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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.
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05:22Thank you very much.
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