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  1. Dave & Imp

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    UPDATE: I WENT IN TO PICK UP MY PASSPORT THIS AFTERNOON... THE LADY REMEMBERED ME, AND SAID SHE HAD A PHONE CALL FROM MANILA AND WE CAN DO IT ALL IN CEBU AGAIN! (She apologized because she had already sent one man to Manila, besides telling me.)

    There is no longer (today anyway) any need to go to Manila for the transfer of information from you old passport to you new. I would suggest you take both with you to Cebu.

    Tomorrow is another day, so be ready for another directive... that is the way it is here. At least this one got reversed quickly.
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    Dave & Imp, Apr 21, 2016
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    Well for me it is good if I can go to Manila ... I went to Cebu last time and I think most of us fly out of Manila anyhow...??.....Anyway...If your going to have to leave your going to have a exit clearance stamped in your passport...(which for the life of me I do not understand) but that is the rule here
     
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    LENNY, Apr 19, 2016
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    How did they know about your entry/exit stamps in your old passport? You didn't go out and volunteer any information to them did ya? :wink:

    Note: I don't ask the BoI anything about my visa or the requirements. I go in and ask for exactly what I need and that's it. Two extensions ago they told me about the exit clearance requirement since I had hit the 6 month mark. I said "Thanks" and left without asking or volunteering any additional information. If I have questions about how something works or where to pay the last person I ask will be anyone working at an immigration office. I really don't want them looking into my status and coming up with some crazy new rule on the spot that can't be verified anywhere online and putting something other than a visa stamp in my passport. (One thing I don't like about immigration here is how they treat my passport as their personal notebook; putting stamps that are not visas, stapling papers to my passport (ARP), writing notes in it, etc etc.....I will remove anything from my passport that is not directly related to a visa prior to going through immigration on my exit.)
     
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    Rye83, Apr 19, 2016
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  4. Dave & Imp

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    I went to BI for an extension today. I also have to do the in-n-out travel trip after three years this coming September. My US passport was renewed in December... OK.. here is the new hoop BI decide I should jump through with their new directive of last week...

    I must now visit the Manila BI office before leaving the country. Why?

    The last time I left the county three years ago my exit and entry was stamped in my old passport, so now I have to go the Manila to have that information transferred to my new passport.... NO..NO.. I can not go to Cebu, must be Manila BI. So everyone who has gotten a new passport since they had the entry and exit stamped from their last departure from the country, has to go to Manila and get information transferred to their new passport if this directive stands. (Sooner or later almost everyone will have to have this done.)

    It really is "More Fun in the Philippines" trying to figure out who is benefiting from these types of new directives.... the travel industry (fares), taxis (fares), hotels (manila overnights), the bar girls of Manila (more foreigners for the short term), The short term hotels, the "new employees" in Manila who must be hired to complete this new task...WHO.. WHO..WHO... benefited from this directive to get foreigners to spend more money at the direction of the government here? There has to be someone getting something economic benefit out of this new directive.....

    (Has anyone else been told this information, as I find it hard to believe that anything like this nuisance trip to Manila could be real. I am hoping that this directive will be dropped after elections, but like the extra 100 P they charge for using a "real" paper stamp instead of an ink rubber stamp on your passport for your extensions it may stand, as another way to collect money from foreigners.)
     
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    Dave & Imp, Apr 19, 2016
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