Bridging Two Worlds

An Australian Guide to Love, Family, and Life in the Philippines

Published by Down Under Visa · Based on the experience of Jeff Harvie, RMA (MARN 0959797)

If you’re an Aussie bloke in a relationship with a Filipina — or thinking about one — this is the book Jeff wishes someone had handed him before he started his own journey.

Bridging Two Worlds is the Down Under Visa guide to what the visa forms don’t cover: how to actually build a life together across two very different cultures. It draws on nearly two decades of Jeff and Mila’s own marriage, and on thousands of Australian-Filipina couples Down Under Visa has helped through their applications.

Across 12 chapters, you’ll find honest talk about:

• The two ways cross-cultural marriages fail — the Aussie who tries to dominate, and the one who leaves his spine at the airport
• Filipino cultural concepts every Australian sponsor should understand: utang na loob, hiya, pakikisama, pamahiin
• Managing family financial expectations without being either stingy or a walking ATM
• Traditional courtship (ligaw), the barkada, and the shared tagay glass
• Raising children in a dual-culture household
• What your Filipina partner is really feeling during the visa process
• The silent culture shock she’ll face when she lands in Australia
• What a fully blended cross-cultural marriage looks like decades in

It’s not a legal guide. There are no forms and no fees. Just the wisdom Jeff and Mila have earned from doing it themselves and watching other couples do it too.

Free download. No email required.

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