For anyone who has been here in the Philippines for a while and still on a tourist visa you know about how the fees at Bureau of Immigration are always changing. When I first moved here, if you waited for your visa extension to be processed, you were charged a 500-peso “Express Line Fee.” This [...]
In The U.S. just as here in the Philippines, there are different ways of obtaining residency. Here you can receive residency from a marriage to a Filipino, by signing up for a Retirement Visa, there is even a new way if you own a business with ten or more employees.
For a 13a Visa, which [...]
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Saturday Elena and I joined her group of expat wives, a few of their kids and two other of us husbands and went to use the pool at the Marco Polo Hotel. At one point there was a commotion and I asked what was going on. They all mentioned Noynoy Aquino was there on [...]
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My Friend and fellow Blogger John Ray of Palawan Anecdotes sent me this article. He has written a few this past week about his beloved past President Corazon Aquino. I hope you will enjoy his words and sentiments about his country which he loves and cares about. These are John Rays words and he asked [...]
Many foreigners move to the Philippines for different reasons. Most are men and most are in retirement age. Maybe you just got tired of life and stress in your home country. To move here you must have some savings or pension to support yourself and your possible new wife if you’re single. Maybe you know [...]
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What do I mean by the title “Look before you Leap”? If you have thoughts of moving to the Philippines to meet and marry a lady, use the old street crossing motto “Stop, look and Listen”. Do not just meet a lady online, pack up and move here. There is no way to know who [...]
I guess my timing was bad. I started researching and working on an article about Saftety in Mindanao. You see, even though the Embassys have there warnings, there has not been much terrorist news lately in Mindanao for a while until recently.
When I started writing I could only remember the 3 Red Cross workers [...]
In America we would go to the doctor for a yearly checkup. Blood tests, chest x-rays, blood pressure etc. As we get older there are checks for cholesterol, prostate, colon cancer and other conditions.
Then as we are supposed to do is go to the dentist every 6 months for checkups and teeth cleaning. At [...]
I was originally to start writing how some people find ways to make an income but Wildcat left me a comment with a very moving link to a video.
This video showed how someone goes to restaurants to get their food wastes to bring to his family and poor neighbors.
All over Davao and I [...]
Many readers here are looking to move to and live in the Philippines. I am sure many of you have researched the hows and whys of moving here but I thought it might be of interest to those who has not.
The information I will give will be as accurate as I can find, but [...]
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This past Wednesday one of the Ex-Pat organizations I belong to, Friends of Mindanao, had a field trip to visit the Command Center of 911 Davao City.I am writing this from memory, so I ask for forgiveness of any errors.We were greeted by Colonel Mario Verner Monsanto (Ret.), a retired military officer. In 1997 he [...]
Yesterday I met Bob Martin for coffee at a Fagioli, a new coffee shop here in Lanang, Davao. It was a nice clean place and has many items to drink and eat. The deserts looked good, but since I am watching my weight all I had was some lemonaid.As I walked in another friend of [...]
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