BI favors new immigration law
By Jocelyn R. Uy
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Wednesday said it was backing calls to change the existing immigration act, saying the law is already “antiquated” and no longer attuned to present realities.
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Wednesday said it was backing calls to change the existing immigration act, saying the law is already “antiquated” and no longer attuned to present realities.
Civil society groups Solidarity Philippines and Kontra Daya on Tuesday said they were bringing to the attention of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) the inadequacies and lapses committed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) during the May 13 balloting.
The National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) said on Sunday that more than 400 dead people have been included in the computerized voters list (CVL) while at least 20 others who have been abroad during the past two elections have not been deleted from the official list.
There were 1.27 million foreign tourists who visited the country during the first quarter of the year, setting the pace for the government to reach the 5.5 million mark for 2013, according to the Department of Tourism (DOT).
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Sunday it would just ignore the lawsuit filed by civil society groups before the United Nations Committee on Human Rights over the use of the controversial precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines in the upcoming balloting.
A convicted Australian pedophile who tried to enter the country from Singapore early this month was intercepted by immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, the Bureau of Immigration said Friday.
The 238,000 overseas Filipino workers who were earlier removed from the official voters’ list by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be able to cast their ballots on May 13 after all.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is preparing charges for preliminary investigation against pasaway (incorrigible) senatorial candidates and party-list groups that have repeatedly ignored notices to take down their illegal posters since the start of the campaign period.
Several Catholic bishops have scheduled Masses in their respective dioceses for the intention of Pope Benedict XVI on the days leading to his resignation on Thursday.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday announced that it will proceed with removing more than 230,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from the official voters list for failing to notify the commission of their intent to vote on May 13.
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced on Tuesday, that it raked in more than P2.7 billion in revenues from services in 2012 due to the big surge in foreign tourists visiting the country.
It has been branded over and over as one of the world’s worst airports. But Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) has a little known advantage that even top-rated airports in the West don’t offer. And a local tourism official hopes to spread the word around—and abroad.
