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Marites is a Filipina lady (from Philippines), now married to Australian Citizen Trevor.

The Manila Embassy quotes 6 months for the processing of fiancee (prospective marriage) visa applications. Most of ours are taking around 4 months.

Two visas granted yesterday. That means two Filipina ladies on their way to Australia very soon, and two Australian men who have some house-cleaning to do! This is very very satisfying.

We changed a couple of things on the site which may well be of interest. The Finding Your Girl page has some updates on the early days of the relationship and how to manage your expectation.

Back on the same topic….. Every week we get somebody who has usually just returned from Philippines, madly in love, and missing his girl. Usually he’s been back a week or so.

Had a nice moment on the weekend. We tend not to meet our clients all that often, seeing as most are many thousands of km away. But we had lunch at the Manila Club with a client couple on Sunday.

I tend to come down hard on these, and I regularly talk people out of them. They’re not impossible to get.

We just added a free book to our site. It’s a condensed travel guide, written by Perry Gamsby, invaluable for anyone traveling to the Philippines for the first time.

Welcome all! This is the first entry in the FilipinaWives/DownUnderVisa BLOG page. Please watch this space for developments.