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(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration on Wednesday, Feb. 6, said it was imposing more stringent requirements on foreigners seeking permits to work in the Philippines. According to Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente, applicants will have to submit additional requirements before they can be issued permits. He said work permits to foreigners who wish to work as cashiers, janitors, carpenters, and who wish to hold other blue-collar jobs will no longer be issued, and if someone […]
(Eagle News) — The intelligence division of the Bureau of Immigration is seeking the deportation of actor Tony Labrusca. BI Deputy Commissioner Tobias Javier said the BI’s intel unit recommendation to file a deportation case against Labrusca was for working without a permit. The recommendation also came after Labrusca was seen shouting at an immigration officer at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The officer had allowed Labrusca to stay in the country for only one […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has named a new Sandiganbayan justice and a new immigration deputy commissioner. Appointed as anti-graft court judge was Makati City Regional Trial Court Judge Ronald Moreno, who replaces now-Supreme Court justice Alexander Gesmundo. Lawyer Aldwin Alegre, for his part, takes the post vacated by Aimee Torrefranca-Neri at the Bureau of Immigration. Torrefranca-Neri had resigned in April last year.
(Eagle News) — A Chinese national wanted for alleged economic crimes and corruption in China has been arrested by authorities. In a statement, the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission said it and the Bureau of Immigration’s Fugitive Search Unit, in coordination with Chinese authorities, nabbed Xie Haojie. His arrest came after the PACC’s counterparts from China asked for the Philippines’ help in apprehending Xie, who is accused of “economic crimes and corruption” amounting to P11 billion, in […]
(Eagle News)—A Korean fugitive who escaped authorities in October has been recaptured. In a statement, BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said Choi Youngseop, 52, was re-arrested on Dec. 19, less than two months after he escaped. Morente said Choi was nabbed–on a tip from informants–outside the emergency room of the Manila Doctor’s Hospital in Ermita, Manila where he had undergone a medical check-up. Morente said Choi will be deported once the BI’s Board of Commissioners issues a deportation […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Immigration has arrested 21 Chinese nationals it said were illegally trading in two shopping malls in Pasay. In a statement, BI acting intelligence unit chief Fortunato Manahan Jr. said of the 21, 12 were arrested at One Shopping Center while the rest were nabbed from Two Shopping Center. BI commissioner Jaime Morente said the foreigners were “working in the country without the necessary permits.” “These illegal aliens are brazenly working out in the […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice will act on Australian nun Patricia Fox’s appeal of the deportation order issued by the Bureau of Immigration against her next year. In a statement, DOJ spokesperson Markk Perete said this was because the DOJ only recently received Fox’s memorandum “recently.” “Because of this, and considering that in the meantime, other equally important but more urgent petitions for review have been filed with the Office the Secretary of Justice, […]
(Eagle News) — Catholic nun Patricia Fox on Monday, Sept. 3, asked the Department of Justice to review and set aside the Bureau of Immigration’s deportation order against her. In her petition, Fox reiterated that the BI “prejudged” her case. She also denied she violated the terms of her missionary visa as claimed by the BI, saying that the activities the agency said were “political” in nature were actually “consistent with her congregation’s charism and mission by […]
(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has denied former policeman Wally Sombero’s bid for the dismissal of the plunder charges filed against him in connection with the P50-million bribery scandal at the Bureau of Immigration. The sixth division dismissed the plea of Sombero, the alleged middleman of Chinese businessman Jack Lam, for lack of merit. In junking Sombero’s plea, the anti-graft court said the prosecution had established that Sombero’s act of delivering P50 million–P20 million around […]
(Eagle News) — Members of the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives have filed a bill seeking to grant Filipino citizenship to Australian nun Patricia Fox. Reps. Carlos Zarate, Antonio Tinio, Emmi de Jesus, France Castro, Arlene Brosas, Ariel Casilao and Sarah Jane Elago filed House Bill 7806 after the Bureau of Immigration affirmed its April decision to forfeit her missionary visa in May. This was after it found Fox violated the terms of the […]
(Eagle News)–Australian nun Patricia Fox on Friday, May 25, appealed the Bureau of Immigration order that affirmed the forfeiture of her missionary visa. Fox filed the appeal before the Department of Justice even if the BI said she only had one day to leave the Philippines following the issuance of the order. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said, however, that Fox could still file an appeal in the justice department. In its May order, the BI […]
(Eagle News)—Australian nun Patricia Fox has no plans of leaving the Philippines yet. In a statement issued on Wednesday, May 23, her lawyer Jobert Pahilga said that they would file a petition for review of the May 17 BI order that affirmed a previous order she should leave the country because she violated the terms of her missionary visa. “For the said order, if not challenged, will have far-reaching implications to other missionaries similarly situated with […]
