[LinP3] Re: No more balikbayan visas?

This rings of fabrication and misleading information, which is not
unusual.

Larry in Dumaguete

--- In LivingInThePhilippines3@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Robertson"
<tcrephrata@...> wrote:
>
> My wife was told by her lawyer who knows someone on the inside from
> the Bureau of Immigration, that they will no longer be issuing
> balikbayan visas from December 2007 onwards. Has anyone of you
> seeking a balikbayan stamp recently encountered a problem upon
arrival
> at the airport?
>
> My wife, who was born in the US but with Filipino parentage, is
having
> trouble renewing her old Filipino passport(obtained when she was 2
> years old). Apparently, there is no record of her birth in the
> National Statistics Office here. This means that the Philippine
> consulate in New York most likely lost their 1960s records. We
hired a
> lawyer to follow up her papers in the Department of Foreign
Affairs.
> Almost a year has gone and still no progress.
>
> Thus, we have to renew our balikbayan visas soon. If this piece of
> news is true, then we have to obtain tourist visas, pay fees etc..
> Does anyone have any news?
>

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