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Lies? Or fact-flexibility, Filipino style!

by Jeff Harvie | Nov 13, 2019 | Advice for Filipinas, Relationship Issues

Us Australians are a pretty straight-talking and straight-acting lot, especially older Australians. We might be given to exaggeration about some things, but when it comes to being truthful you can generally rely on what most Australian people tell you....

Filipino Food – Some Peculiar Customs for Australians

by Jeff Harvie | Jul 31, 2019 | Advice for Filipinas, Philippines

Filipino Food – Food customs peculiar to the Philippines No doubt readers/listeners will remember the recent post on the wonders of Filipino street food. Well, we had discussions a long time ago (me and daughter Remy, that is) about some of...

Overseas Filipino Workers and Australian Visas

by Jeff Harvie | Jul 17, 2019 | Advice for Filipinas, Partner Visas

Overseas Filipino Workers (or OFW’s) are those wonderful human beings who leave their homes and families and work in sometimes awful places in some strange countries in order to provide a better life for their families than what their own lives have been. And...

Australian Filipina Relationship Problems – Nationalism and Taking Things Personally

by Jeff Harvie | Feb 6, 2019 | Advice for Filipinas, Relationship Issues

Here’s Jeff Harvie again, going for the Long Title Championship! It was nearly worse, before i decided to leave out the word “generalising”. I will no doubt cover that word though, as I try to explain an area that only the brave or foolhardy will ever attempt....

filipinawives.downundervisa.com for Australian Filipina couples

by Jeff Harvie | Aug 11, 2017 | Advice for Filipinas, Relationship Issues

Down Under Visa is my calling. It’s not just another way of making a living. One of the wisest decisions I ever made was deciding to find someone worth marrying in the Philippines. I didn’t find the right Filipina lady straight away, but after a few failures I...

Will your Australian Filipina relationship last?

by Jeff Harvie | Jul 12, 2016 | Advice for Filipinas, Relationship Issues

Here at Down Under Visa we deal with partners, ie. Australian Filipina couples with the intention of the lady from the Philippines to Australia to be with an Australian man. It’s either with a partner visa or with a tourist visa with the intention of turning it...