I have a korean bofriend and he always rushing me up to get married with him. What is the difference if I will be getting married in the Philippines or getting married only in Korea? Thanks and hope for your immediate reply.

pagkakasal ninyo at nakuha mo marriage certificate from the city hall, punta agad sa Korean Embassy with your hubby at apply na ng visa… iinterbiyuhin kayo ng consul (pero most likely he’ll only talk to your hubby)… kung hindi mag-stay with you ang hubby mo at babalik siya ng korea, ipadala mo ang NSO marriage certificate mo sa kanya… papa-register niya sa “dong” office ang kasal ninyo at kukuha siya ng family register with your name on it… pag nakuha mo na ang family register, dalhin mo sa embassy kasama ng NSO marriage certificate at ibibigay sa yo passport mo with F-2-1 visa na nakatatak… better apply for 59 days visa para hindi ma-doble bayad mo (kasi kailangan mo rin extend pagdating mo ng Korea)… pag nakuha mo na visa mo, balik ka sa CFO office at bibigyan ka ng Emigrant sticker…

and pag nakuha ko n ung marriage certificate namin from NSO saka ko naman po yon ipapadala sa hubby ko para iregister sa korea..gnun po ba? tpos saka pa lang ako makakapagapply ng visa? o pde po n tourist n lng muna?

you’re welcome.. take it one step at a time, don’t be stressed with the list of requirements you’ll see. btw, after your wedding, see to it that your wedding cert/contract will be forwarded immediately to NSO. you have to follow it up. you have to work on it. while working on them, go to the CFO office right away to get your seminar scheduled. you can attend the seminar while processing your papers…

good luck and God bless….
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luckily, my fiance is not a divorcee so i guess we will not be having problems. thank you and God bless..

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it’s best that you and your fiance visit the korean embassy together. let him show them his passport and his 가족관계증명서 (ga-jok-gwan-gye-jeung-myeong-so) or Certificate of Family Relationship which should not be more than 3 months old from its date of issue here in Korea..

if his Cert. of Family Rel’p is almost 3 months old, they’d ask him to get a new one again (which he could ask any of his family members here to get for him and send [via EMS]).

if by chance he is a divorcee, he also needs to show his 혼인관계증명서 (hon-in-gwan-gye-jeung-myeong-so) or Certificate of Marriage Relationship showing that he really is divorced or that their divorce is already finalized.

from my CFO seminar, I encountered 2-3 pinays having problems with their CFO certificates because their husbands’ divorce weren’t finalized yet (they got married via matchmakers but their falsely or incompletely translated certificates were caught by the CFO personnel).. really too sad for them. these certificates are written in Korean. so the unsuspecting Filipinas didn’t know at first that they were getting married to a married man…
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Thanks! –

Ms Betchay, actually, we have not decided yet where we’ll get married. However, my fiance wants us to tie the knot here in the Philippines. ~not yet final~

Thank you for your reply Ms Jehan. i will just drop by municipal hall and Korean embassy next week. My fiance is excited and wants me to get the needed documents ASAP. ^^ (the feeling is mutual, actually.lol) by the way, i am under 25 y/o. Thank you so much!

Ms Jehan, what is the Korean term for the “Family Register Certificate” so I could ask my fiance to get it? Where will he get the said certificate? Is the last certificate just the same as our CENOMAR here in the Philippines? Sorry I asked a lot of questions.

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