Philippines address issue

[Mark and Ivy 0]

Hi, I posted this in another area, but I thought I would ask it here.

I am concerned about my wife's address. Currently, she lives with her Parents in their house in the Philippines.

It is a house on a street, surrounded by other houses, but for some reason there is no house number

or address registered with their postal system. When I send her something, I have to send it to her Fathers work or her work.

Her address seems to consist of a street or area name, the city, country, code. No number address.

I am worried about this because this is the address she has listed on our marriage contract and all the forms we are filling out

like the G-325a, ect.

Will this be a problem? I think the NSO needs an address they can send her forms too. Is it ok to list another address as where to send forms?

Should she open a post office box?

Thanks

Mark

[Dakine 26]

Hi, I posted this in another area, but I thought I would ask it here.

I am concerned about my wife's address. Currently, she lives with her Parents in their house in the Philippines.

It is a house on a street, surrounded by other houses, but for some reason there is no house number

or address registered with their postal system. When I send her something, I have to send it to her Fathers work or her work.

Her address seems to consist of a street or area name, the city, country, code. No number address.

I am worried about this because this is the address she has listed on our marriage contract and all the forms we are filling out

like the G-325a, ect.

Will this be a problem? I think the NSO needs an address they can send her forms too. Is it ok to list another address as where to send forms?

Should she open a post office box?

Thanks

Mark

My wife had the same trip. She used an address she knew she could get her mail. She used the address of her work.

VERY important to have a good address on the DS forms.

At the same time.

When it came down to the visa delivery the courier called her and they met at a local Jollibee!

Bought the guy lunch.

I don't know why NSO would be mailing her forms. Best to pick everything up in person.

Edited December 11, 2009 by Dakine

[Mark and Ivy 0]

Hey thanks Dakine,

Did it matter what address was on your marriage contract or her G-325a?

I think what I am reading from your reply is maybe she had her original address on the early forms, but then on the DS form she put her work address? If this is correct, does it matter that it will show two addresses?

I am in that stage of freaking over every detail and over thinking and worrying. We have been married since April 20 of this year and due to misspellings on our marriage contract and her birth cirt, her were are in December and I still have not filed. I just don't want to make any mistakes to delay this any more.

[Dakine 26]

Hey thanks Dakine,

Did it matter what address was on your marriage contract or her G-325a?

I think what I am reading from your reply is maybe she had her original address on the early forms, but then on the DS form she put her work address? If this is correct, does it matter that it will show two addresses?

I am in that stage of freaking over every detail and over thinking and worrying. We have been married since April 20 of this year and due to misspellings on our marriage contract and her birth cirt, her were are in December and I still have not filed. I just don't want to make any mistakes to delay this any more.

I'd say the main addresses come into play on the DS forms. What type of visa are you going for. Hopefully a CR-1?

It makes difference.

Edited December 11, 2009 by Dakine

[Mark and Ivy 0]

Yes, we are going for the CR-1. I have some other issues I am waiting for answers on before I can file. I think she may have to resend me new G-325a forms, but we'll see. I posted some questions in the CR-1 forum area but haven't had a reply yet.

I'm still confused on this whole address thing. Does it matter that she has her current living address(which is not registered with the post office) on the G-325a and I have that address for her on the I-130?

Thanks again for any help.

[lbounds 16]

I thought it was odd when I first met my girl she didn't have any street address or house number. Her address is her barangay only with her city name.

Her NSO papers were delivered to her fine as well as letters I send her and Fedex too.

If you have the option put her cell number on the delivery forms just in case the delivery guy has a problem. I've never had any problem though it seems odd to us here in the USA to not have street name or house number but this is common in Phil.

[TripleG 3]

I thought it was odd when I first met my girl she didn't have any street address or house number. Her address is her barangay only with her city name.

Her NSO papers were delivered to her fine as well as letters I send her and Fedex too.

If you have the option put her cell number on the delivery forms just in case the delivery guy has a problem. I've never had any problem though it seems odd to us here in the USA to not have street name or house number but this is common in Phil.

I agree, its fairly common not to have a physical adress in the RP. When I lived in Luzon even the gated community I was in didn't have street numbers. My wife is from Negros Oriental and the house we built is on the side of the mountain with no adress. All the mail for that Baranguay gets delivered to the town Kandalaria, then the residents just pick it up when they go buy something. On all the forms I just put (see addendum) in the adress space and on a seperate sheet of paper put the Town, Baranguay, Negros Oriental, RP and the zip code. It must have been okay because she is here in the states with me.

When her visa was delivered the poor courier hiked up the mountain up a Karabao path to find my wife at her parents house. I guess they are under strict orders to hand deliver or this guy was just dedicated to his job??? Anyways she told me the courier suprised her because she was bathing some pigs and heard a guy yelling her name. She started yelling back and they met on the path, she got her I.D. and he handed her the visa. She didn't tip the guy out of excitement and its not really part of the culture, but I have walked up that path many of times and if anyone deserved a tip that guy did.

Its a wonderful journey,

Wyatt

[lbounds 16]

.........When her visa was delivered the poor courier hiked up the mountain up a Karabao path to find my wife at her parents house. I guess they are under strict orders to hand deliver or this guy was just dedicated to his job??? Anyways she told me the courier suprised her because she was bathing some pigs and heard a guy yelling her name. She started yelling back and they met on the path, she got her I.D. and he handed her the visa. She didn't tip the guy out of excitement and its not really part of the culture, but I have walked up that path many of times and if anyone deserved a tip that guy did.

Its a wonderful journey,

Wyatt

I think that's the funniest visa delivery story I ever heard. Well it's good to know they are really dedicated to get it to her.

I wish I was at that point already myself..

[TripleG 3]

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I think that's the funniest visa delivery story I ever heard. Well it's good to know they are really dedicated to get it to her.

I wish I was at that point already myself..

Just be patient you will get there. I can't say the whole journey went smooth. The first packet she recieved from Manila letting her know she could make the interview appointment went to Dumaguette via DHL. Apparently DHL doesn't hand deliver to the mountain. She lived 4 hrs away by Cerres bus liner from Dumaguette. She lived in Negros Oriental right on the border with Occidental. There was a DHL office 1hr. away in Occidental but they wouldn't allow her to pick it up there. So she had to make the 8hr round trip bus ride not once, but twice to Dumaguette. The first time she called ahead made sure they where open, and left early morning around 5am. When she got there the guy at the DHL office left early to go to a party . Since she was unfamiliar with the place she came all the way back home. Took a rest and went back two days later. Then we had the 12,000 php CENOMAR fiasco/shakedown. Then we payed for all the Vacs. at St. Lukes but where not allowed to get them. These all seemed like big deals at the time, but now that she is here in Texas with me, we just think back and laugh about it.

Good luck your time will come,

Wyatt

[Mark and Ivy 0]

Wyatt, great story.

It is easy to get discouraged and take set backs personal, so it's good to hear other people survived these crazy things they throw at us.

You almost feel like the people you have to deal with have been personally selected to make your life as difficult as possible.

Our marriage contract had to be sent to Manila and back to where we were married twice because of a misspelling on their part and then a registry number they screwed up. It took Manila one month to send it back to our municipality each time. We were married in April and I just got her papers and our corrected MC last week.

[SuperDuper! 230]

Having no house numbers is what helps make the PI so great. You would think they would see how helpful house numbers would be. But who needs house numbers when the new postman or courier just has to keep asking people where Jane Luzon lives: Three blocks past the sari sari, turn a left at the jollibee, then the 2nd coconut tree on the left!

This has driven me nuts for sometime as well. So when you send a BalikBox or FedEx, always put your girl's cell # on the package. Gets it there everytime!

Edited December 14, 2009 by Hopp