yearly icr card renewal

Malmoman,
This is GR8 news! I sure hope you are correct! As I mentioned in my original question, I had to go to Cebu early last year (2013) to renew my ACR I card. They said the the manila pc didn't show any payments - so the Cebu office called DUMAGUTE and checked...Dumaguete told them that yes, we had paid annualy and sent cebu faxed copies of our official receipts.
So it would seem my file SHOULD now be updated to reflect all previous payments, including 2013 - which means, if I understand you advise correctly, I CAN file at my Dumaguete office. Does this sound right to you?
Thank you very much for your information. Big help!! Kindly take a second to tell me if I have understood your comment correctly. Thanks again.
Don 'litenup'
Dumaguete area

 

If Dumaguete BOI find your updated records in their system, they will let you renew in their office. Only people with updated records can renew. Remember that Dumaguete BOI is not connected with the main system in Manila. Their records only shows who is updated or not.
Above info is from officers in both Cebu and IloiIo. I was also told that the new BOI commissioner is implementing a fully computerized system in 2014.

 

So I went to DGTE BI this morning. Not surprisingly, I was told, like Tim and others, that I will have to go to Cebu or Manila to pay my annual permanent visa fee. The DGTE BI Office will only extend tourist visas. Their excuse is they were on a manual system before so the central computer system has no record of previous payment. They did give me a copy of their record with my previous payments to show Cebu when I go there. It is what it is….

 

Excuses Excuses!

It would be interesting to know, if anyone, has been to Cebu to do this years reporting and learn what, if any, the difficulties of this issue were.
To me, as this is a Yearly reporting, Dumaguete have had a Year nearly, to report manually, all the Reporting Done in the field office (Fax or Snail mail)

What happens if Cebu say the same thing, Sorry but you do not show up on the main Frame?

One has to wonder, How many other Years have never, been Reported.

Are they going to believe, the OR's from Dumaguete office? Maybe a Trip to Manila? (Just to be told the same thing)

Sorry Folks but this stinks.

 

A report from Cebu;


"Posted 16 January 2014 - 06:51 PM

Went to the BI (Mandaue) this morning to complete annual report. Had already filled in the application(at home) and had in hand 2x2 photograph.



Signed in at BI at 11am and everything completed and back outside at 11.20am no hassle whatsoever.



Go to 1st floor and hand in your ACR with application form, the person behind the counter checks ACR and completed form.



When you receive them both back, go round the corner where the guy is sitting at the desk...just opposite him there is a table for you to take L&R finger prints (yourself).



Join the queue to see the the guy at the desk.........he will check your form and if you have filled it correctly stamps it and that's it.



Go the cashier and pay 310 pesos.



Total including standing in queues was about 10 mins but after paying we chatted with some friends inside for about 10 mins.



We had parked where the car wash is and we had to wait for them to finish washing the car! "


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Larry

 

BUT BUT was this OP from Dumaguete??

It seems Field office Reporting, is the Problem
If they Renewed last year in CEBU/MANILA they are on the System.

I still think, we need a report of someone from Dumaguete renewing

 

Seems the problem might be something like they may be on the central system but they will not pay a 400p a day data entry clerk to update our records from last hear when a foreigner can pay X times that to travel to Cebu to update his permanent visa which cost X times the tourist visa they are processing in Dgte. Add to the “more fun in the Philippines” category. Gotta love it.

 

There is no logical thinking, with problem anticipation and solving.

Pat you are using old world thinking, or should I say "previous country" thinking, a world of logical thinking, with problem anticipation and solving. There is little logical thinking in the Philippines. If there was logical thinking in the Philippines, I would not be sitting in Bacong without electricity and water for the previous 38 of 50 hours because Bamboo fell on some electrical lines in Valencia. O-|
As far the category of being able to deliver electricity at reasonable rates, the only reason the Philippines is a 3rd world country is because there is no listing for 4th world countries. Without a reasonable electrical supply system there will only be a slow growing industrial base here.

 

Wrong Dave, I have a clear vision how things work here with low-level expectations, having lived in the PI since 2007, so unlike many others I don’t go too far off my rocker when things go crazy. Really? So what caused my stroke? lol

 

Thanks for the new sig Dave!