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(Eagle News) — Foreigners who were hired to work here by employers based in the Philippines may now be given work visas, the Bureau of Immigration announced. According to the bureau, this was after Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente issued an operations order allowing companies that wish to engage such services to apply for a 9(g) working visa on behalf of those foreigners outside the Philippines. Upon approval by the bureau, the order granting the visa […]
(Eagle News) – Foreign nationals working in Philippine offshore gaming operations (POGO) should pay taxes and comply with the country’s tax laws, as various government agencies met to consolidate the list of foreign workers who should pay taxes, according to the Department of Finance (DOF). The DOF said it is now working closely with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) as well as with other government agencies, including the justice and labor departments, to […]
(Eagle News) – China will not adopt a “tit-for-tat” approach should the Philippines decide to deport illegal Chinese workers, the Chinese embassy said on Thursday, Feb. 28. According to the Chinese embassy, in the first place, China “adheres to the principle of non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs.” Secondly, it said China “respects the laws and regulations of the Philippines, and therefore “holds that Chinese nationals should not stay or work illegally in foreign countries […]
(Eagle News) — Bubuo ang lokal na pamahalaan ng aklan ng isang konseho upang mapigilan ang mga banyaga na magtrabaho sa Boracay. Ito ay inirekomenda ni Aklan LGU Consultant Odon Bandiola matapos na mapaulat na dalawang libong iligal na foreign worker ang nagtatrabaho sa isla. Nagmula ang impormasyon sa datos na nakalap ng Bureau of Immigration at ng Department of Labor and Employment. Nitong nakaraang buwan lamang, pinagtibay ng gobyerno ang 25 billion pesos na […]
(Eagle News)– Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday, Jan. 24, blamed a Philippine labor attaché for the United States’ government’s decision to ban for one year Filipinos from obtaining H-2A and H-2B visas to enter the US. “One of our labor attachés questioned such visas so I guess we got what we asked for,” Locsin said on Twitter, without giving names. In a separate Tweet, Locsin said the labor attaché in particular “denounced work/study J1 visas […]
(Eagle News) — Mahigit tatlong daang libong manggagawa ang kailangan ngayon ng Japan para sa 14 na industriya. Sa Abril, may ilulunsad na bagong employment track kung saan may pagkakataon ang manggagawa na madala ang pamilya at magkaroon ng “immigrant status.” Nakipagpulong na ang mga opisyal ng Japan sa Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) para ilunsad ang bagong employment track na tatawaging “specified skilled worker visa.” May dalawang kategorya sa ilalim ng bagong programa depende […]
(Eagle News) — Senators have agreed to require the Bureau of Immigration to coordinate with the Department of Labor and Employment before it issues special working permits to foreigners who intend to work in the Philippines for less than six months. The senators came to an agreement upon the advice of Senator Joel Villanueva, who questioned the BI’s authority to issue the permits even with what he said was its lack of technical capability to […]
QATAR, Middle East – The population of the Middle Eastern kingdom of Qatar reached 2.5 million due to the large number of foreign workers, according to the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics.Making up 90%, an overwhelming majority of the country’s workforce is made up of foreigners. Filipinos make the second largest group of foreign workers in Qatar which is the third most popular destination of overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East. (Eagle News […]
