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(Eagle News) — Foreigners traveling to the Philippines for emergency and humanitarian reasons can seek travel ban exemptions from the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19. Bureau of Immigration Chief Jaime Morente said on Friday, April 9, this was based on a resolution passed by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases in March that authorizes only the NTF to approve requests for entry of foreigners who are not exempted from […]
(Eagle News) — All Bureau of Immigration offices in the Greater Manila Area will continue operating on a skeleton force until April 11. The bureau said in an advisory the decision for only a limited number of personnel to report for work from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays is in line with the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases’ recommendation to extend the enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila, […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration has someone new at the helm of the country’s port operations. In a statement, the bureau said Carlos B. Capulong was designated as acting chief by the Department of Justice in an order on Thursday, April 1. According to the bureau, Capulong, a lawyer, has been with immigration for 17 years. He is a BA Political science, a graduate of Bachelor of Laws and was admitted to the […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration on Wednesday, December 16, reiterated its warning against illegal recruitment after it intercepted three women who had tried to leave the country by posing as seafarers. In a statement, Immigration commissioner Jaime Morente said based on a report from Immigration intelligence chief Fortunato Manahan Jr., the passengers were intercepted at the Clark International Airport before they could board an afternoon flight to Dubai. According to Manahan, the women […]
(Eagle News) — The masterminds of the pastillas scam, the visa-upon-arrival “business model”, and other corruption schemes at the Bureau of Immigration have pocketed a total of P40 billion since 2017, according to Senator Risa Hontiveros. In a statement, Hontiveros said the masterminds of the controversial pastillas scam and other questionable transactions are earning as much as P30 billion by facilitating the entry of Chinese nationals into the country. She said that they are […]
(Eagle News) – A new witness has come out in the open and pointed to former Immigration Deputy Commissioner Marc Red Mariñas as the mastermind in the so-called “pastillas” scheme at the Bureau of Immigration, and how this corruption scheme is continuing up to now. Immigration officer 2, Jeffrey Dale Ignacio, said he was a member of the pastillas group which collects money from tourists, particularly Chinese nationals who frequent the country, during a hearing […]
(Eagle News) –No additional international travel restrictions have been imposed even if Metro Manila and other areas are now under a modified enhanced community quarantine. In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said existing travel restrictions “remain unchanged until these are revised or changed by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID).” He said under the MECQ, domestic flights are suspended. International flights at the country’s airports in Manila, Cebu and Clark, however, […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration has extended the temporary closure of its main building in Intramuros, Manila to Thursday, July 30. The bureau said the extension would allow for the rapid testing of all its 700 employees at the main office, and a disinfection of the building and its premises. So far, the bureau–which had set the temporary closure of the office from Monday to Tuesday only after three of its employees tested […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration main office in Intramuros, Manila will be closed for two days after three employees tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, the bureau said the temporary closure from Monday, July 27, to Tuesday, July 28, was to give way to a disinfection of the office. Bureau chief Jaime Morente said it would also allow for the rapid anti-body testing of all employees in the main office. Those with […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Immigration said it will deport 10 Chinese nationals who arrived in Puerto Princesa City on board a luxury yacht recently. The bureau said the deportation proceedings against Zhang Dengkang, Lin Huawei, Zhou Wei, Xu Yuansen, Lou Xioqiang, Zhao Zhoujin, Chang Liujing, Luo Shui Sheng, Chen Zhen Qi, and Zhao Jian Hui would be initiated because they did not notify and ask permission from port authorities for their travel to Barangay Concepcion. […]
(Eagle News)–The number of international travelers who entered and exited the country dropped by at least 95 percent compared to last year’s figures since community quarantines were imposed. Bureau of Immigration Deputy Spokesperson and National Operations Center (BINOC) Acting Chief Melvin Mabulac said that only 189,000 passengers arrived from March 16 to June 30, a far cry from the more than 5.16 million passengers who arrived in the same period in 2019, or a decline […]
(Eagle News)–Nine Bureau of Immigration officers initially suspected of being infected with the COVID-19 virus turned out negative for the same. In a statement, the bureau said the officers, who were assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, yielded the results in confirmatory RT-PCR swab tests conducted after they tested positive in the rapid antibody tests conducted for bureau NAIA personnel at the airport’s Terminal 3 last June 5. “We are elated upon learning that, […]
