet savy, however her laptop bit the big one, so she is getting a new one. She has access via her phone, or her moms computer and of course internet cafe's....I will make sure she knows what you shared, thanks.

Ron--

Welcome to Visa Journey! This is RK, the USC petitioner for my Filipina fiancee, Inday. I saw your query and all responses you received in the K1 forum. Glad you were satisfied with the responses and glad you took up the recommendation to visit the Philippines forum. I am relatively new to VJ myself but I can tell you that even though I tend to have an eye for detail, I would have been very, very much lost without the advice, knowledge, and experience of the members of this VJ community. You will surely want to avail yourself here of the golden nuggets of experience specific to a visa journey associated with the Philippines (not to mention some quite entertaining threads!!) Most of all: welcome, glad you have joined VJ, best of luck and good wishes on you and your fiancee's own personal visa journey!!

--RK

Thanks RK..I too have a keen eye, but I am never above getting advise from others who have 'been there, done that'...

Hi Ron, my name is Dan and I'm a Filipinaholic

I must be too, haha.

Hi! Welcome to visajourney! I must say even the people at CFO recommends people to join Visajourney. lol

CFO, another acronym I need to look up, lol

[RK_and_Inday 10]

Jetdoc--

You, of course, will want to now focus on submitting I-129f and all required & supplementarty documents. However, just so you can now have the info in your mental "back pocket," here is pertinent CFO link:

http://www.cfo.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1348:fiancee-spouses-and-other-partners-of-foreign-nationals&catid=140

Most Filipino fiance(e)s do the two part CFO (1. Guidance/couseling session + 2. Registration) near or after the embassy interview and after receiving visa. So you/your fiancee have a number of months before CFO will be of immediate concern. You will see acronym "CFO" periodically in subject headers for threads in Philippines forum and you can look up more about CFO on VJ by using VJ's very useful Advanced Search feature.

-RK

Edited August 21, 2011 by RK_and_Inday

[PaulAbby 4]

Hi Ron and welcome to VJ. You mentioned that you have already seen a lawyer and the cost involved. You may consider not using the lawyer as we have gone through the K1 process without having to pay a lawyer for their services. The information here in the VJ guides, along with the advise from many that have already gone through this process, gave me the information necessary that we had no problems, or additional requests for information from the immigration personnel. I also felt very confident with the process because of the information on VJ.

You still must be very diligent when you are putting together all of the documentation. And the process is very expensive, even without the cost of a lawyer. So if you are good at details and you and your fiance do not have any history that may cause the immigration officers to dig deeper, you may save some money and consider doing this yourself (with the assistance of VJ).

For other VJ members please give your advice one way or the other.

Paul

[~happyndinlove~ 540]

you and your fiance do not have any history that may cause the immigration officers to dig deeper,

Paul

+1 Very well stated but I have 2 questions....

Just what type of "history" are you referring to Paul? Was that an innuendo?

Edit to add: ('cause asawa ko wants to make sure you know I'm just joking. )

Edited August 21, 2011 by ~happyndinlove~