{"id":86382,"date":"2017-01-23T02:35:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T07:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86382"},"modified":"2017-01-23T02:35:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T07:35:22","slug":"bi-eases-rules-for-entry-of-asean-delegates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/23\/bi-eases-rules-for-entry-of-asean-delegates\/","title":{"rendered":"BI eases rules for entry of ASEAN delegates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85700\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/424978_133424816796234_2071060977_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85700\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/424978_133424816796234_2071060977_n.jpg\" alt=\"Over 300 Chinese nationals earlier arrested in Clark, Pampanga already deported\u2014BI (Photo: Bureau of Immigration, Republic of the Philippines\/Facebook)\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/424978_133424816796234_2071060977_n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/424978_133424816796234_2071060977_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 300 Chinese nationals earlier arrested in Clark, Pampanga already deported\u2014BI (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialbureauofimmigration\/\">Bureau of Immigration, Republic of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has relaxed its rules on arriving foreign delegates to the ongoing series of preliminary meetings for the forthcoming Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) leaders&#8217; summit.<\/p>\n<p>In a memorandum issued on Monday, Commissioner Jaime Morente directed the conduct of \u201cless restrictive\u201d immigration formalities for ASEAN delegates and their companions, such as their spouses and dependents.<\/p>\n<p>With this, the BI is waiving the imposition of the six-month rule on passport validity, which means any ASEAN delegate can be admitted even if the latter\u2019s passport is valid for less than six months.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, arriving guests will no longer required to procure a return or outbound plane ticket, which is normally imposed on foreign tourists who come here for business or pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Marc Red Mari\u00f1as, BI\u2019s acting port operations chief added that foreign delegates who have no entry visa (for visa-required nationals) and those whose names might appear in the bureau&#8217;s derogatory list, they shall not be automatically excluded or turned back to their port of origin.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the immigration supervisor on duty should conduct secondary inspection on the passenger and seek guidance or instruction for his superiors on what action to take.<\/p>\n<p>In such cases, the passenger concerned, at the option of the BI commissioner, may be issued a waiver of exclusion ground, an allow entry order or an order of non-admission, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Morente has created a special task group composed of close to 100 personnel to ensure that proper immigration formalities and port courtesies are extended to the ASEAN delegates.<\/p>\n<p>It is composed of 95 immigration officers, immigration supervisors and intelligence agents from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and other ports.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the Philippines, the other member countries of the ASEAN are Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Brunei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has relaxed its rules on arriving foreign delegates to the ongoing series of preliminary meetings &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[14139,2982],"class_list":["post-86382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-association-of-southeast-nations","tag-bureau-of-immigration","mauthors-ferdinand-g-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}