kumista!
I hope you guys can help me with some advice. since 2005 I have been staying on and off with my wife in the Philippines on my aussie disability support pension (therefore I have a very low budget!). the government is changing the rules regarding me staying with my family and i now have to stay in Australia. this is devastating news for myself and my family. I love the Philippino people and will now have to bring my wife and son here, so I need some good advice on what forms to fill out and requirements regarding permanent residency for my family.
My son is nearly 5yrs old, we have been married for 4yrs and have been together for 7yrs.
We have been donating books to schools in Bohol and Leyte. the last shipment went last week but we plan on keeping the book progam going, but are now including clothes for the kids. so far we have donated nearly 3,000 books to 25 schools that are all severely underfunded and in remote locations. We are also active rotary members and are involved in medical/ dental missions, caring for the disabled and elderly, reforrestation, mangrove planting etc.
I have recently started a facebook page called 'giving smiles' its all about the book program. we dont recieve any money for the book program, its totally self funded and the books are sent in balakbayan boxes so freight is costly. Books are bought from garage sales and op shops. more recently local schools have been helping out with some of thier old books.
LBC have a page called 'LBC foundation'. we put some pics in there if you want to chek it out.
Im really hoping that a migration agent will read this and have some compassion for our situation and offer some help. All I need is some advice on what to do. Im not very smart, but am good at donating books and helping the poor! Im terrible at anything to do with filling out forms and get really confused quickly due to my disability.
any replies PLEASE keep them to engish as I dont speak tagalog (only Cebuano, gamai lang!)...