CFO Cebu Experience 2018

[Davemira 56]

My CFO experience went well today. I was so happy. My flight is on monday Aug 13. I was so afraid they might ask for documents that i dont have.

I was in the office very early 5:30 am.  its not really necessary but i was trying to avoid traffic. Around 8am we went to 4th floor for registration. I gave the online appointment form to the guard and waited for my name to be called. I was then called and went to the lady who asked if i got a visa already and i said yes. I presented my passport and they took a picture of me then gave me a form to fill up. After filling up the form i went back to the cashier area and the lady asked for my 2 valid ids and ID of my petitioner (passport photocopy, driver's license) i presented Driver's license since his passport expired last May. They still asked for the passport though and also his birth certificate. Then after checking the docs she told me to come back around 1pm or before 2 for the seminar.. Around 1pm i went back and talk with the other k1 visa holders there. I paid the 400 pesos at the cashier and waited for the seminar to start. The facilitator Miss Gia Mae Samonte is very nice.She is so cool you will feel comfortable around her..I started to pray wishing she will be the one who will do the one on one interview. I was so lucky i guess hehe..She really was the one who handled the interview. When she started the interview she told me the more you share mam the better. I talked a lot about my relationship with my fiance while she randomly asked me questions. I feel at ease around her so the interview was easy for me. She asked for my fiances passport copy and passport stamp of his visits.She also asked for our pictures together. I was just like talking to a friend and we were speaking in our dialect so its easy. Then she told me i will now endorse you to our head..Now this time i begin to feel nervous because the head is so strict. When we went out in the room the second room where the head of cfo interviewed my friend was still close so she went to another lady in the cashier and talked to her about my case and release my certificate and sticker .Yahooooo...i waited for my friend for like 20mins..wow ..when she was done she said the head of cfo asked for a divorce decree from court that shows the reason for the divorce of her fiance.She was so sad her fiance was divorced twice and she brought the divorce decree but she was asked for another document. She met her fiance once for 7 days and she was questioned about it. The intentions of fiance and evrything she almost cried. I feel sorry for her.  Her flight is also monday...I hope someone can help her.She called her fiance and her fiancee cried because the decree he sent to her is the decree released by court..they dont know now what the cfo counselor is looking for..any one had an idea on this?

 

Anyway im happy im going to see my fiancee soon...My flight is on Monday..Good luck everyone

[Hank_ 9,174]

Glad it all went well.    

 

 

[JL2017 39]

4 hours ago, Davemira said:

My CFO experience went well today. I was so happy. My flight is on monday Aug 13. I was so afraid they might ask for documents that i dont have.

I was in the office very early 5:30 am.  its not really necessary but i was trying to avoid traffic. Around 8am we went to 4th floor for registration. I gave the online appointment form to the guard and waited for my name to be called. I was then called and went to the lady who asked if i got a visa already and i said yes. I presented my passport and they took a picture of me then gave me a form to fill up. After filling up the form i went back to the cashier area and the lady asked for my 2 valid ids and ID of my petitioner (passport photocopy, driver's license) i presented Driver's license since his passport expired last May. They still asked for the passport though and also his birth certificate. Then after checking the docs she told me to come back around 1pm or before 2 for the seminar.. Around 1pm i went back and talk with the other k1 visa holders there. I paid the 400 pesos at the cashier and waited for the seminar to start. The facilitator Miss Gia Mae Samonte is very nice.She is so cool you will feel comfortable around her..I started to pray wishing she will be the one who will do the one on one interview. I was so lucky i guess hehe..She really was the one who handled the interview. When she started the interview she told me the more you share mam the better. I talked a lot about my relationship with my fiance while she randomly asked me questions. I feel at ease around her so the interview was easy for me. She asked for my fiances passport copy and passport stamp of his visits.She also asked for our pictures together. I was just like talking to a friend and we were speaking in our dialect so its easy. Then she told me i will now endorse you to our head..Now this time i begin to feel nervous because the head is so strict. When we went out in the room the second room where the head of cfo interviewed my friend was still close so she went to another lady in the cashier and talked to her about my case and release my certificate and sticker .Yahooooo...i waited for my friend for like 20mins..wow ..when she was done she said the head of cfo asked for a divorce decree from court that shows the reason for the divorce of her fiance.She was so sad her fiance was divorced twice and she brought the divorce decree but she was asked for another document. She met her fiance once for 7 days and she was questioned about it. The intentions of fiance and evrything she almost cried. I feel sorry for her.  Her flight is also monday...I hope someone can help her.She called her fiance and her fiancee cried because the decree he sent to her is the decree released by court..they dont know now what the cfo counselor is looking for..any one had an idea on this?

 

Anyway im happy im going to see my fiancee soon...My flight is on Monday..Good luck everyone

omg I thought everything is done after the medical/interview and when you receive you visa/passport. So the CFO seminar is another thing to worry and prepare lol Isn't it supposed to be just a seminar? Thank you for sharing - very helpful.

[Davemira 56]

1 hour ago, Hank_ said:

Glad it all went well.    

 

 

Thanks hank..Thank you for all your help. 

[Davemira 56]

Just now, JL2017 said:

omg I thought everything is done after the medical/interview and when you receive you visa/passport. So the CFO seminar is another thing to worry and prepare lol Isn't it supposed to be just a seminar? Thank you for sharing - very helpful.

Yes. CFO is another step you need to prepare. I thought the same too before. I thought its just a seminar but NO. Yes there is a seminar then right after the seminar is one on one interview. You still need to prove to the counselor that your relationship is genuine. Withball the stress ive been through..lol..finally now i can sleep well..hehe 

[JL2017 39]

1 minute ago, Davemira said:

Yes. CFO is another step you need to prepare. I thought the same too before. I thought its just a seminar but NO. Yes there is a seminar then right after the seminar is one on one interview. You still need to prove to the counselor that your relationship is genuine. Withball the stress ive been through..lol..finally now i can sleep well..hehe 

Congratulations for reaching this far without getting crazy lol

Yeah I can hardly sleep thinking and overthinking lol I wouldn't know about this seminar if you didn't post this. I thought its just really a classroom seminar type of thing, I would have to start researching more about this too.

You definitely deserve to have a good sleep! 

[Hank_ 9,174]

29 minutes ago, JL2017 said:

omg I thought everything is done after the medical/interview and when you receive you visa/passport. So the CFO seminar is another thing to worry and prepare lol Isn't it supposed to be just a seminar? Thank you for sharing - very helpful.

here is some info

 

http://www.visaconnection-philippines.com/cfo-orientation-seminar.html

[Chris Duffy 1,257]

CFO

 

Just another con job pulled by the Republic of Philippines

[JL2017 39]

21 hours ago, Hank_ said:

here is some info

 

http://www.visaconnection-philippines.com/cfo-orientation-seminar.html

Thank you!