CFO

[madison925 2]

How will I be able to get a parent's advise affidavit? Do they need to show up at the local registry office? or we can have it notarized to any law firm? Who experienced having their CFO seminar in Cebu? Please help? Is guardian okay?

I am 23 yrs old by the way.

[C-ma'am 684]

--Moved post from K1 to Philippines as the question is Consulate Specific--

[Vic20r 14]

How will I be able to get a parent's advise affidavit? Do they need to show up at the local registry office? or we can have it notarized to any law firm? Who experienced having their CFO seminar in Cebu? Please help? Is guardian okay?

I am 23 yrs old by the way.

I guess it depends...During my CFO seminar in Cebu, two ladies who were 18 yrs old. The other lady is from Mindanao with her mom but was denied by the sister during the interview. The nun said she needs to go to DSWD with her mom to get something like a legal thing..The other girl is married couple of months ago and has a 2 months old son, but passed the inteview without any hassle.

[TnJ 131]

How will I be able to get a parent's advise affidavit? Do they need to show up at the local registry office? or we can have it notarized to any law firm? Who experienced having their CFO seminar in Cebu? Please help? Is guardian okay?

I am 23 yrs old by the way.

Parental Advice Form: http://www.quezoncity.gov.ph/images/stories/downloadables/forms/parentadvice.pdf

If a legal guardian is all you have, then yes, a legal guardian can sign it. Be sure to have a court decree if that is the case. Check out Family Code of the Philippines. You might need the affidavit notarized, but I am not sure with CFO. I would check with the LCR. This is normally intended for Filipinos contracting marriage within the Philippines. CFO uses it in its own unique way.

[madison925 2]

I will need to get a parent's advise cause im 23. Can I have print a format, let my parents sign it and have it notarized to any law firm? How did you do yours? Thank you so much

[madison925 2]

How did you get yours? Did you just make and have your parents sign it and have it notarized?

[TnJ 131]

How did you get yours? Did you just make and have your parents sign it and have it notarized?

The form is found in the link I provided. We didn't use it. We won't need to because Jessa is not between 21-24, but we haven't gotten to the CFO stage yet either. This is the form that others here have used.

[madison925 2]

Thank you so much!

[mrspark 0]

Hello everyone! I am new here and and I really need your help about the CFO Certificate. Please answer the following questions:

1.When can I get my CFO Certificate? Is it right after the seminar or I will wait for few more days to receive it?

2.What is the next step after the CFO seminar?

Please help me this is my biggest problem for now I tried to email the CFO but they didn’t reply yet. O my! Some of my documents are going to expire! Thank you!

[let-it-be 36]

Hello everyone! I am new here and and I really need your help about the CFO Certificate. Please answer the following questions:

1.When can I get my CFO Certificate? Is it right after the seminar or I will wait for few more days to receive it?

2.What is the next step after the CFO seminar?

Please help me this is my biggest problem for now I tried to email the CFO but they didn't reply yet. O my! Some of my documents are going to expire! Thank you!

1. CFO will give you the certificate right after the seminar.

2. You can proceed with the registration if you already have your visa. They will then affix the sticker on your passport. If you don't have your visa yet, you can just go back to CFO for the registration & sticker once you have your visa.

Below is the CFO link:

http://www.cfo.gov.p...1348&Itemid=918

Edited September 3, 2012 by let-it-be

[Hank_ 9,174]

If you have your passport back from the embassy before you go to CFO they will affix the CFO sticker right after the seminar.

If you have not had your interview at the embassy yet you can still take your CFO seminar, then come back later for the sticker.

CFO:

ALL exiting required to attend. There have been changes regarding CFO so for sure read through their website.

http://www.philembassy.no/sites/default/files/downloads/new_gcp_flyer.pdf

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

Required documents & "OTHER DOCUMENTS" they ask for at CFO: copies of; CENOMAR, certified birth certificate, bio page of passport, visa page from passport, pictures together, from USC - bio page of passport, birth certificate, divorce decree (if been married before) are the most common. The "other documents" clause can be ANYTHING with those nit-wits at CFO.

** From the Family Code of the Philippines: it's 21-25 years old for advice and 18-21 years old for consent.

Art. 14. In case either or both of the contracting parties, not having been emancipated by a previous marriage, are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, they shall, in addition to the requirements of the preceding articles, exhibit to the local civil registrar, the consent to their marriage of their father, mother, surviving parent or guardian, or persons having legal charge of them, in the order mentioned. Such consent shall be manifested in writing by the interested party, who personally appears before the proper local civil registrar, or in the form of an affidavit made in the presence of two witnesses and attested before any official authorized by law to administer oaths. The personal manifestation shall be recorded in both applications for marriage license, and the affidavit, if one is executed instead, shall be attached to said applications. (61a)

Art. 15. Any contracting party between the age of twenty-one and twenty-five shall be obliged to ask their parents or guardian for advice upon the intended marriage. If they do not obtain such advice, or if it be unfavorable, the marriage license shall not be issued till after three months following the completion of the publication of the application therefor.A sworn statement by the contracting parties to the effect that such advice has been sought,together with the written advice given, if any, shall be attached to the application for marriage license. Should the parents or guardian refuse to give any advice, this fact shall be stated in the sworn statement.