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00:00Yesterday, the Banyagang Pogo workers' deadline to downgrade their working visas to temporary visitor's visas has been extended.

00:07Now, all the Pogos in the country are being closed.

00:10We will now listen to Donna Sandoval, spokeswoman of the Bureau of Immigration.

00:15Donna, good morning.

00:17Good morning. Good morning, Igor.

00:19Yesterday, you said that 12,000 foreigners have downgraded their visas. Will this increase?

00:26It looks like it will increase, Igor.

00:28Maybe it will follow up to 13,000 or more.

00:32In the next few days, we will be closing that alley.

00:35Even those who have left the country, including those we are counting, have left and no plans of returning to the Philippines.

00:43What does it mean to downgrade their visas?

00:47When it comes to downgrade, essentially it looks like they are giving up their working visa.

00:51They are reverting to the basic visa, which is the temporary visitor's visa.

00:57With the temporary visitor's visa, they are given 59 days to wind down their affairs.

01:03They will be busy. They will know how to find a partner. That's what I always say.

01:09They will book flights to and from the country within that 59-day period.

01:15That 59-day period is not a pass for them to go on a vacation or continue working in their companies.

01:23It's really for winding down and leaving the country.

01:27What if instead of downgrading their visas, they just hide it and work illegally in other companies?

01:34Will the B.I. still monitor them?

01:37Yes, Igor. The companies there are also liable if they don't downgrade their visas

01:42because it's the company who is responsible for that because that is the petitioner of their visa.

01:49Then they may be held liable. We can consider that as harboring Indian aliens.

01:55That's why it's the responsibility also of the company to ensure that their employees comply with immigration laws.

02:04The foreign nationals who decide to leave, hide and work illegally, they will undergo deportation proceedings and blacklisting.

02:15Donna, there's information from PAOK that those who came from the big POGO established their own small POGO hub and the others are Filipino-Paraguayan operators.

02:27Yes, that's our worry. When it closed, many people went underground. It looks like there are people who went underground and want to transfer their operations.

02:37The bad news is that our fellow countrymen have been using this opportunity to gain.

02:43That's why what was mentioned earlier in the soundbite of PAOK, we should not let our offers be exposed because instead of big companies now,

02:55they are using smaller resorts and hidden areas, residential areas to hide their operations.

03:04That's why we are also calling on local government units to be strict in giving permits to the companies that are established in their areas.

03:16Let's move to another issue. The wife of the former presidential spokesperson, Harry Roque, Myla, is still in Singapore until now.

03:24How did this come out that the Quad Committee has a warrant? Is that allowed?

03:31She left as early as September 3 before anything else. Her lookout bulletin was issued September 16 already.

03:41She left early and has no records of returning since that day.

03:48Is she still in Singapore?

03:50So far, that's the information we got. But we are closely monitoring the movements.

03:57What about Atty. Harry Roque?

04:00As per our record, he has no recent departure. He was also included in the immigration lookout bulletin since August 6.

04:09Okay. So he cannot leave the Philippines.

04:12If he has no hold departure order, no warrant of arrest, then he may leave the country.

04:21We are closely monitoring his travel and we will inform, for example, if we can intercept him in Paliparan,

04:28we will inform the appropriate authorities to check if there is a recently or freshly issued warrant of arrest or hold departure order against him.

04:35Thank you very much VI spokesperson Donna Sandoval. Be careful.

04:39Thank you. Good morning.

04:50Thank you very much.

05:20Thank you very much.

05:22Thank you very much.

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Panayam kay Dana Sandoval, spokesperson, Bureau of Immigration | Unang Balita

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