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    Filipina 202: MIgrate And Marry Your Dream Filipina
    Filipina 202: MIgrate And Marry Your Dream Filipina
    Filipina 202: MIgrate And Marry Your Dream Filipina
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    Filipina 202: MIgrate And Marry Your Dream Filipina

    By Perry Gamsby

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    This detailed guide to marrying your Dream Filipina also includes basic information on the migration process for the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the EU. The focus of the guide is on the marriage process within the Philippines, what it costs, how hard it is to organize and just what steps you must take to make sure you get it right first time. Delays can be expensive if one of you has to fly back home because you have run out of time for some reason. This book will save you time, money and heartache.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStreetWise
    Release dateSep 23, 2011
    ISBN9781465973580
    Filipina 202: MIgrate And Marry Your Dream Filipina

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      Filipina 202 - Perry Gamsby

      Introduction

      Filipina 202 – How To Marry And Migrate Your Filipina. follows fairly closely on the heels of my runaway best selling success, Filipina 101 – How To Meet And Marry The Filipina Of Your Dreams..

      As you read this book, keep in mind that immigration policies change, laws change, circumstances change. In fact, the only constant is change itself. I have done my best to ensure the information included is accurate at the time of writing, so don’t blame me if someone else changes the facts. This is one reason I love this eBook format; it allows me to include url links right to the web site of the body concerned and the reader can get the latest updates straight from the horses mouth.

      I wrote this book because, apart from my insatiable greed and clamouring for praise and acceptance, I really think it will become a valuable resource for those men following in the footsteps of all of us who already have our dream Filipina. Why reinvent the wheel, right? If you can save some time and money, not to mention heartache and delay from just one thing gleaned from this book then it was worth the money for you. Not only that, I get the satisfaction of knowing I stopped the establishment kicking some other poor schmuck in the teeth, if only for a moment.

      Life truly is for living and although I thoroughly enjoyed the three years I spent in the Philippines right after my wedding, I have really only begun to enjoy married life since returning to Australia and a culture that, while imperfect in many ways, at least I call my own and I belong to. The challenge is helping my Asawa (spouse in Tagalog, wife in Visayan) adjust and enjoy her new life here as much as I can.

      I don’t have all the answers but gleaned from many years of first hand experience of myself and the over 1000 members of my various Yahoo Groups, we have most of the really important ones covered. This book takes the reader on a chronologically logical path from wedding to immigration to settling into her new home and country. You can read from beginning to end or take each chapter as you like. Feel free to join the Forum and add your experiences to the rich melting pot we already share.

      Perry Gamsby

      Sydney, Australia 2005, Updated 2011.

      What’s Inside?

      Introduction

      Part 1 Marriage

      Chapter 1 Don’t Do It. (Only Kidding)

      Chapter 2 Buwad, Bagoong & Brady Bunches

      Chapter 3 Are You Older Than Her Lola?

      Chapter 4 How Many Filipino's Did You Just Marry?

      Chapter 5 Her Place Or Yours

      Chapter 6 Formal Or Free For All?

      Chapter 7 Wed, Fed And Off To Bed In 45 Minutes

      Chapter 8 What Is Required?

      Part Two - Migrating

      Chapter 9 The Paper Chase

      Chapter 10 The Price Of Happiness Ever After

      USA Overview

      Australia Overview

      UK Overview

      Canada Overview

      New Zealand Overview

      EU Overview

      Chapter 11 Nuns From Hell

      Chapter 12 So Long Farewell, Sige Bye

      Chapter 13 Flying High

      Part Three - Settling In

      Chapter 14 We've Only Just Begun

      Chapter 15 Westernizing-Good Or Bad?

      Part Four – Handy Stuff To Know

      US Immigration Information

      British Immigration Information

      Canadian Immigration Information

      New Zealand Information

      EU Information

      Commission On Filipinos Overseas Information

      Obtaining Her Passport

      Obtaining Her Original Birth Certificate

      Helpful Web Sites

      Part 1 Marriage

      Chapter 1

      Don’t Do It. (Only Kidding)

      Given that most men who marry Filipinas are doing it (the marriage thing) for at least the second time, it begs the question why? Surely they learnt their lesson the first time? Genetically man is not predisposed towards monogamy. We are designed to spread our seed as far and as wide as we can. Women, on the other hand, need a strong male to give them the best offspring and to protect them while they are vulnerable nursing and weaning the infant and so on. They need us, we don’t need them.

      So why do we wake up one morning and think I have to marry her.’ or I want a wife?" nature has a few tricks up her sleeve and this is one of them. We get lonely. We are programmed from birth that marriage is the norm, that old or middle aged bachelors and spinsters are miserable and somehow deviant. None of which is true but we fall for it and we get married.

      Modern society has most western marriages failing within ten years, often sooner. Much sooner in some cases. One in every two marriages will fail, often because of money problems or infidelity. See, man is designed to be unfaithful, can’t help himself chemically or something. Keep in mind the worse crime a man married to a Filipina can commit is adultery. You can lose bits of you for that.

      More marriages between Filipinas and foreigners succeed for several reasons. I think the nature of the Filipina has a lot to do with it, far more than any cultural norm that marriage is for life because they are catholic or because divorce is non-existent in the Philippines. You can get a marriage annulled, it just takes longer and costs money but it happens every day of the week bar Sundays.

      Another major factor few might acknowledge is the socio-economic factor. Western man needs wife, Filipina needs man who can provide a secure and decent living for her and her offspring. (if she hasn’t already got offspring, she will expect you to provide her with some. More on this vital issue later). You will find few average foreigners married to Filipinas of A or B class. (A are the

      super wealthy, B are the rich, C are the middle class and D and E are the poor and the destitute) You will find many C and D class Filipinas married to foreigner husbands.

      These ladies have access to the means of communication with foreign men necessary for he to meet she. Internet, postal service, relatives who have migrated overseas can all be methods of introduction that few of the poor and very poor will have access to. The very rich have no need to improve their economic situation and marry amongst their own. If they do marry a foreigner, he is usually wealthy in his own right.

      Make no mistake, the main reason Filipinas look to the west for husbands, in my opinion and that of my wife and many other Filipinas I have spoken with, is that they believe a western man can provide them with a far better life than a Filipino man can. Without the common habits of Filipino men being taken into consideration such as drinking with his Barkada or group of close friends and gambling on cock fights, it is difficult for the more marriage minded Filipino to compete due to the differing standards of salaries and employment between foreigner and Filipino.

      There are many fine Filipino men who are devoted to their wives and families regardless of their earning capacity but there are also many more who are unreliable and lazy, wiling to let the wife earn the daily bread, bring up the children and keep him in Tanduay and Hope (local rum and cigarettes) while he chats up other local Filipinas. It is a phenomenon familiar in many former Spanish colonies.

      So she sees the foreigner as offering a better chance for her future than what the local lad can offer. Luckily there are more than enough Filipina to go around, the Filipino doesn’t seem to be jealous of our taking their women away, perhaps they figure they will get the remittance and kick back and enjoy life.

      What does the foreigner look for in a Filipina? For many it is the lust. The sex. The fact some sexy slim thing half his age wants to have sex with him. So why not marry her and make it a permanent arrangement and he will have her forever? Of course any marriage, at any stage of life with any woman from any country is doomed to failure if lust is the only thread that holds the relationship together. Sadly, the real reason we in the west often marry when we are in our early twenties is because of lust. We think it is love but if it were truly love why does it not hold up to the rigors of everyday life?

      Even today in Asia, marrying for love is not as widespread as it is in the west and it has only been the main reason for marriage for the past two hundred years or so. Before that, the birth of the so called Romantic Period,

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