A few weeks ago I posted something I found on the website of the Immigration Office in the Philippines. Read this article about the annual report for foreigners with ACR Card. After reading this message on the website I asked, through email, for more information. And today I received an email back from them: Please(…)
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annual report for foreigners in the Philippines
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has launched a project that will enable foreigners to make their annual report and register with the agency without personally appearing at the BI headquarters in Intramuros, Manila. Instead, teams of BI personnel will be deployed in the field and dispatch to places where the foreigners are based, such as(…)
bank account in the Philippines
On several websites and forums I have read that it is difficult for foreigners to open a bank account in their name in the Philippines. Today I applied for one and there was no problem in getting one. I went to BDO near our house. I was asked to show two ID’s and I needed(…)
filipino drivers license, I’ve got it
Foreign drivers licenses are valid until the 90th day of arrival in the Philippines. After these three months, a foreigner should have a Philippine drivers license. The problem is how to get one. LTO, the Philippine department for issuing drivers licenses, has a lot of offices in the country. From one of the local offices(…)