⌛ to stay foot in PI for good ?

[B]Rhoody, can you ask your family, friends and ex-s in Germany to come over in Dumaguete and take over that Robinson Mall ? you they needed are;
cook , driver, cleaner , 2 security guard, and 5 salegirls. There , you can take over and finish that Robinson mall.[/B]
BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION: INDEFINITE VISA TO FOREIGN INVESTORS

MANILA, MARCH 23, 2009 (STAR) By Helen Flores Updated - The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has started implementing a program that provides indefinite visa to foreign investors and businessmen who employ at least 10 Filipino workers as part of the government’s job-generation strategy. In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said the BI is now accepting petitions for the issuance of a Special Visa for Employment Generation (SVEG) to qualified foreigners as the rules and regulations for the implementation of the scheme took effect last March 9.

Libanan said a “one-stop shop” has been created in the bureau to receive, screen and process all applications for SVEG before these are forwarded to the Board of Commissioners for approval.

SVEG allows its foreign holder, who is engaged in a viable and commercial enterprise, to stay in the Philippines indefinitely so long as he or she employs 10 or more Filipinos, the immigration bureau said.

Qualified foreigners, who are granted the SVEG, shall be considered special non-immigrants with multiple entry privileges and conditional extended stay, without need of prior departure from the Philippines.

Earlier, Libanan issued a memorandum circular prescribing the rules for issuing the SVEG which was launched pursuant to Executive Order 758 signed by President Arroyo on Nov. 17 last year.

The privilege of the EO may extend to the qualified foreigner’s spouse and dependent unmarried children below 18 years of age whether legitimate, illegitimate or adopted.

BI legal officer Cris Villalobos, who was named head of the one-stop shop, said a qualified SVEG applicant shall initially be issued a probationary one-year visa before he could be given an indefinite visa.

Villalobos said an applicant shall pay an application fee of P3,520 and P6,000 upon implementation of the visa.

He added that the visa holder shall also be required to secure an “I-Card” for which he shall be charged $50 and express lane fee of P500.

The rules provide that the SVEG shall be issued to a foreigner with controlling interest in a company or entity engaged in a business activity, enterprise or industry that employs at least 10 full-time and regular Filipino workers on a long-term basis in the Philippines.

The Filipino workers must be employed either for managerial, executive, professional, technical, skilled, or unskilled positions.

The BI said an applicant shall submit a notarized letter-request; copy of passport with updated stay; the company’s articles of incorporation, general information sheet; proof of the applicant’s investment; and clearances from the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency and BI.

When necessary, the applicant shall submit an alien employment permit (AEP) from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) which shall issue a certification that the foreigner employs at least 10 Filipinos.

Moreover, the applicant shall certify that he or she maintains a lawful immigration status in the Philippines; engaged in a viable and sustainable business; exercises managerial acts with authority to employ, promote and dismiss employees; and evinces a genuine intention to indefinitely remain in the country.

Proofs must also be attached to the application showing that Filipinos employed by the applicant have been given benefits under the labor code such as social security, Philhealth and Pag-Ibig Fund coverage.

The SVEG holder must “continually” meet all requirements to enjoy an indefinite visa, which will be monitored by the Immigration Commissioner.

Grounds for SVEG revocation include the holder’s failure to comply with any of the requirements; if the SVEG was obtained through fraud or willful misrepresentation of material facts; criminal conviction; and findings by a “competent authority” that the holder poses a risk to national security.

Under EO 758, foreigners with revoked SVEGs due to reasons other than criminal conviction, will be deported through summary proceedings; those with criminal convictions will be deported after they have served their sentence.


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No doubt these visas will be issued with a blistering speed which is infinitely greater than the glacial progress of some other processes. I would regard the multiple conditions described above with a particularly jaundiced eye, regarding their impact on "process".

As I currently have an application "in the queue", it would not be politick for me to comment further in an open forum.

 

hi davfitz. it would be useful to some people if you could expand. are u applying for the new exemption and what are your experiences. also from which admin office(duma?) as they differ so much

 

Where do I apply? I have at least 10 relatives that I'm supporting,
isn't that the same as employing?

 

which ?

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........“one-stop shop”

 

possibly

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....i thinking that too...:D


EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 758

PRESCRIBING GUIDELINES FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL VISA TO NON-IMMIGRANT FOR
EMPLOYMENT GENERATION

WHEREAS, there are foreigners who want to maintain a lawful presence in the Philippines by actually directly or exclusively engaging in lawful, viable, and sustainable trade, business, industry, or activity offering local employment;
WHEREAS, according to the April 2008 survey of the National Statistics Office (NSO), there are 2.9
million Filipinos who are currently unemployed;

WHEREAS, creation of job opportunities for the Filipino is one of the advocacies of the Arroyo
Administration under its 10-point Agenda;

WHEREAS, Commonwealth Act (CA) No. 613, otherwise known as the Philippine Immigration Act of
1940, as amended, authorizes the President, when public interest so warrants, to admit as non-
immigrants, foreigners not otherwise provided for by the Act, who are coming for a temporary period only, under such conditions as may prescribed;

WHEREAS, public interest, particularly on an aspect of employment generation for Filipinos warrants the admission of these foreigners as special non-immigrants under Section 47 (a)(2) of CA No. 613, as amended;

NOW, THEREFORE, I GLORIA MACAPAGAL – ARROYO, President of the Republic of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order: SECTION 1. Special Visa for Employment Generation (SVEG). – The SVEG is a special visa issued to
a qualified non-immigrant foreigner who shall actually employ at least ten (10) Filipinos in a lawful and sustainable enterprise, trade or industry. Qualified foreigners who are granted the SVEG shall be considered special non-immigrants with multiply entry privileges and conditional extended stay, without need of prior departure from the Philippines.

The privileges of this Executive Order may extend to the qualified foreigner’s spouse and dependent unmarried child/children below eighteen (18) years of age whether legitimate, illegitimate or adopted.