CFO Seminar in Cebu

[Dakine 26]

Hi there- my fianceé is going to fly back with me to the US on a K1; the office in Cebu said she needed my affidavit of no marriage/cert of singleness. (I am not in Cebu currently, I was going to visit for a week to spend time with her family and fly back with her).

From all my reading, this is only supposed to be required if you are getting married in Phils. I found the only place I could get the affidavit is the US embassy in Manila- I already made that trip with her for her K1 interview, and have no plans to go back there.

Are they really requiring this for marriages taking place outside of the country?

(It almost seems the Manila and Cebu office have different requirements; maybe I should have her fly up there to do it.)

There is some jerk at CFO in Cebu that asks for cert of singleness from petitioners. Happened to a friend of mine. She went back the next day and someone else interviewed her and let her do the seminar.

Have your mate try again.

Edited December 5, 2009 by Dakine

[krc 0]

There is some jerk at CFO in Cebu that asks for cert of singleness from petitioners. Happened to a friend of mine. She went back the next day and someone else interviewed her and let her do the seminar.

Have your mate try again.

Thanks for the advice, I will have her do that.

[The_Sage1 2]

Do they keep the CERNOMAR, or do they give it back to you?

[srogue 0]

Yeh it just depends on the person you're dealing with. The ogre in the city office in Tacloban required me to get a CENOMAR..lol Loved the look on their faces at the NSO office though when I stepped up and asked for one Like I'd ordered a gin and tonic. All that should be required is your "permit to marry" from the US embassy there and not a CENOMAR. CENOMAR is for PH citizens.

This seems to be the way of the Philippines. Local officials/individuals making up the requirements as they go along. When I went to the Phils. to get married back in February, I did all my research to find out what the Phil. government needed for me to get married to my wife there. When I got there I had my needed legal capacity, but the woman with the scowl on her face at the municipal hall in my wife's village decided I needed to get a CENOMAR. As a US Citizen, I thought it was funny.. the NSO would have no records of me having been married in the past (i had never been married) even if I had been married 1000 times before. But the woman refused to let me marry my wife unless I got a CENOMAR for my self, so I did... gota love the Phils.

[krc 0]

But the woman refused to let me marry my wife unless I got a CENOMAR for my self, so I did... gota love the Phils.

Did you just craft a document for them to look at or something?

[philmae83 0]

Yeh it just depends on the person you're dealing with. The ogre in the city office in Tacloban required me to get a CENOMAR..lol Loved the look on their faces at the NSO office though when I stepped up and asked for one Like I'd ordered a gin and tonic. All that should be required is your "permit to marry" from the US embassy there and not a CENOMAR. CENOMAR is for PH citizens.

This seems to be the way of the Philippines. Local officials/individuals making up the requirements as they go along. When I went to the Phils. to get married back in February, I did all my research to find out what the Phil. government needed for me to get married to my wife there. When I got there I had my needed legal capacity, but the woman with the scowl on her face at the municipal hall in my wife's village decided I needed to get a CENOMAR. As a US Citizen, I thought it was funny.. the NSO would have no records of me having been married in the past (i had never been married) even if I had been married 1000 times before. But the woman refused to let me marry my wife unless I got a CENOMAR for my self, so I did... gota love the Phils.

they ask you cenomar even you are a foreigner because they want to make sure that you haven't been married in the Philippines before

[solidwhite1 0]

i know this is old but... Yeah i visited a website that said that the us used to have that 'affidavit' or 'cert of singlesness' available but no longer used it, but why on earth would the Phil CFO be up to date on the main thing they are responsible for??? mine called because she lives on another island and they told her on phone she needed mine, im sending copy of '09 tax return and taking that suggestion about visiting the local marriage license office for maybe a notarized letter or somthing...