MANILA, Philippines -- The government has lost close to P200 million in revenues from 2005 to 2007 due to the illegal entry of Indian nationals, Bureau of Immigration (BI) commissioner Marcelino Libanan said Wednesday.
Libanan said there is a wide discrepancy between the number of visas issued by the Bureau of Immigration and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to Indian nationals.
From 2005 to 2007, Immigration records showed 39,452 Indian nationals were given visas but DFA records showed 75,699, or almost double the BI’s number, received visas from 2005 to June of 2007.
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