Fake marriages among Filipinos down: Embassy
DOHA: With authorities making it mandatory that marriage certificates be authenticated by government agencies back in Philippines, the practice of some Filipino men and women living-in together by organising fake marriage certificates is on the decline, says the embassy of the Philippines.
The certificates were illegally obtained, Vice-Consul at the embassy Jabbar Adiong told The Peninsula yesterday. For more than a year authorities here and in the home country have been trying to bring this illegal practice to an end.
The new policy requires married women working here to have their marriage certificates endorsed by the National Statistics Office, the Department of Foreign Affairs and even from the Office of the Philippine President in Malaca�ang.
It is no secret that some Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) arranged spurious marriage documents to cover up illicit relationships. The practice has been a social malady not only among overseas Filipinos in Qatar but in other GCC and Middle Eastern countries as well.
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