Commissioner Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan of the Bureau of Immigration has made some enemies in his efforts to ease the processing of visa applications in the country but the positive results from his initiative have earned him more friends and backers.
The 45-year-old Libanan reported that immigration fees in the first five months of the year jumped 31 percent to P812.5 million from P620.7 million year-on-year. The bureau’s revenues were also 25 percent higher than its target of P648.3 million for the five-month period and just P659.3 million short of attaining its full-year P1.47-billion goal for 2008. The bureau posted its highest income ever in 2007, when it registered a take of more than P1.69 billion.
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