Panayam kay B.I. spokesperson Dana Sandoval kaugnay ng deadline para sa mga dayuhang POGO workers

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00:00Deadline for foreign POGO workers, we will discuss with Dana Sandoval, the spokesperson of the Bureau of Immigration.

00:10Ms. Dana, good afternoon.

00:12Good afternoon to you and of course to all those who are watching your program.

00:17Ma'am, today is the deadline for foreign POGO workers.

00:22Please explain to our countrymen, what does it mean to downgrade a visa of a foreign worker in the Philippines?

00:32Yes, downgrading means that the foreign national is reverting to a temporary visitor's visa status because he has a working visa here in the Philippines.

00:44It means that he is surrendering his working visa status here in the country and is ready to depart the Philippines.

00:52If we downgrade, if a foreign national downgrades, he can get a temporary visitor's visa for 59 days after downgrading,

01:02but not to use it to travel or to work.

01:07This temporary visitor's visa is given for the foreign national to wind down his affairs, meaning to prepare for the departure,

01:21to pack, to buy a ticket before leaving the country.

01:26Ma'am Dana, what are the steps or step-by-step process of downgrading a visa that they need to do?

01:33And what will happen to any foreign worker who will not comply with the given deadline?

01:39For the foreign national, their company will be responsible for their downgrading.

01:45They would have to file it with the Bureau of Immigration before the deadline which is today, October 15.

01:52So to consider that they will voluntarily leave the country because they are legally working here.

01:59We're talking about those who used to work in illegal online gaming companies.

02:05We're hoping that they will also leave legally and voluntarily, even before the set deadline.

02:11So once they submit their requirements for downgrading, their company submits their requirements for downgrading,

02:19they will get an exit clearance and they will surrender their alien employment permit for cancellation to the Department of Labor and Employment.

02:29We can set implementation dates even after the October 15 deadline so they can implement their passports and they can get required clearances

02:42after the October 15 deadline to their companies if they will request it with PAG-COR.

02:50How did BI coordinate with other concerned agencies like PAG-COR and DOLE to facilitate the visa downgrading process?

03:02We are members of the inter-agency in the task force BOGO-CLOSURE and we are coordinating with these different agencies

03:12to clarify and unify the direction of all agencies.

03:18In the past, the agencies helped each other and the procedure was clear to them so it can be relayed clearly to the companies of PAG-COR.

03:31This inter-agency, not only in the regulation, they are talking to each other.

03:36It is punitive if there are still foreign nationals who will remain here after the December 31 deadline for them to depart the country.

03:46Then there is a harmonious action of the inter-agency in addressing those violators.

03:54At the moment, how many foreign workers have filed for visa downgrading for them?

04:03In our last report, more than 12,000 have filed for downgrading, for voluntary downgrading.

04:11This Sunday, tomorrow, we will close our tally. Hopefully, the number of voluntary downgraders will increase.

04:23According to our statistics, many have left the country and have left the country for good.

04:30So we will be closing the tally of that as soon as possible so we can see the figures of how many are left here.

04:38We will monitor that up until the end of the year.

04:41We will monitor that number up until the end of the year that they have left the country.

04:47Ma'am Dana, how is the BI encouraging other foreign workers in this process?

04:53Well, we make sure that our process of downgrading is expedited.

05:01At the same time, we are encouraging the companies to avail the services of the Bureau and the inter-agency to have implementation days for them

05:12once the visa has been downgraded.

05:15We may go to your companies as requested through PAG-COR to implement so that their employees in the thousands, maybe in the offices of the BI,

05:28but we can go there so that the implementation of downgrading will not take a long time.

05:35We know that these companies, there might be hundreds or thousands at a given time to implement their downgrading.

05:44That's why we want, aside from the number of people going to our offices,

05:51to make sure that the downgrading of their passports will be implemented immediately so that they can get appropriate payments.

06:00So apart from BI, in our meeting with the inter-agency, DOLE has also committed to be there to receive alien employment permits that will be surrendered to them for cancellation.

06:13We will provide all the services to the legal companies that are downgrading their visas and are legally leaving the country.

06:24We hope those who have second thoughts of illegally, wanting to illegally stay here in the Philippines,

06:32please reconsider because the legal companies that are leaving the country will not be blacklisted.

06:38Instead, we'll still have the opportunity to come back to the Philippines for legal reasons.

06:43If they have legal, legitimate reasons to go back to the country, then they may do so because they have legally followed our laws and our policies.

06:52But those who will be left behind, like I said earlier, who are stubborn and do not follow the policies of our government,

07:01they will be deported and will be blacklisted.

07:05Ma'am, in the pictures that we are showing, I saw earlier that one of them is pregnant and the other one is carrying a baby.

07:13So if that's the case, have the documents of the child that was born here in the Philippines been processed properly?

07:21If there is a foreign national here who is a minor, they are not deported.

07:26If the parent is with the child, they are only leaving the country.

07:29If the parent is the one being deported, but the minor subject is not deported, we will not blacklist the minor.

07:41If there are such incidents, because there really is historically, we encounter such incidents,

07:49we make sure that the appropriate arrangements are given so that it will not be difficult for the parent to leave the country with the minor child.

08:02Okay. In other talks, the GMA News Desk has a question.

08:08This is the question. Representative Dan Fernandez said that Mila Roque, the wife of Attorney Harry Roque, is already in Singapore.

08:18Is there information from the DI about this?

08:22Yes. According to our records, we also submitted this to our lawmakers.

08:28Ms. Mila Roque is out of the country since September 3.

08:33Her lookout bulletin was issued on September 16. She is not in the country at the moment.

08:40While former spokesperson Harry Roque has no recent departure as per our records.

08:49She has an immigration lookout bulletin which was issued on August 6.

08:54There is a question from Louisa Arispe of PTV.

08:58What will be the action of the BI if a Chinese national's 9G visa is not arranged?

09:06If this foreign national, for example, is working in an online gaming company and they are included in the requirements of leaving the country,

09:16and he did not upgrade his visa, for example, he stayed here and he wants to work in another company, he stayed here without processing his documents and leaving the country,

09:30then he will be subjected to deportation proceedings.

09:33He will be deported from the country and he will be blacklisted and he will not be allowed to enter the Philippines again.

09:42We have another question from Louisa Arispe.

09:45According to your monitoring, how many Chinese nationals have a 9G visa?

09:53According to the online gaming company, more than 50 percent have left or downgraded to foreign nationals in general.

10:03But majority of that are Chinese nationals.

10:06In the next few months, we will see their departure when they leave the country.

10:11Because now, they are given 59 days to go out of the country, to leave the country already.

10:17So, in the next few weeks, we will see the gradual departure of these foreign nationals.

10:24Thank you very much for your time, Dana Sandoval, the spokesperson of the Bureau of Immigration.

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