Philippine Immigration

Two Malaysians arrested at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) three months ago have been deported for involvement in human trafficking, the Bureau of Immigration said Monday.

Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said Balagobal Kannataasan, 26, and Harisan Amirtham, 34, were deported last September 11 aboard a Malaysian Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur.

Libanan said the Malaysians were expelled pursuant to a summary deportation order that the BI board of commissioners issued against them last August 26.

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MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Immigration is nearing its revenue target for 2008, and is poised to register a new record high income, according to BI Commissioner Marcelino Libanan.

In a statement released on Saturday, Libanan said that from January to end of August the bureau had already collected P1.43 billion in immigration fees.

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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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SATELLITE offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Bureau of Immigration will be established in key cities nationwide to bring their services more accessible to those living outside Metro Manila.

In Executive Order 748, President Arroyo ordered the creation of regional offices of the department in Bacolod City, Butuan City, Puerto Princesa City, Baguio City, General Santos City, and Cotabato City which will process and issue passports and extend other consular services not just for Filipinos but also foreigners as well.

Regional consular offices will be headed by a ranking officer and will be manned by “home-based personnel and locally-hired employees,” the President said in the executive order.

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MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Immigration now has a satellite office in Taytay town in Rizal province as part of its decentralization program to make its offices accessible to foreigners outside of Metro Manila.

The office, which was inaugurated on Wednesday by Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan and Mayor George Ricardo Gacula, is at the old Taytay Town Hall at the corner of Rizal Avenue and Kadalagahan Street in Barangay Dolores.

"This office is an important milestone in our bureau's history as foreigners living in the province of Rizal need no longer to travel to Manila to have their documents processed," Libanan said.

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