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Sen. Chiz Escudero has assured employees of the Bureau of Immigration that their salaries and benefits will remain intact and untouched even with the inclusion of a provision in the 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) that allows the reimbursement of thousands of passengers who missed their flights due to long immigration assessment.
It’s been a long journey from Tonga to the Philippines for Asi Taulava. When he arrived here to play for Blu Detergent in the PBL in 1997, there were doubts as to his ethnicity. Was he actually half-Filipino? Taulava was deported in the wake of suspicions of fake Fil-foreigners claiming blood lineage in 2000. Sonny Alvarado, Rob Parker and Al Segova were exposed as impostors, shipped out and never heard of again. But Taulava fought for his rights, returned in 2001 and later brought his Filipina mother Pauline Hernandez to appear before a panel of immigration interrogators to argue his case. He was eventually cleared by the Department of Justice.
Each month, the Visa Office of the State Department publishes, in the Visa Bulletin, the priority dates for that particular month for the various family and employment-based categories. A priority date is a person’s “place in line” for a visa, meaning immigrant visas (or green cards) would be available for persons whose priority date is earlier than the cut-off dates listed below in the Visa Issuance or Final Action Date column. If your priority date was “current,” but later retrogressed (or “moved backwards” and became unavailable) before your immigrant visa was issued (or before you adjusted status in the US), you would have to wait until it becomes current again.
AHMEDABAD: The desire to settle in the US and get green cards is leading Indians to leave their children at American land borders with Mexico and Canada. In the American financial year 2023 (Oct 1, 2022, to Sept 30, 2023), 730 unaccompanied Indian children were found on these borders by US agencies, the highest number since the 2020 financial year. Data from the US Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) shows a record increase of 233% between 2020 and 2023.
ONE hundred eighty Chinese nabbed in a raid on a suspected online scam and sex trafficking operation last month were deported yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines — A senator has called on the Department of Justice to issue an immigration lookout bulletin for controversial preacher Apollo Quiboloy amid a pending Senate probe into child abuse allegations against him and his religious group.
Senator Risa Hontiveros (SRH): Magandang umaga po sa ating lahat.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 11) — The number of travelers arriving in the Philippines in December at the height of the Christmas holidays is expected to reach 1.5 million, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said Monday.