Canadian Marrying a Filipina Divorce Papers

Wherever you marry you will need certification to say you are free to marry again. Your Consul/Embassy handle that here through your own Registry of Births Deaths and Marriage. Here is complicated. Best wait or marry in another country or after you return.

 

The USA Consulate just asks if you have the divorce decree, nothing more. You can go to Hong Kong and get married and save yourself a lot of hassles

 

Do you have any information you can share on paperwork required, time in HK, and cost to get married there?

 

Many that are married here go through the whole ceremony, and furnish all the required documents, complete filling out the correct marriage license information.

However to solve the "no divorce" concept in the Philippines should there be a problem, they do not file the final papers. The papers can be filed much later if everything works as planned, if things do not work out then separation/divorce is not even a requirement for splitting up, as there was no legal marriage. A lawyer with some balls (if not removed by his last wife) can explain the concept to you in more depth. I do not mean to be a pessimist but as noted here many have tried to have a "forever" marriage and it just does not work for them, no reason not to be prepared for all the situations that may arise.

How many Filipino couples do you know that introduced them as married but will eventually admit that they really not not formally married? They use the same system I am explaining to you.

 

I am not coming at this from the "marriage insurance" aspect although I know many are concerned about it. I am looking for alternatives to the time and fees incurred with filling out forms and supplying documents (including divorce) to finally get to the marriage license stage here. My thinking is why spend $2,000 (no idea what the real amount would be) and 6 months banging my head against Philippine processes if for the same amount I could go to Hong Kong for a week, get married and have a honeymoon? So, a lot of fees and processing time vs vacation.

Hmmm, maybe I am getting far enough away from this older thread I should start a new one.

 

Take a 3 day vacation and marry her in Hong Kong . Less hassle and no record of it in the philippines

 

I am also a Canadian. Take her there on a visitor's visa (or fiance). Once there she can do an affidavit of eligibility to marry. Your 2 divorces will be in the registrar computer. Marry her there. Simple....

 

Nope, as a finance/accounting guy I am looking for the biggest bang for my buck (highest return on investment). Long drawn out paperwork and extra fees vs. quick and easy plus a vacation. Why wouldn't you pick option 2?