PROBLEM SOLVED - PASSPORTS REQUESTED

In 30 + years of the Immigration Business, I never thought I could solve this client’s case. Was so happy this morning when I received an email requesting Passports from the Manilla Visa Post for these applicants. I have known immigration clients to make mistakes, but this Filipino client, takes the cake.

This Filipino was married with a son in the Philippines and took a job in the UAE like others to support his family. On a regular basis he would send funds home to his wife to support his family like a good husband. He would return home to visit his wife and son whenever he could.

A co-worker convinced him to renounce his Catholic faith and to join Islam which he did willingly. When his wife gave birth to a second boy child, he got her to give the child an Arabic name. After some additional prodding he convinced his wife to also convert to Islam. A few years passed with my client sending funds home again and again to support his family.

My client had not been back to the Philippines in a year and a half but on his next trip home he found out that his wife had just given birth to a third child. The third child’s birth certificate listed another man as the father. After questioning his wife about her second child he arranged to take a DNA test when he learned his second child was also not his son.

The Philippines is a predominantly Catholic country and divorce is almost impossible to obtain in the Philippines unless, you are a Muslim. He divorced his unfaithful wife and got custody of his only son.

After another year he accidentally meant an old high school sweetheart who had immigrated to Canada as a LIC Live in Caregiver. Phoebe now a Canadian had just returned home to visit relatives.  A relationship developed and marriage was being planned. Phoebe protestant family would not allow her to marry a Muslim, so he took courses to convert to his fiancée protestant religion.

Once married Phoebe decided to submit a DIY spousal application because she believed they had plenty to prove their genuine relationship. The decision makers at the Manilla Visa Post did not think the marriage was genuine. They thought the client deliberately became a Muslim so that he could obtain a divorce from his unfaithful wife. After converting back to the protestant religion he was asked what was his religion so they could include that on his marriage certificate and he said CATHOLIC!