The commonly used visa that we apply for our clients is non-quota immigrant visa. This visa can be obtained by reason of marriage to a Filipino pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Philippine Immigration Act of 1940 - or 13(a) visa. But there are other options aside from 13(a) visa. Please see the list of visas below which can also be applicable in your situation.

1. Employment Visa 9(g)

2. Quota Immigrant Visa

3. Retirement Visa

4. Treaty Trader

5. Temporary Resident Visa (TRV)

6. Special Investor’s Resident Visa

7. Special non-immigrant visa pursuant to 47(a)2

8. Dual Citizenship 

9. Special Non-immigrant visa pursuant to P.D. 226

It seems to me that the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) is already serious this time to strictly implement the ACR I-Card project. If we recall, the BID has issued a Memorandum dated April 5, 2006 giving all registered aliens until August 13, 2006 to secure the ACR I-Card. This means that starting August 14, 2006, any registered alien found in possession of the previously issued paper based Alien Certificate of Registration (ACR) shall be presumed undocumented alien and can be proceeded against in accordance with the procedure for deportation of aliens. The ACR I-Card was supposed to be implemented in December 2004. But since then, the BID has postponed its implementation for a number of times already. 

With the present explosion of outsourcing business in the philippines, many women are just starting their work schedule in call centers and other business process outsourcing (BPO) companies when most of us are already crawling into bed. Women who work at night starting at 10:00 in evening until 6:00 in the morning, the following day, are working on night-shift or graveyard shift. Techically, there is a prohibition under our Labor Code (Article 130) prohibiting women, regardless of age, from working at night, with or without compensation.

The New Rule for the Declaration of Absolute Nullity of Void Marriages and Annulment of Voidable Marriages took effect on March 15,2003. This is now the controlling procedure for dissolution of marriages. The most important amendment to this Rule is that Appeal by the Solicitor General of the Decisions from the Regional Trial Court is not mandatory.

Sometine in 2004, we had the opportunity to publish an Article in our website discussing in complete detail the step-by-step procedure for the dissolution of marriage pursuant to the new rule. For those of you who have not read the article which is published in our website, you can still read the said article here.  

For those who may not know, psychological incapacity is one of the grounds to nullify a marriage pursuant to Article 36 of the Family Code.

I have reviewed the various psychological reports prepared by our psychiatrist, DR. RODNEY FP DALISAY, MD, Diplomate, Philippine Board of Psychiatry, for our cleints in annulment cases. In the course of my review, I have noticed that most of the common psychological incapacity disorders for male respondents is Narcissistic Personality Disorder. A person with this personality disorder usually manifests the following symptoms:

1. Grandiose sense of self-importance: a) Hangs out with his friends more often than with his wife and family.

2. Preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love