When You Decide What Visa To Use, Decide by Facts, not “What Everyone Says”. One key issue often on foreigner expats already in the Philippines, and especially those planning to come to live in the Philippines, is the question of what residency visa to obtain, or what non-residency visa to use in order to stay […]
Tourist Visa
Want to understand the Philippines? Part 2
So lets go back to the average tourist that is coming over here. They check their normal sources: CNN US Embassy Website Travel.Gov BBC What do they hear? A lot of baloney! Stories about the Philippines tend to fall into several categories. Mindanao and the MILF fighters there vs the Govt Bombings (from long ago) […]
2013 Year End Bureau of Immigration Updates
Several important changes have take place in the Philippine Bureau of Immigration rules and procedures in recent months. Here’s an update covering some of the most important ones … in so far as I can verify things. It is important to note that I am an “unofficial source” and my information may not always be […]
Places To Go Near the Philippines
Many of our readers here are living in the Philippines on various permanent visas, so they never HAVE to leave the Philippines for periodic “visa runs”. Some, (like me), prefer living on the Balik Bayan Privilege Stamp (BB Visa) and making annual trips out of the country. I’m not advocating one plan over another, there […]
Watch what you say and do!
Over the years, I have told people, both through this site and also in person that you have to watch your actions here and watch what you say, because if you do or say the wrong thing it can get your deported. Usually people accepted the advice without question, but from time to time people […]
What Kinda Expat Are You?
Hey, Paul – You mentioned in an earlier post that you’re going back to the USA after tax “busy season” is over. You also mentioned that you’ll be back in the Philippines somewhere in the September/October time frame. I thought you lived here in the Philippines – what kind of expat are you? “What kind […]