No Sunday marriage in the Philippines + age gap

[BeShoo]

(New topic started from another thread for easier reference.)

Im just new here. Me and my husband got Married last August 2010, Now we are waiting for our authenticated marriage certificate so we can proceed to our application.

Here is my situation.

We met online way back October 2005- Met in real Jan 2006.. since then he always visits me every three months, overall he visit me 11 times for 5 years and this year we decided to get married.

1. Before i applied for trv and caregiver's visa and the two application was solicited! .. i read some forum site that multiple of entry will cause refusal! soo i hope this will not be a problem!!

I can't understand what you are saying. I don't think that would be a problem.

2. We get married sunday, and we have a beach wedding.. in a resort here.. but on my marriage cert it says that we married monday and the marriage was held in trial court coz the judge said there is no sunday marriage in philippines. so what i will gonna do now? i will just at ease whats written on the marriage cert??

Whatever you do, don't lie about when you got married. Just say that you had a beach ceremony on Sunday and that the marriage became official in a legal sense when the judge issued the certificate on Monday. That is perfectly true and that is what you need to say. There is nothing wrong with that. If they ever found you trying to hide the fact that your ceremony was one day before the certificate, they will suspect fraud. You don't want to hide or alter anything. As long as neither of you were still married to someone else on either of those days, you have nothing to worry about.

3. We had a big age gap. but we had lots of evidence that our relationship is geunine! DO you think almost 5 years in relationship is enough to satisfy them that our relationship is genuine??!? and do you think age gap matters??

The really important thing to satisfy them that your marriage is genuine is the part about how you met and what you did together before the wedding. Get every evidence you can of those 11 visits. If possible, get photographs from each one. Get receipts for any money you spent together during those visits. Get any boarding passes or even plane tickets from those times. Cards, letters, anything you have that shows the development of your relationship over time.

Read the items at this link and gather together any hard evidence of the things mentioned: Factors in the genuineness of a marriage. Anything you can get on paper will help, including written statements from your family and friends.

The age difference should not be a problem as long as other factors are good.

 

[chelley]

Re: No Sunday marriage in the Philippines + 5-year age gap

i think the age gap is more than 5 years... but the relationship is 5 years long... that's what i read... IMO 5yrs isn't that big of an age gap... 25 years yes, maybe even 15.... but 5 isn't even trendy lol

 

[BeShoo]

Sorry for that "5-year" thing. She didn't say how big the age gap was. In any case, the important thing is whether the couple has interests in common and whether they have future plans for their life together in Canada. As long as those types of things are in place, even a huge age gap should not be a big problem. Is probably important to mention it somewhere in the application package, though. Otherwise, they will likely want to ask questions about it in an interview.