[QUOTE=DickBump;2197923]I would just add that my now pinay wife was able to secure a 1 yr US tourist visa and then was able to secure a 10 year tourist visa while we were first "dating". .............................[/QUOTE]Yeh, that was many years ago. We are talking about now. Very different now, after thousands of them did not leave country before their visa expired.
Another friend of mine has spent 2 years to and fro, trying to get his long term sweetheart into his country. She made a small mistake on the visa application form. Authorities will jump on that. Any excuse to avoid issuing a visa to filipino's, who do not respect laws / rules. Foreigner must help girl friend fill in the visa form and preferably be in her presence when she submits it at Consulate / Embassy. My "2 year" friend was asked a bribe to ignore mistake on his sweethearts application form. He did not pay bribe, she did not get visa. Still trying 2 yrs down the track. He refuses to entertain bribing.
Another guy told me his girl friend was married to a pinoy (male flip). For a substantial bribe, Filipino embassy employee, helped foreigners girl friend submit visa application as a single woman. He told her to go to foreigners country and stay there. That is, not return to Philippines. She got the visa and left pinoy husband (trike driver, LOL) behind.
The visa 'monkey business' seems to take place in Manila Consulates / Embassies. Of course, trying to bribe a public official would carry a heavy prison sentence. Only consider if embassy employee initiates things along those lines. Best to meet him / her after work and plan the m. O. Including filling out the visa application in his presence, at the local coffee shop.
ST, ST. The ladies are programmed at birth for ST. Go with the flow, and blow blow blow, into that hoe, hoe, hoe.
