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PSA - DELAYED REGISTRATION IN THE PHILIPPINES OF THE MARRIAGE IN THE UK FOR APPLICANTS OF THE UK SPOUSE VISA

1/20/2019

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PictureECO Immigration Consultancy's good friend and client Mark Lee Lambatan with his wife Stacey and their baby in the UK.
Applicants for the UK Spouse Visa who married their British spouses in the UK without registering their marriage at the Philippines Embassy in the United Kingdom are allowed to register their marriage even if they are already in the Philippines.

One of the major requirements which a UK Spouse Visa applicant must show to the Entry Clearance Officer (ECO) is the validity of his or her marriage with the British spouse.

The main document to prove this is the marriage certificate. If the marriage between the Filipino Citizen and the British national was solemnized in the UK when the applicant visited the UK, there would surely be a marriage certificate duly issued by the UK government.

Since one of the spouses is a citizen of the Philippines, then he or she is duty-bound to register the marriage with the Philippine Embassy in London if they want the marriage to be registered with the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) .
According to Philippine laws, “The marriage of Filipino citizens in the United Kingdom or Ireland must be registered with the Philippine Embassy no later than one year after the date of marriage.

“The Report of Marriage, which is equivalent to the Philippine Marriage Certificate, will be sent by the Embassy to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the Philippines’ foremost civil registry authority. It is from the PSA that applicants will get authenticated copies of civil registry forms on security paper for future consular transactions.

“Personal appearance is not required for filing a Report of Marriage. The Report of Marriage may be filed by sending the forms and the documentary requirements to the Embassy by post, together with a self-addressed stamped envelope, the payment in the form of postal money order, and a note providing the Embassy with the applicant’s contact details.” Philippine Embassy in London website.

The same website lists the following requirements for registering the marriage in the UK:
1. Four (4) accomplished Report of Marriage forms, filled out online and printed, or printed and accomplished using a pen with black ink. All entries must be written in block letters and clearly legible. All four (4) copies must be signed by both parties and not just photocopied.
2. Original copy and four (4) copies of the British / Irish Marriage Certificate
3. Four (4) copies each of the data page of the spouses’ valid passports
4. Supporting documents (if applicable):
a. If the Report of Marriage is filed more than one (1) year after the marriage:
Four (4) copies of the Affidavit of Delayed Registration of Marriage
b. If the Filipino spouse is a widow/er at the time of the marriage:
Original and four (4) copies of the Death Certificate/s of previous spouse/s
c. If the Filipino spouse has had a previous marriage annulled or a foreign divorce recognized in a Philippine Court:
Original and four (4) copies of the annotated Philippine Marriage Certificate for the dissolved marriage (See also Judicial Recognition section)

But what if the newly-weds fail to register their UK marriage at the Philippine Embassy, and the Filipina now applying for the UK Spouse Visa needs a copy of the marriage certificate issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). If the newly-weds fail to report their marriage in the Philippine Embassy in the UK, then the PSA will not have any basis that the UK marriage took place in the UK and therefore cannot issue a marriage certificate.

The applicant for the UK Spouse Visa who is now back in the Philippines processing her application for the UK Spouse Visa has the option to file for the delayed registration of the marriage in the UK.

According to the PSA, here are the documents that need to be presented in order for the marriage in the UK to be registered with the agency:


1. Report of Marriage Form
     Five (5) forms should be printed in A4 paper, originally filled out and item 20 should be notarized by the notary public.
     Entries must be TYPEWRITTEN OR PRINTED LEGIBLY
     Entries must be at the time of marriage of the spouses/subject
2. Marriage Contract / Certificate (original copy should be submitted to the DFA)
3. Birth Certificate of both parties
     For Filipino Nationals - Authenticated Birth Certificate from the PSA
     For Foreign Nationals - Birth Certificate issued by the country of birth with official English translation
4. Passports of both parties valid at the time of marriage and current/valid passport of both parties
     Photocopies of data pages
     In case of unavailability, execute an Affidavit of Non-submission of Document and attach a copy valid/recent passport or any valid ID.
5. Five (5) recent passport size photos of both parties
6. Notarized Affidavit of Delayed Registration [required only for applicants who are married for more than one (1) year]
7. Notarized Affidavit of Two (2) Disinterested Persons [required only for applicants who are married for more than one (1) year]
8. Negative Certification of Marriage Record from the PSA (CRS Form No. 3)

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UK VISIT VISA APPLICATION MUST SHOW APPLICANT'S TIES TO THE PHILIPPINES

1/4/2019

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PictureCongratulations to our dear client Marcia Cleofas (left, in brown overcoat) who just arrived in the UK recently and is now with her lovely Kumareng Dess (right) visiting Kensington Palace in London. Have fun in the UK Marcia and Dess!
For now, ECO-Friendly, the main website of ECO Immigration Consultancy – Philippines will not delve on issues relating to UK Spouse Visa or UK Fiancée Visa but will instead tackle another UK visa application which is the UK Visit Visa.
 
Countless applicants have visited our office in Ortigas, Philippines to inquire about filing for the UK Visit Visa. Just this December 2018, there were five UK Visit Visa applicants who made an appointment to inquire about our UK visit visa assistance.
 
Of these five applicants, three were previously denied after they lodged their respective applications on their own while the other two were first time applicants.
 
We at ECO Immigration Consultancy have always stressed the importance of having a complete set of documents during your first attempt. If you have no record of any first time refusal, the application is already around 30% approved since all that the applicant for the UK Visit Visa need to do is show proof that he or she will return to the Philippines before the lapse of her allowed stay in the UK (if the application is approved).
 
If, however, the applicant fails to show evidence of his or her economic and family ties to the Philippines for lack of documents to prove ties to her country, the application is doomed from the start and it now becomes a burden to file the next time because of this bad record.
 
Well and good If there was no deceit or fraud in the first application, and the ground or grounds for refusal were merely due to the lack of supporting documents due to the inadvertence or mistake of the UK Visit Visa applicant. This can be cured by merely sending the documents to the UKVI on appeal, if appeal is allowed.
 
However, if there was evident fraud on the part of the applicant for the UK Visit Visa, herein lie the problem.
 
As we keep on saying to our dear applicants and readers, it is better to explain why the applicant could not obtain a particular required document rather than attach a forged or false document with the application.
 
In the case of a denied application due to inadvertence or mistake, ECO-Friendly keep on emphasizing, that there is hope since all the applicant of the denied UK Visit Visa need to do is answer the grounds for refusal point by point.
 
Here at ECO Immigration Consultancy, we tell previously denied applicants of the UK Visit Visa not to lose hope since the best way to deal with the refused application is to address the grounds for refusal point for point.
 
This is the best and only possible way to go about a previously denied application. Whether or not an appeal is allowed or not, the only thing to do is address the grounds for refusal.
 
If appeal is not allowed, then the only recourse is to file a fresh application, this time “addressing” the grounds for refusal.
 
ECO Immigration Consultancy would also like to remind its readers that in the case of a fresh application, all the documents that were gathered and attached to the first application, as well as the new documents addressing the grounds for refusal must both be attached to the new application.
 
Next time, ECO Immigration Consultancy blog will again resume its articles regarding the filing of UK Spouse Visa, UK Fiancée Visa as well as other UK Settlement Visa.



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