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IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Notice to Public MEMORANDUM:

FROM:THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

TO: ALL HEARING OFFICERS PUBLIC
INFORMATION and ASSISTANCE
COUNTER CENTRAL RECEIVING SECTION

DATE: 19 APRIL 2011

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Starting May 2011, the Office of the Executive Director will no longer send notices to applicants of visa applications approved by the Board of Commissioners (BOC). Instead, all the above-mentioned personnel are hereby enjoined to inform BI clients that BOC’s approved visas could be viewed in the BI Official website (www.immigration.gov.ph).Thank you.




Sgd. ERIC E. DIMACULANGAN
OIC-Executive Director

LIST OF BOC ACTED APPLICATIONS




Balikbayan Program

Tourist Visa
- ACR I-card for Tourists

Non-Quota 13a Visa

ACR I-card for Residents

General Application form

Philippine Immigration website

Special Resident Retiree Visa (SRRV)

SVEG - Special Visa for Employment Generation. (read our discussion on SVEG HERE )

Reasons for Deportation

For help & advice on Visas, renewals etc check out fellow Brit Paul's Cebu Expat Services.

NOTE from Immigration:

All applicants / visitors are required to dress properly. Applicants wearing shorts, sandos, and slippers will not be allowed entry to Immigration Office.


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uzicom DoT entices foreign senior travelers with discounts, visa-free stays 3 Apr 21 2012, 9:04 PM EDT by uzicom
Thread started: Apr 15 2012, 6:26 AM EDT  Watch
FOREIGNERS who are looking to retire in the Philippines will soon be allowed to stay as tourists, visa-free, for six months in the country, a Department of Tourism (DoT) official announced yesterday.

Tourism Secretary Ramon R. Jimenez, Jr. said at the Makati Business Club meeting yesterday that senior citizen tourists will also soon be able to enjoy discounts on local services and establishments.

"Those who are speculating on retiring in the Philippines will automatically get six months visa."

Mr. Jimenez explained that future retirees from other countries will need to apply as a retiree so they can get six months of visa-free stay in the country.

"They will have time to see whether they want to spend the rest of their life here," he added.

Mr. Jimenez said that 38% of people who travel internationally are senior citizens.

"By the end of the year, the Philippines will be the first country in the world to grant senior citizen rights [to tourists]," the Cabinet official said.

The lost revenue from the senior citizen discount will be sufficiently offset by the tourism revenue boost expected from such a move.

With the discount, senior citizen tourists -- many of whom come from Japan, the US, the UK, Australia and Germany -- might be enticed to spend more in the Philippines, the tourism chief said

http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Nation&title=DoT-entices-foreign-senior-travelers-with-discounts,-visa-free-stays&id=49254
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uzicom Overstaying American arrested in Cebu 5 Aug 17 2011, 10:11 AM EDT by uzicom
Thread started: Mar 10 2009, 10:29 AM EDT  Watch
Agents of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) have arrested in Cebu an overstaying American who is a fugitive from justice in the US where he is wanted by authorities on 38 counts of theft and embezzlement.

Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan identified the American as Donald Martin Steffensen, 69, who was arrested by BI operatives last Feb. 20 at his residence in Lapu-Lapu City. The arresting agents were armed with a mission order from Libanan who issued the same at the request of the US embassy in Manila. Libanan said Steffensen will be deported to the US to stand trial before a court in California where he was charged with 32 counts of grand theft and financial abuse of elders.

He added that the American is the subject of an arrest warrant that the superior court in Madera County, California issued against him on April 8 last year.

The US embassy did not provide a detailed account of the offenses that Steffensen allegedly committed, although it is known that the offense “financial abuse of elders” involves the theft or embezzlement of money or property from an elder.

The victim is usually manipulated into turning over his money or property to the abuser and it could leave the victim totally broke as a result of the fraudulent scheme.

When interviewed by BI officials in Cebu after his arrest, Steffensen recounted that he was a financial insurance planner in the US before he left to the Philippines. He also said that he owned an insurance company called Samson and Delilah Enterprises in Las Vegas, Nevada.

According to Atty. Floro Balato, BI spokesman, the fugitive is already an overstaying alien and is unable to produce his passport up to the present. Balato said a records check showed that the American, who is married to a Filipina, last arrived as a tourist in Manila on Feb.5 last year and has not left or applied for an extension of his stay ever since (BI News)
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rmg_ronin2 SVEG - Special Visa for Employment Generation (page: 1 2) 32 Jul 6 2011, 5:55 PM EDT by magnotti
Thread started: Aug 19 2009, 10:20 AM EDT  Watch
Hi All,

I decided to bite the bullet and try for the SVEG as spelled out in:

"EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 758 - PRESCRIBING GUIDELINES FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL VISA TO NON-IMMIGRANT FOR
EMPLOYMENT GENERATION"

In a nutshell, formalise my business here with a local incorp or whatever, hold the majority of equity and employ 10 people with all the prescribed benefits, SSS, Pag-Ibig whatever.

I'm sure it will be a winding road but I do have some staff already, need a few more, and clients can take a few outsourced workers so here goes.

My lovely lady Debs will start gathering all the info and paperwork and as nobody on the forum seems to have done one of these I'll post an update to this thread as it rolls out with progress (or lack thereof), obstacles, realities etc

Should be interesting, of that I am sure...

OK, start the engine, off we go

Ta-ra!

Steve
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