Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers arrested have arrested two foreign nationals with fake travel papers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). BI border control Investigation unit (BCIU) chief Dennis Alcedo identified the duo as 30-year-old Chinese national Zhang Yang and Indian Malkeet...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers have intercepted six suspected victims of an alleged crypto trafficking syndicate while on their way out of the country through the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and at the Clark International Airport. Ann Camille Mina, chief of the BI's Travel...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) operatives have arrested a Japanese fugitive wanted by authorities in his country for alleged involvement in illegal recruitment and falsification of official documents. Bureau of Immigration Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said 50-year-old Amano Mototaka was...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Just under 1,000 children -- separated from their parents while attempting to enter the United States during Donald Trump's presidency -- have yet to be reunited, the current US government said Thursday. When President Joe Biden took over from Trump in January 2021, he...
Deletion by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) of one’s name in its blacklist is easy if you fork over from P1 million to P5 million. This information surfaced during a public hearing by the Senate public order and dangerous drugs committee where the name of an alien, particularly Chinese, could be...
Agents of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) have arrested a foreigner wanted in Greece for alleged involvement in a string of financial fraud cases. BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said 59-year old Renos Neofytou was intercepted on Sunday, Jan. 29, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said it has deported a total of 1,339 foreigners in 2022. BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the unwanted foreign visitors were blacklisted and barred from returning for various violation of immigration laws. Based on the BI data, topping the list of those deported...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco has expressed concern over the increasing number of foreigners posing as Filipinos. Early this month, a Hong Kong-Canadian national was caught at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for misrepresenting himself as a Filipino. The...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has called on the government to thoroughly investigate Bureau of Immigration (BI) officials, saying the Chinese mafia involved in human trafficking of Filipinos may have more connections working within the agency. Hontiveros, at the same time, called for an overhaul of the...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco vowed to show no mercy" to employees involved in human trafficking racket. During the Senate hearing of the Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender headed by Senator Risa Hontiveros, Tansingco bared that he relieved the...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) agents have arrested an American wanted in the United States for allegedly sexually assaulting a disabled woman three years ago. BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said 68-year-old Calvert Leroy Cummings was arrested last Jan. 17 in a subdivision in Novaliches, Quezon City...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) agents at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have intercepted three more victims of human trafficking who attempted to leave the country in the guise of being tourists. BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the passengers were barred from leaving on Jan. 20,...
