BI puts up 3 more offices for foreigners

MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is set to open new field and extension offices in three places in its bid to make services more accessible to foreigners in the Metro Manila and neighboring provinces. The BI said that the new extension offices would be put up in Pasay City and in the towns of Taytay, Rizal and Sta.Rosa, Laguna. BI commissioner Marcelino Libanan said Rizal and Laguna were chosen after the bureau recorded an upsurge of foreigners in the two provinces. He added that the new offices would enable tourists to extend their stay in the country without having to go through the hassle of going the bureau’s main office in Manila. The new immigration offices will open at the Neo Chinatown Mall located at the back of McDonald’s Restaurant along Diosdado Macapagal Avenue, Pasay City . The Pasay office will give its foreign customers, who are mostly Chinese tourists, easy access to the bureau’s services. It will be the second office in the city as a similar office was established at the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) along Roxas Blvd., also in Pasay. In Makati, the BI has an office at the Board of Investments (BOI) bldg. along Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. in Makati City. The Makati extension office was created to serve foreign investors, executives and expatriates in the country’s financial capital while the PEZA extension office serves mainly foreigners based in the various economic zones nationwide. - GMANews.TV