Visa Question Best Posts in Thread: Permanent resident visa

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So if your daughter and Wife Enter the PI on their Philippine Passports they are Nationals Yes? So you Enter with your wife and get a BB stamp for 1 year.
neither of them really do not need to extend and as they are here as Filipinos.
After 6 months here you need to apply your 13a in Cebu you need to show you have been here 6 months continual before you can apply.

But, why wait for this, you can Obtain a 13 a now at a Filipino Embassy in the US. and it would be Permanent. No provisional year.

Hope this has helped a little.

Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles

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Fwiw, Dgte's favorite former Cebu immigration attorney advised the other day that the quota visa (don't need to be married) should be applied for asap every January before the 50 available per year are all gone.

You are aware of the visa for former US military personnel that is available? Even 2yr military men can get it. Leo at Commerce Bank does them as does an expat who just got his own, and is now an agent for PRA..

 

Not so any more it is now another application and more money to pay. Some of the Requirements are the same but believe me, it is Not automatic.

BTW it is only probationary for 1 year after that it is Permanent.

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We would like to be there at the 1st of the year if possible and we get all the loose ends tied up here. School year will just be starting here in 2 weeks for our daughter and we need to find out if it is feasible to transfer there to a private school mid way. Also what part of Dumaguete to move too that's new, safe, secure and foreigner friendly, not downtown and not to far off on the outskirts or high up in the mountains way from everything. Close to school we choose or bus route will be a plus.

 

Not really, the BB is issued on arrival and your wife has to be with you entering on a Filipino passport.. As she will be Entering on a US passport the BB Privilege will not be available to her.
the only way to extend a BB is for you both to leave the PI and re-enter together. the BB is not a visa but a privilege to a Filipino National to bring their Spouse & children into the country. You can extend on a BB but it cuts you down to 2 years of your 3 year stay as 1 year has been used up on the BB. to avail the BB she will have to have her Passport.



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