Getting my girlfriend to Europe?

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I wanna see my girlfriend ive been to Philippines twice now and met her family, now wanted her to meet mine

Im 26 she is 30 years old. We met in the mall at a dance event and fell in love. It's been 1 year since we have seen each other

The hard part is Philippines does not make sense right now. My income is unstable, but Its draining us apart that it's been 1 year since we saw each other, more of drifting

She sacrificed a lot of career opportunities working on Yacht or in Dubai

I don't wanna go to Philippines. Right now its politically unstable, I don't have rent to pay back home and the heat wave is strong + inflation is really bad value for money

The second issue is how strict 3 months Schengen visas to Europe are, they want you to have a flight ready, with a non refundable ticket BEFORE its even approved for Filipinos. Us Europeans can go anywhere around the world without visa, and traveling to my town in Europe which has a very SMALL airport which further increases fees instead of traveling to neighbuor country as I have heard or it would get denied. On top of that she needs to buy tickets to Cebu (shes from Mindanao) to get approved for tickets

That would mean since we both have small or unstable income, we either have to split the flight ticket cost (which has almost went up 40%.) from 800 USD to 1200 USD, which means she would pay 2 months of her wage just to visit me for 2 months and work remote. WHICH IF DENIED I CAN NOT CANCEL IT AND WOULD LOSE THE MONEY ON THE FLIGHT if not refundable ticket, meanwhile waiting for 3 MONTHS VISA takes a LONG waiting time while having to wait in CEBU or Manila for hotels, other cost. So you understand im frustrated with how slow the whole process is, its not online.

Meanwhile another option is we can travel to Cambodia or Vietnam but that won't build relationship other than meeting my family, we would do sightseeing and go back, so the plan is to now meet my family after I met hers. It would have to be coming her to Slovenia. My brother said her and her mom want to move to Slovenia but she is telling me she never wants to move here, and wants a life in Philippines.

She is also not happy my friends are affecting me, telling me shes only with me for European citizenship or residency and I think my girlfriend truly loves me. But they are making me doubt myself because they are saying it's every Filipina's dream to move to Europe.

She also keeps telling me how other richer men than me with other partners sponsor or pay for all visa and she is stressed cause she has to do herself (after 5 years no stable income Im unstable right now myself)

Posted Jun 12, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC

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