CFO questions

[Kevo 69]

On the website it says a "immigrant data summary" and "guidance and counseling form" are needed. I have no idea what the first is and can't find the second anywhere on their website.

Anyone else know anything about these?

[Tahoma 2,292]

Kevo...Don't worry about the immigrant data summary. You're a K-1'er. It doesn't apply to you. It's for CR-1'ers.

As for the guidance and counseling form, your fiancée needs to complete this form and bring it with her.

[Hank_ 9,174]

CFO has been known to ask for many things.

CFO:

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

Update: Please check the schedule of the counseling session before proceeding to CFO because it is country-specific and the slots are limited only to 15 per session (two sessions per day) for Manila and 12 per session (only one session a day) for Cebu. It is on a first-come-first-serve basis.

CFO Online Registration Form: http://www.cfo.gov.p...trationform.pdf Complete this and print a couple copies to bring to the CFO seminar, it will save you time.

http://www.philembas...w_gcp_flyer.pdf

http://www.cfo.gov.p...onals&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 (copies of) - bio page of passport, birth certificate, divorce decree (if been married before) are the most common requests. 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. (Some are posted on VJ that they were not asked for this, yet others have been asked, so be prepared)

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.

Edited January 27, 2013 by Hank_

[spn1025 38]

On the website it says a "immigrant data summary" and "guidance and counseling form" are needed. I have no idea what the first is and can't find the second anywhere on their website.

Anyone else know anything about these?

There are 2 parts to the CFO, they can be done separately or together in 1 day. The first part is the meeting/interview where the Filipina will get the "Guidance and Counseling certificate". The 2nd part is getting the sticker for her passport, which can only be done after getting her visa. You can do the class part ahead of time, like my wife did, then just return for the passport sticker after she gets her K1 visa. But, if Manila or Cebu is far from where she lives, she could just get it all done in 1 day after she gets her visa.

So I've been told on here, the "immigrant data summary" will come with an immigrant visa (IR1/CR1).