Visa Question Best Posts in Thread: Annual BI Update

The requirement today were,
ACR card plus clear copy of front and back
Passport plus clear copy of BIO page plus last entry page;
Last years O.R plus clear copy
Fee 310 peso
They then checked the computer to establish correct registration.

Returned all original documents and given a claim slip to return after 5 days to get O.R for 2019. took about 10 minutes plus around 25 minutes in the que

 

Sedona i think you are correct. Having all the copies is for their convenience.
Whenever I get a new passport I always have it re stamped. I don't know what problems a person would encounter trying to re-enter the country without one. I'm not adventurous and don't want to find out.
One guy had his ACRI Card receipt but didn't have his card yet because it had gone astray. He got fairly gruff with the girl and she told him she needed to see the card or he would be fined. She told him she didn't know where his card was and didn't care. Go to Manila and sort it out yourself.
My ACRI card went astray, my wife asked the Dumaguete office to please help her find it. In a matter of minutes they told her the courier company, waybill number and who signed for it. Moral of the story, if you get grumpy with the BI they can give you a reason to be grumpy.

edited some of the spelling mistakes

 

They didn’t hold my passport this year only my I-card

 

I have the standard 13A visa
Only visa stamp was from 18 years ago and when that passport was renewed it was never required to have a new visa stamp in new and subsequent passports

 

Just one more thing to add, you need 3 pages copied from your passport: The bio page, the page with last entry stamp, and the visa page. When we went in we got number 22, and they were just on number 4 at the time, but it went pretty fast and we were out in under an hour.

 

Yes can be done any time in the first 90 days of the year

 

Ahh Thanks.... I was beginning to think I had memory lapses.. I am still on tourist visa so I am good... whew... LOL

 

They didn't hold my passport or I-card, just gave me a claim slip to come back in a few days to pick up my receipt.

 

Yes, this is good to know. My passport is several years away from needing renewal so I had never thought about the visa stamp that is in my passport. But, in terms of what you need to bring with you when you go in for reporting ... I will say that IF your passport does have a visa stamp page in it then they are going to ask you for a photocopy of that page (I know because this is what they did for me). So, you should check your passport, and if there is a visa stamp page in it, then be sure to bring a copy of that page with you and it will save you time when you are there.

What amazed me was that there are signs all over the place in the DI office (a sign on the window, a sign on the door, one behind the desk) that give a list of all of the copies that you need to present. I saw so many people who would sit there in the waiting area for half and hour and then go up to the desk when their number was called and say "I'm here for my annual report" and the girl would ask for the copies and they looked confused and surprised -- then she would point to the signs with the list of copies they needed, and then they would get up and go to start making their copies so they could come back and start over again.