What visa am I better on and why. Any info will be great. Balikbayan 13a Other Back ground Married to Filipina. Wife is duel citizen, Philippines / Aust Plan is to come for a year see how it works out. Income from Aust Australian tax resident Will exit serval times a year Plan to travel later this year.
As of now, there is no visa on arrival, so either way its a trip to the embassy for you if you will drop anchor here, I would suggest now you have some time to go and do the 13a in your country now and get it behind you and out of the way (will be a lot less messy in terms of requirements if you do it there) you could just get a straight-up tourist visa (9a) but you will still have to do the extensions as per normal every 59 days, and if you plan on leaving a few times a year like you say then currently you will have to apply for tourist visas again from your next country again the balikbayan privilege is on hold now too, and who knows when they will relax that and indeed the visa on arrival that was on offer up to the pandemic I would suggest doing the 13a now in your country, then they will give you a sealed envelope that you take to the BI at Intramuros, when you get here
Please remember that if you get your 13A visa in Australia you will have to arrive into the Philippines within 6 months of it being granted or it will expire. I know because it happened to me.
There is an investment visa (SIRV). I believe you have to invest 70k USD in philippine stocks or approved government projects. Unlimited entry/exit so long as you maintain that amount. No woman, employer, school or retirement agency can hold the visa over your head and you can also benefit from capital gains. With the local economy being in the shitter and covid vaccines on the horizon it may be a great time to invest.
Is this off-topic - you decide! Many countries offered (some are currently on hold) special Visas for some form of cash and a few new ones are joining that band in view of the pandemic. It will be interesting to see how many countries try to encourage ex-pats to come there, to help rebuild damaged economies.
I think it is a good idea for countries to do. I'm seriously considering the SIRV right now. I think the economy is sh*t here and can't do anything but recover. There is obvious risk investing in developing economies but I feel given the circumstances it is worth the risk. Now if only I could find a trustworthy financial institute in the country that has experience in dealing with SIRV visas.
Thanks all, as I have time up my sleeve may be best to start the 13a process and get everything ready but not submit it to I know a date to leave. With the SIRV dose buying property come under that investment? Im not buying at the moment just curious and seams to be some bargains around at the moment.
you are a foreigner, you cant strictly own anything, in the real sense or ownership https://visasphilippines.com/philip...nal, who is,he has not been institutionalized
I have been doing the AXA lark for 9.5 years now (pay 20k for the first 5 years then its invested for the next 5 years), should get the return in January 2022 ( I figure I will just get back my investment, and that fine too as just didn't want to lose the principle), so if get back what I actually put in then I'm happy I did two of them one for each of my kids in the meantime, the wife opened a metro sec trading account just f und it with our Metrobank account and now we do it all ourselves, I confess to knowing nothing about trading /stocks but I know enough about San Miguel and Robinsons, Jollibee, and another few biggies to know they are going nowhere anytime soon, so that's where we put our money and its strictly long term (minimum 10 years), so what we used to put into the axa every month (500 US dollars) we now buy the equivalent in shares every month. so I guess I could try to see about that visa and use all them monies/shares to see if I can get that visa I'm not in the Philippines long enough in any stretch to get the 13a, and a nuisance to be dealing with that immigration there in that satellite office (not the staff per se), just the whole mumbo jumbo The Philippines is going nowhere anytime soon (but do learn mandarin for the lifers here), not whilst they have to hands to put up and out
I got a 13A in Oz with my first Filipina wife. One big adavantage doing it overseas is it is permanent on arrival in Phils no one year temporary status.
