Can my girlfriend travel outside the Philippines for us to meet somewhere and spend time together?

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1 minute ago, NoMansLand2020 said:

No, it was GCP.  

Well, tbe the CFO counselor steered you wrong

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1 hour ago, boris64 said:

K-1s can do the seminar in advance. My wife did hers in Sept. of 2018 in Cebu and did not get her visa until March 2019. Then she went to the CFO office in Manila, showed her certificate of completion and got her stamp. Of course this was before Covid but it appears it is working the same per C&R's experience.

You can, but you have to travel to one of the CFO offices. We tried signing up for the GCP online seminar. They said we had to have Visa in Hand before they would let her take the seminar. 

Edited October 22, 2020 by NoMansLand2020

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1 hour ago, payxibka said:

Well, tbe the CFO counselor steered you wrong

So what do we need to do? 

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3 hours ago, payxibka said:

Were you signing up for the wrong seminar?  Sounds like you were trying to register for PDOS versus GCP which is the seminar a k1 needs to take

Yeah, we went for GCP since she does not currently have her immigrant visa and was not leaving the country permanently yet and was only leaving temporarily  to meet her Foreign Partner/Fiancé which it actually has that verbiage in the BI Exiting Requirements as well as below the registration button on the CFO website, we hoped it would make exiting for the first time a little smoother and to fulfill any requirements if there was one adhered to, but as we found out and like with many things there, even though this is clearly stated as required in the BI Exiting Requirements (in letter) it not actually required lol in practice 

 

2.3 However, the following shall automatically be subjected to secondary inspection:

 

       d) Partners and spouses of foreign nationals intending to depart to meet and/or marry
            his/her fiancé without the CFO Guidance and Counseling Certificate;

 

I understand that PDOS is for Filipino's with immigrant intent 

 

 

Edited October 22, 2020 by Cody&Razely

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16 minutes ago, Cody&Razely said:

 

I understand that PDOS is for Filipino's with immigrant intent 

Not quite, as a k1 has immigrant intent. 

 

GCP is for fiancée or spouse emigrants.   

 

PDOS is for everyone else emigrating (k2s, parents, siblings, etc)

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On 10/22/2020 at 12:31 PM, Cody&Razely said:

Yeah, we went for GCP since she does not currently have her immigrant visa and was not leaving the country permanently yet and was only leaving temporarily  to meet her Foreign Partner/Fiancé which it actually has that verbiage in the BI Exiting Requirements as well as below the registration button on the CFO website, we hoped it would make exiting for the first time a little smoother and to fulfill any requirements

 

 

I'm not following this fully.  Did you obtain a CFO certificate prior to taking a tourist trip abroad?  Anyone done this successfully?

 

I am getting nervous about an upcoming trip to Japan, because the airport rules state that a Filipino citizen traveling abroad to meet their foreign spouse or fiance who does not have a CFO certificate is automatically subject to a more intense secondary screening.  Obviously the Philippines exit interview is worrying, due to the arbitrary and capricious offloading (30,000 citizens were offloaded recently in a year, with reportedly 90%+ of these deemed to have not been a risk after the fact) so anything to lessen this risk would be MOST helpful.

 

From what I've read here, the CFO certificate does not expire, so no reason not to get it ahead of time if you can...

If there is a requirement to show a visa stamp to proceed, I'm planning to send the Japanese visa stamp to register for CFO.

 

Reports here state the rules at the airport may not be followed all that closely, and she is departing from Cebu Mactan, which is far better than Manila in terms of immigration, but I'd rather be safe than sorry...

It's funny the CFO rules and PI rules clearly contradict each other 😆 Nice Catch-22 there, Philippines!

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2 hours ago, spicynujac said:

I'm not following this fully.  Did you obtain a CFO certificate prior to taking a tourist trip abroad?  Anyone done this successfully?

 

I am getting nervous about an upcoming trip to Japan, because the airport rules state that a Filipino citizen traveling abroad to meet their foreign spouse or fiance who does not have a CFO certificate is automatically subject to a more intense secondary screening.  Obviously the Philippines exit interview is worrying, due to the arbitrary and capricious offloading (30,000 citizens were offloaded recently in a year, with reportedly 90%+ of these deemed to have not been a risk after the fact) so anything to lessen this risk would be MOST helpful.

 

From what I've read here, the CFO certificate does not expire, so no reason not to get it ahead of time if you can...

If there is a requirement to show a visa stamp to proceed, I'm planning to send the Japanese visa stamp to register for CFO.

 

Reports here state the rules at the airport may not be followed all that closely, and she is departing from Cebu Mactan, which is far better than Manila in terms of immigration, but I'd rather be safe than sorry...

It's funny the CFO rules and PI rules clearly contradict each other 😆 Nice Catch-22 there, Philippines!

 

 

You have resurrected a 3 year old thread from during the rona-lockdown era.  Virtually none of what was written about CFO for tourists during that period applies today.  CFO is no longer applicable for Filipinos traveling on tourists visas.  They should DEFINITELY be well prepared for a secondary interview by BI if it is a first international trip. 

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