help with regards to cenomar

[Pangga&Shine 7]

Hi, i'm newbie here. I'm preparing now all the documents needed to give to my fiance for our K1 application. since this is fiancee visa application i would assume that i am required to submit Certificate of No Marriage and NSO Authenticated Birth Certificate. I do have these documents already, however the CENOMAR was dated Dec. 14, 2010. Do I have to submit the latest CENOMAR and NSO Authenticated Birth Certificate or not? In the guidelines it does not state i am required to submit birth certificate and Cenomar. But I have a friend before who applied the same and as far as i can remember she gathered above documents. Any advise will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Hank_ 9,174]

Hi, i'm newbie here. I'm preparing now all the documents needed to give to my fiance for our K1 application. since this is fiancee visa application i would assume that i am required to submit Certificate of No Marriage and NSO Authenticated Birth Certificate. I do have these documents already, however the CENOMAR was dated Dec. 14, 2010. Do I have to submit the latest CENOMAR and NSO Authenticated Birth Certificate or not? In the guidelines it does not state i am required to submit birth certificate and Cenomar. But I have a friend before who applied the same and as far as i can remember she gathered above documents. Any advise will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

You timeline is not completed so I can only guess that your I-129F petition has been approved and you have started the K-1 application at the embassy. Here are a few links to assist you.

Embassy:

http://photos.state.gov/libraries/manila/19452/public/Revised%20K1%20Instruction%20Packet%20_3__rtf2_003.pdf

http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ph/

St. Luke's:

http://www.slec.ph/us-visa-applicants.shtml#required-docs

http://www.slec.ph/us/registration/

CFO:

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

[Pangga&Shine 7]

Thanks Hank_Amy for the reply. Sorry for not so precise. It's still been 6 days my fiance got home from his visit here. He's still at work now. I got my cenomar as requirement for work abroad. Thought I could use it for our application but found out that cenomar has validity. Thanks for the links

[marklovetina 52]

Hi, i'm newbie here. I'm preparing now all the documents needed to give to my fiance for our K1 application. since this is fiancee visa application i would assume that i am required to submit Certificate of No Marriage and NSO Authenticated Birth Certificate. I do have these documents already, however the CENOMAR was dated Dec. 14, 2010. Do I have to submit the latest CENOMAR and NSO Authenticated Birth Certificate or not? In the guidelines it does not state i am required to submit birth certificate and Cenomar. But I have a friend before who applied the same and as far as i can remember she gathered above documents. Any advise will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

no need for a CENOMAR...

u need that when u go to ur interview..

[Hank_ 9,174]

Thanks Hank_Amy for the reply. Sorry for not so precise. It's still been 6 days my fiance got home from his visit here. He's still at work now. I got my cenomar as requirement for work abroad. Thought I could use it for our application but found out that cenomar has validity. Thanks for the links

Yes you will need to request all necessary documents fresh. Certified birth certicate being the except I would think.

[Grant PDX 183]

My understanding is that Cenomar has 90 day validity, NBI clearance is one year, and Birth Certificate doesn't expire (until you do).

[Hank_ 9,174]

I will ask my Fiancee when she wakes but I thought someone posted recently the CENOMAR has a 6 month valid date. Its Sunday there so sleeping late may be on the adgenda today.

[Grant PDX 183]

Yep, Hank, you are correct, just did a little checking. Also found an old post that someone had an 8 month old Cenomar that was accepted. I believe I also saw a post that someone had a 4 or 5 month old one and they were told to get a new one, which is why I thought it was 90 days. In my first time through, 6 years ago, my (now-ex) fiance had a very new Cenomar, less than a month old. But because she also had a son and they wanted "conclusive proof of no previous marriage" the CO said they needed to do even more research so they asked the NSO to do a more thorough review after the interview, which delayed the actual receipt of the visa by about 3 weeks.

I am recommending to my fiance that she get new documents after paying the visa fee (except for the BC since she recently got several copies). Usually the Philippines is pretty straightforward and stuff flies through, but I hate to give them any excuse to slow or stop my processing.

[Hank_ 9,174]

My Fiancee started gathering docs as we approached our 4th month as she had heard that NBI was slow, as it was she had the report in a little over two weeks. So all her documents will be within a month of her interview date. I had her get 6 copies of her BC so that IF she needs one once here we have extras.

[actob99 156]

My Fiancee started gathering docs as we approached our 4th month as she had heard that NBI was slow, as it was she had the report in a little over two weeks. So all her documents will be within a month of her interview date. I had her get 6 copies of her BC so that IF she needs one once here we have extras.

Good idea, I was thinking exactly the same..

[Grant PDX 183]

That's actually a good recommendation for anyone coming here. Some local documents in other countries don't mean anything here. Once the visa is granted there will never be another use for the Cenomar or NBI clearance. However, with my experience with my first fiance visa, you will always find uses for more birth certificates. My ex-wife came to the US with I think 3 official copies. On one of her return trips home she picked up 3 more. It seems like they get requested for so many different things.

6 sounds like a good number to me.

[southcalhog 43]

I will ask my Fiancee when she wakes but I thought someone posted recently the CENOMAR has a 6 month valid date. Its Sunday there so sleeping late may be on the adgenda today.

I thought the CENOMAR had a 6 Month Validity date also???

[Hank_ 9,174]

I forgot to ask my Fiancee to look when she finally woke, got distracted....

[southcalhog 43]

I had Grace get a new one recently, She told me the CENOMAR has a 6 month Validity?.The date at the top of it says February 20th, 2012. Thats when she got it. Anyway we wont need a new one again..

[Hank_ 9,174]

I had Grace get a new one recently, She told me the CENOMAR has a 6 month Validity?.The date at the top of it says February 20th, 2012. Thats when she got it. Anyway we wont need a new one again.. :thumbs: