The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has reported the proliferation of fake social media accounts on Facebook using the photos and information of its employees to mislead its clients into transacting business with them. BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco warned that these scammers disguised themselves as...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) agents have arrested a Norwegian accused of molesting minors in his country and a Chinese national wanted by his government for running a pyramid investment scam. BI Commissioner Norman G. Tansingco said 50-year-old Karstein Kvernvik alias Krokaa Karstein Gunnar was...
Senator Jinggoy Estrada on Monday, October 3 took to task the Bureau of Immigration (BI) in deporting the 48, 782 foreign employees of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) whose license to operate have been revoked by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR). As of now, the BI has...
More than 70 foreigners, who were allegedly detained and forced to work at a POGO site in Cainta, Rizal, were rescued by operatives of the Philippine National Police (PNP), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), Bureau of Immigration (BI), and Chinese Embassy Friday, Sept. 16. The authorities said...
Two senators - Imee Marcos and Ronald ‘’Bato’’ dela Rosa - seek a whole of government approach on the inflow of foreigners with questionable backgrounds and the rise of kidnapping cases caused mostly by the Philippine Overseas Gaming Operator (POGO) operations that affect the country’s...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has named lawyer Norman Tansingco as the new Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration (BI), Malacañang confirmed. Bureau of Immigration Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles made the confirmation after Tansingco's appointment circulated on social media on...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has directed the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to look into the alleged forgery of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s signature and counterfeiting of the government seal which were affixed in a document supposedly appointing a...
Rank-and-file employes of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) were asking President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to appoint right now the new head of the agency to effectively carry its task of safeguarding the country's borders from unwanted alien visitors. Bureau of Immigration Insiders who requested...
Malacañang is again facing another issue involving a fake document bearing the signature of the President. Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles (Photo courtesy of OPS) This time, it is about a document designating a new Bureau of Immigration (BI) commissioner which, the Palace said, does not...
The House of Representatives Committee on Justice has approved a consolidated bill, which bats for the modernization of the Bureau of Immigration (BI). Seal of the Bureau of Immigration The Committee on Justice convened on Wednesday, Aug. 24 to deliberate on six bills that sought to modernize the...
DAVAO CITY – A precautionary hold-departure order (PHDO) has been issued against Dr. Marvin Rey Andrew R. Pepino, the suspect in the shooting of 19-year-old Amierkhan Mangacop following a scuffle in a local bar last July 2. In an order dated July 26, acting Presiding Judge Emmanuel C. Carpio of...
Through House Bill (HB) 1069, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) Modernization Act, the government will receive an influx of revenue which can be used to fund ayuda (financial aid) programs amid the rising prices of fuel and basic goods, says 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan. Seal of the Bureau of...
