We envisioned the Bureau as a dynamic and progressive institution of highly trained, dedicated and honest public servants providing excellent immigration services while ensuring national security and economic development. 

The Bureau administers and enforces the immigration, citizenship and alien registration laws of the Philippines. It also plays a role in the enforcement of RA 9208 also known as the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Acts of 2003.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

To realize this mandate, we established the following as our goals and objectives:

1. To carry out border control and management to ensure lawful movement of people in authorized ports of entry and exit in the country;
2. To provide Comprehensive documentation of foreign nationals to acquire complete immigration records of aliens, being the chief repository of the same;
3. To maintain automated registration and monitoring of foreign nationals to implement the nationwide mapping of aliens, so as to identify undocumented, improperly and incompletely documented foreign nationals;
4. To contribute to economic growth and prosperity for the promotion of tourism, trade and investment in the country through implementation of simplified immigration systems and processes of visa and permit issuances;
5. To help strengthen international relations to assure the standing of the Philippines in the family of nations and to address concerns threatening global tranquility; and
6. To raise the professionalization of the bureau cracy by conducting recruitment, selection and promotion of employees based on merit and fitness and by providing a wide array of opportunities for personnel capability enhancement and technical skills development.