If your Philippine passport expires and you need a new one, here’s how to renew your Philippine passport in the USA.
Philippine passports are good for a maximum of 5 years. There is a bill at the Philippine House of Representatives that seeks to extend passport validity for up to 10 years. But we don’t know yet if that bill will make it as law and when that would happen.
Packing is a challenge. If you’re moving out of the country, you need to bring only the essentials and let go of anything you won’t need.
But as you start packing your things, you’ll start wondering where all those things came from. And then, you’d start thinking about which ones to bring, which ones to store in your parents’ house (if they let you), and which ones to let go.
It is tough!
There are a lot of things that are really tough to let go–the small clothes of your child, photo frames, books you love, appliances you’ve worked hard to pay for, and a million other things.
It’s not the price tag of these things that make it difficult to let go, but rather the emotional and historical value they represent in our lives.
Our things tell the story of our lives–they are the key to triggering our memories.
If you could only bring everything with you to the United States, why not? But it will be very expensive just to ship all those things from the Philippines.
In February 2015, I got accepted as the top candidate for the Director-level job I applied for. It was great and felt like a leveling up of some of the things I worked on over the past 5 years.
But here’s the rub: I need to move to the United States for this position.
It was a whirlwind application process. I applied for the position toward the end of November 2014, filled up some forms, wrote an essay, and then got interviewed.