Visa overstay amnesty offered

I found this online today (Nov. 15, 2016) and it may be helpful for people that have overstayed their visa. The program is not yet implemented.
I'd send a friend to do business at the BI on your behalf if you are way out of date so no "problems" arise.

http://thephilippinestar.ph/article...roposes-amnesty-for-5-m-illegal-aliens/175106

 

The link doesn't seem to work, but I have friends that got screwed over and could use the info.

 

Correct it does not work.
It did work when I posted it, I checked. Beats me

 

I have been here longer than most and understand many others situation and not trying to talk bad, the friends I posted about came with enough cash to live and build a house and have a loving wife until their retirement income started. Something went wrong and the 3 I know had their wife bail out and left the country with the visa in hand that was provided by the man along with all the money leaving him dead broke. I agree she should not have had access to the bank account, but many of us were brought up to trust our loved ones and as we know now that can work in the right situation and crash and burn in others.
I'm not a man to be an expert on what others have done and don't jump in their face and call them stupid. I hope my post will be taken in the right way.

Anyway here is a link I found.
http://www.livinginthephilippines.com/live-and-retire/visa

 

I looked at your link and it said visas that are out of date more than two years can not avail of the amnesty program. Do you know when that document came out?
My link that is broken said the cost to fix an overdue visa was 25,000 peso per year which seems reasonable.
The newspaper article did not mention the 2 year limit. Details were a little sketchy.

 

The link worked for me, although I had to wait the 5 seconds it mentioned on the screen. I hope this helps some. Here is a copy paste of the article:

The Bureau of Immigration wants to grant amnesty to 500,000 illegal and undocumented aliens, BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said yesterday.

He said under the amnesty program, an illegal alien would have to pay P25,000 for each year they overstayed in the country.

Morente said the amnesty proposal is a win-win situation for the government and for the illegals since some of them are giving protection money to unscrupulous BI personnel and police officers.

“Right now, paying for their protection is costing them more. If these foreigners go through the process and pay their correct taxes to government they would have peace of mind... On the side of government, it will earn more revenue,” he said.

Morente hopes Malacañang would approve the amnesty proposal, which has been submitted to the Department of Justice.

Morente said about 500,000 foreigners – mostly Chinese, Indians and a few South Koreans – have been illegally staying and working in the country in the past number of years.

 

I was actually surprised to even see month/day. We can thank Google for that crap as they decided to penalize websites for 'older' dates so websites stopped dating things. Drives me crazy wanting the most current information on a subject but the sites have been Googleized so I don't know if I am wasting my time with 10 year old information or if it was updated yesterday. I would go on but just getting further off topic so I won't...

 

The information seems to be current, as I found another news website with pretty much the same story. As mentioned before, it says that the program is not yet implemented.
BI eyes another alien amnesty