FOURTEEN EASY STEPS THAT WILL HELP YOU TO PREPARE IN ADVANCE FOR & EXPEDITE YOUR FIANCÉE OR SPOUSAL PETITION

PLAN AHEAD! BEFORE YOU TRAVEL TO PHILIPPINES:

  1. Begin with preparing a box, file folder and large envelope dedicated specifically for documents and evidence for any future petition you may file.
  2. If you met her on an Internet website or club, be sure to print a copy of her complete profile!
  3. Keep and print copies of any and all e-mails that you both send and receive to her. This shows and dates your communications with your Filipina, Pinay friend or fiancé. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you can prove an "ongoing relationship"! You can also save your chat and instant messenger logs. (Warning: although these are also great evidence, when you print them out you may be shocked to learn how long and lengthy they are!)
  4. Keep copies of any and all letters and postcards received from her, and advise her to also keep everything you send to her. (They WILL as to see these things at the interviews!)
  5. Keep copies of your phone bills, and also your phone cards. The USCIS, embassy and Homeland Security will not accept accept the phone cards alone as proof of calls, they just support the actual phone bills you have from your telephone and/or cellular company. The phone bills serve to show the dates, times and both of your phone numbers for each call.
  6. If you have sent her any cash or boxes, be sure to keep copies of any and all receipts, including the shipping and postal receipts.
  7. Make copies of your airline tickets and especially your Boarding Passes.
  8. Tell your lady that BEFORE you arrive, she should have 2 Original NSO Birth Certificates, and her Local Tax Registration Certificate. There are other documents which will be needed, but police and NBI clearances must be dated and will not comply with requirements if not obtained within the allotted time frame.

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