Dr B J Dent

[Barrie J Dent]

Good day to all you established expats.  I have a problem,  at the end of the summer I Will be moving to the Philippines, to marry a Philippine citizen, My dilemma is for myself secure a COC  I must get a FIN Card ID, can anybody help me  , to where I can get this confounded ID Card    (Number) in the Uk I think its called a n NRIC  national registration Identification  Card

Barrie J Dent

 

 

[Jollygoodfellow]

10 minutes ago, Barrie J Dent said:

Good day to all you established expats.  I have a problem,  at the end of the summer I Will be moving to the Philippines, to marry a Philippine citizen, My dilemma is for myself secure a COC  I must get a FIN Card ID, can anybody help me  , to where I can get this confounded ID Card    (Number) in the Uk I think its called a n NRIC  national registration Identification  Card

Barrie J Dent

 

 

Where have you obtained information about what you are required to have to get married here? 

[Jollygoodfellow]

2 minutes ago, Barrie J Dent said:

Hi maybe you can help me.   I am looking for the contact  to  get a  FIN  ID ,  Im going crazy trying to solve this problem 

 

Barrie  J Dent

 

Ps I have just joined this Forum

I have no idea of what a FIN is. What you need is a certificate of no marriage or equivalent in the UK to say you are free to marry. I will move this to your marriage question topic.

[Barrie J Dent]

To mr good fellow  so you are saying I need only my divorce  documents, please confirm this is very important as I already have those divorce documents, any further information will be greatly appreciated.

I look forward hearing  from you

 

Barrie J Dent

[Jollygoodfellow]

2 minutes ago, Barrie J Dent said:

To mr good fellow  so you are saying I need only my divorce  documents, please confirm this is very important as I already have those divorce documents, any further information will be greatly appreciated.

I look forward hearing  from you

 

Barrie J Dent

All the info you need is online. You are coming here to the Philippines to get married so you will need to be here at least 3 weeks prior as for a start the marriage license you need will take 10 days before you can use it plus if the girl is under 25 then more procedures. 

Normally, your embassy or something like Births, deaths and marriages or similar in the UK will issue your Certificate of no marriage.  If you show up here with just divorce papers I think you will end up at your embassy in Manila to get what you need.

Here is just one site to get an idea, but plenty of them. https://britsinthephilippines.top/getting-married-philippines-british-filipina/

Questions 

Have you been here to the Philippines before?

Have you met the girl in person?

Are you intending to take her to the UK? 

[Barrie J Dent]

I already have the documents  to be completed  to get a   13A visa whats all this about going to Singapore to see the doctor and xrays   etc etc, I think I owe you a bottle of champagne!!!

B J Dent

[Barrie J Dent]

27 minutes ago, Jollygoodfellow said:

I have no idea of what a FIN is. What you need is a certificate of no marriage or equivalent in the UK to say you are free to marry. I will move this to your marriage question topic.

Yes  I have divorce  Documents,  I have two  sets one from the Dominican  witnessed  by the US consul, and one from the UK, for the same person, any further help will be greatly appreciated   I have been to the Philippines many times in the navy but the wording  of what to do gives me a Headache

[Joey G]

Barrie... did you read these links yet? They might help.

https://londonpe.dfa.gov.ph/131-faqs36

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/marriage-in-the-philippines

[Jollygoodfellow]

39 minutes ago, Barrie J Dent said:

I already have the documents  to be completed  to get a   13A visa whats all this about going to Singapore to see the doctor and xrays   etc etc, I think I owe you a bottle of champagne!!!

B J Dent

You can't get a 13a unless you are married.  Sort that part out first.

[Snowy79]

Luckily you have a few months to do some homework before arriving here.  Almost all of the information required can be found on the relevent Embassy websites.  A word of advice about the British Embassy in the Philippines, they are pretty much set up to do trade deals and not much ssistance to the average British citizen here.  Get everything done in the UK before arrival. 

Good luck on your pending marriage, hopefully your experience of visits in the Navy has given you a good insight into the possible pit falls of marriage here.  From a personal point of view unless you've lived here for a good year and been around your partner and her family I'd recommend slowing down and seeing if the Philippines is for you.  A good friend of mine got married 6 months ago with the hopes of taking his partner to the UK but is finding getting her a visa almost impossible, another has been married 5yrs and has two kids and can't get his partner to the UK either.  One has been seperated and stuck in the UK for about 1 1/2yrs now without his wife the other now looking at trying to get her to Malta to live. The UK has really clamped down.