As you know from reading this site, I just moved back to America a little over a week ago. Now I am preparing to file for my wives Petition for Alien Relative, or better known as Spousal Visa.
To file you need to send an I-130 form “Petition for Alien Relative” and an I-325a “Biographical [...]
At my last post I was still in Inchon, Korea. That was a long experience. There were hotels and rest facilities but keeping on a budget I just walked around or sat at a gate area. Finally the staff manned the gate. I went up and asked if it was possible to get reseated with [...]
It is Wednesday morning and I am feeling like a zombie in the airport in Incheon, Korea. My travels started on Tuesday afternoon. Because of the extra and excess baggage decided to get to the airport early for my 6:30pm flight. A friend of mine with a full size pickup truck assisted us by picking [...]
Recently Rob visited Cebu and Bantayan Island and sent me this story to share with you all.
Greetings from sunny Cebu and Bantayan Island was a wonderfully peaceful and relaxing place. Something you might see in a travel brochure. I have included a few of the many pictures taken there and hope you will enjoy [...]
Continue reading about Cebu and Bantayan Island Trip – part one
One of the readers commented on me writing about traveling to the Philippines. Most of the readers talk about coming to the Philippines or Davao to visit a lady they met online. Most ask about Visas, Accommodations and Budget.
Tourist Visa:
As an American and most other countries, all you need is a passport and a [...]
Rainy season, I have joked about a rainy season here. In my mind, a rainy season in Asia is what I had heard of monsoon seasons in other areas where there were huge amounts of rain and it would rain constantly day after day.
In the two years living here, I have seen dry hot [...]
Friday morning I was at the computer and watching CNN and its reporting on the earthquake and discussions about the destruction in Haiti when all of a sudden the room started swaying. Elena looked at me and said, “we are having an earthquake, what should we do? “ I just sat for a moment and [...]
Continue reading about Earthquakes – Could the Destruction in Haiti Happen in the Philippines
For a while now this site has had a reader and commenter from America. Actually both he and his Filipina wife are readers and commenter’s. They have visited Davao before and had plans to visit again and arrive this month.
A while back he mentioned that once he retires here, it there was something he [...]
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A reader and now friend I have made through this site, at my asking, offered to write an article now and then for my site. His name is Gene Davis.
Gene is an American from North Hollywood, California. He met his lovely wife while visiting Manila in 1996 and they were married in 2003 when [...]
This year as the same last year, I did not have the energy to battle the heat and the crowds and go downtown for the Kadayawan Parades. On Saturday is the parade for the dance teams. These are teams that dress in native outfits and do native folk type dancing. On Sunday is the Parade [...]
Here again is an article from John Ray of Palawan Anecdotes. He is kind enough to be a guest writer at times for my site. Our friendship developed back in January when, as a follower of my site mentioned he wanted to move his blog from blogspot to its own domain. With my help we [...]
Last Wednesday the foreigner group I belong to, Friends of Mindanao, made a road trip to Agusan del Norte to visit the home of one of our members, Richard and Jesa. Their home is in Agusan which is about a 3 hour drive north of Davao. We arraigned for two private vans to accommodate [...]
I receive emails often from readers about places to stay when visiting, planning an extended stay or actually moving to Davao.
This is a difficult question to answer. There are many places here in Davao. For Hotels there are many from high rated Hotels to small inexpensive ones.
If someone is planning to stay for a… [...]
Here in Davao you have different agencies to enforce the laws. There is the PNP, Philippine National Police, then there is the Davao City Police. There is also part of the military Task Force Davao.
For traffic there is LTO, Land Traffic Office and the TMC, Traffic Management Center.
LTO has a lot of jurisdiction [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Types of Visas to Live in the Philippines
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