Getting US Divorce Recognized in Philippines

[Kby175 115]

My concern would be the CFO how are they going to handle these online weddings?  The CFO has to sign off on her leaving the Philippines, it might be safer to get married outside of the Philippines once things start to open up. Has anyone with one of these Utah wedding the CFO yet?  

[David & Diana R 1,005]

2 hours ago, Kby175 said:

My concern would be the CFO how are they going to handle these online weddings?  The CFO has to sign off on her leaving the Philippines, it might be safer to get married outside of the Philippines once things start to open up. Has anyone with one of these Utah wedding the CFO yet?  

Yes you never know what the Philippines is gong to do. Things change minute by minute there.  No rhyme or reason.  So far it appears that USCIS will accept the marriage as valid but now we are talking the CFO.  I saw one account of an on-line Utah marriage being used for the American to get into the Philippines to be with his wife.  Of course things are constantly in flux in the Pilippines so who knows right/  I am thinking about signing the contract with a PI law firm to have my American divorce recognized in the Philippines.  3000 dollars to get the Philippines to accept our US divorce.  More ways for attorneys to make money.  I understnad there are only two countries in the WORLD that don't allow divorce The Philippines and Vatican city.  Jesus Christ!

[top_secret 2,498]

9 hours ago, Kby175 said:

My concern would be the CFO how are they going to handle these online weddings?  The CFO has to sign off on her leaving the Philippines, it might be safer to get married outside of the Philippines once things start to open up. Has anyone with one of these Utah wedding the CFO yet?  

The Philippine Consulate in San Francisco has been accepting and processing Reports of Marriage on the Utah marriages, which will get registered in PSA and therefore makes them indisputably fully legalized in the Philippines.  So far they aren't getting handled any differently by the Philippines than any other overseas marriage.  Of course that doesn't do anything for the OP's situation since they still couldn't file a ROM without the foreign divorce being recognized.  But if somebody did file a ROM and asks when it would be available in PSA, they will be told to wait 6 months.  So if CFO brought the subject of ROM up and someone didn't have a ROM to show... try repeating back "PSA says it will take 6 months to be available"

[David & Diana R 1,005]

6 minutes ago, top_secret said:

The Philippine Consulate in San Francisco has been accepting and processing Reports of Marriage on the Utah marriages, which will get registered in PSA and therefore makes them indisputably fully legalized in the Philippines.  So far they aren't getting handled any differently by the Philippines than any other overseas marriage.  Of course that doesn't do anything for the OP's situation since they still couldn't file a ROM without the foreign divorce being recognized.  But if somebody did file a ROM and asks when it would be available in PSA, they will be told to wait 6 months.  So if CFO brought the subject of ROM up and someone didn't have a ROM to show... try repeating back "PSA says it will take 6 months to be available"

Thank you very much.