The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has banned three alleged fixers from entering its main building in Intramuros, Manila after they were caught facilitating the documents of foreigners without authority from the agency’s management.

 

            BI Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. issued the order banning the two men and a woman from the bureau’s premises after personnel from the bureau’s civil security unit (CSU) reported that the said individuals were transacting business for foreign clients.

 

            David said the three individuals were engaged in fixing as they were not accredited by the BI to transact in the bureau.

 

            Fixers have virtually disappeared from the BI since David became immigration chief in March last year.

 

            The Bureau of Immigration (BI) reminded foreigners yesterday that possession of a Philippine entry visa is not a guarantee that its holder will be automatically admitted into the country.

 

            In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. explained that a visa imprinted on a foreigner’s passport merely authorizes the bearer to present himself for admission to an immigration officer in a Philippine port of entry.

 

            “It denotes that the visa application of the visa holder has been properly examined by a consular officer at a Philippine post abroad,” David said.

 

            He stressed that the decision to admit a foreign national into the Philippines is the primary function of immigration officers at the port of entry, adding that it is an international practice adopted by all countries throughout the world.

       The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has issued a lookout bulletin against 38 persons tagged as the brains and perpetrators of a multi-billion-peso pyramid scam that had victimized some 15,000 people in Mindanao and the Visayas.

 

            On orders of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, BI Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. instructed immigration officers in the different ports to be on the lookout for the executives and directors of Aman Futures Group Phils., Inc. who are now being investigated for the scam where the victims’s combined losses amounted to as much as P12billion.
           

            Named as subjects of the BI’s lookout bulletin were Manuel Amalilio, Fernando “Nonoy” Luna, Lelian Lim Gan, Eduard L. Lim, William L. Fuentes, Naezelle M. Rodriguez, Lurix Lopez, Prescilla Ann F. Co, Nimfa Luna, Rico Medina, Dhurwin Wenceslao, Reggie Luna, Araceli Pasco, Marilou Caballero, Shiela Luna Lasaca, Alfredo Aspira, P02 Ariel Real, Ernesto Luna, P03 Rey "Tata" Chang, Edward Amao, Maria Donna Coyme, Araceli Pasco Julian, Darwin Luna, Toto Caballero, Amay Caballero, Eric Lasaca, Judy Amarao, Edna Dalena, Dickens Dalena, Eva Dalena, Isojo K. Casil, Edna Caballero, Patrick V. Ceniza , Diosdado M. Mag-aso, Frederick M. Mag-aso, Leonita Duhaylungsod, Angelo Duhaylungsod and Roger Tenajeros.

            The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has deported two American women who are both wanted for a string of criminal fraud charges in the US.

 

            BI Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. said Lucretia Beth Brown, 49, and Andrea Jaine London, 51, were deported last Nov. 8 aboard a Philippine Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles, California that left the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). 

 

            The women were deported exactly a month after their arrest in Cebu City by operatives of the BI fugitive search unit.

 

            David said the fugitives will be tried before a US district court in eastern Texas which issued the warrants for their arrest.