The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has opened two new satellite offices outside Metro Manila, making its services more accessible to foreigners living in nearby provinces.
No less than BI Commissioner Marcelino Libanan led the inauguration of the new satellite offices in Taytay, Rizal and Sta. Rosa, Laguna, which could provide the same assistance and services offered by the agency’s main office in Intramuros, Manila.
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New investor’s visa to create 100,000 new jobs – Libanan
0 comments Posted by The Legal Alien at 11:56 AMAt least 100,000 new jobs will be created as a result of the proposed new visa for foreign investors, Bureau of Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan announced yesterday.
The new visa scheme allows indefinite stay in the country for foreign investors who will employ at least 10 Filipinos in viable and sustainable businesses in the Philippines.
Libanan said the proposed new indefinite stay visa, dubbed the "job-generating visa," will be based on actual jobs created by a foreigner’s investments in the Philippines, instead of on his or her supposed capital deposited in the Philippine banking system.
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Immigration officers at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) barred 37 aliens from entering the country during the first semester for attempting to slip into the country with bogus travel documents via the former United States air base in Clark Field, Pampanga.
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said covering from the period of January to June, the 37 aliens were turned back as a result of the increased vigilance of immigration personnel at the DMIA who were alerted over reports that human trafficking syndicates are intending to use Clark as the next transit point for their operations.
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In an effort to rid the country’s key entry points of drug trafficking incidents, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Bureau of Immigration (BI) recently signed a memorandum of agreement for an intensified joint monitoring undertaking against suspected drug traffickers using international and local airports as transit points.
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Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan ordered yesterday that there will be no more lunch break for officials and employees at the bureau’s main office in Intramuros to further reduce the processing time for the granting of visas and visa extensions.
This developed as the Bureau of Immigration’s Visa Issuance Made Simple (VIMS) is reaping plaudits from the transacting public along with its 24/7 nerve center.
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MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Monday reported that it has posted a record income as it breached its billion-peso target for the first six months of the year.
In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said the agency’s revenue has totaled to P1.015 billion from January to June – the first time in history that the agency’s first semester income exceeded the billion-peso mark.
Libanan said the revenue in the first half of the year was P269.7-million or 36-percent more than the targetted P745.7 million for the period, and P204.8-million or 25-percent higher than the P810.4 million earned in the same period last year.
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“If they want war, we are ready to go to war.”
Thus, declared Immigration Commissioner Marcelino "Nonoy" Libanan over the weekend as he vowed to further his bureau’s own war a notch higher to rid all entry and exit points of shameful "escort service" syndicates. Also included in Libanan’s campaign are fake visa extension peddlers.
Libanan declared the war on "escort service" after getting solid information from intelligence sources on the identity of the perpetrators on the massive media smear campaign against him.
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