Road to Marriage 2024
We are a German-Filipina couple (guy: German, girl: Filipina) who lives in the Philippines (Taguig City) permanently and we recently got civilly married in the Philippines (June 2024). In Summary: We started to research about the requirements in January 2024. The German reached out via email to the Registry Office ( Standesamt) in Frankfurt (last residence in Germany) and the Botschaft in Manila to get the requirements. The Filipina then gathered her requirements from the list of documents that might be needed for the "examination of documents" by the Botschaft. We were VERY lucky and thankful that the authorities decided to skip the document examination and got our Certificate of capacity to contract marriage ( Ehefähigkeitszeugnis) and the corresponding Consular Certificate from the Botschaft much earlier. This allowed us to work on the Marriage License application in the Philippines immediately and got civilly married in 6 months. As obtaining the documents and meeting ...