Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla has ordered the Bureau of Immigration (BI) to grant employment visas only to corporations registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
司法部长 Jesus Crispin C. Remulla 已命令移民局 (BI) 仅向在证券交易委员会 (SEC) 注册的公司发放就业签证。
Remulla said he issued the directive based on "the proliferation of visas issued to fake corporations and sole proprietorships."
雷穆拉表示，他发布该指令的原因是“向假公司和独资企业发放的签证数量激增”。
During a press briefing on Tuesday, Jan. 16, Remulla said: “As a matter of policy, I’m asking the BI not to grant anymore visas to sole proprietorships but only to corporations that have the stamp of approval of the SEC."
He explained: “Meron kaming finding na maraming corporations (we have information that many corporations) that were petitioning 9G visas are fake corporations or non-entities which the law department of BI allowed."
“We’re talking about more than 500 corporations and thousands and thousands of visas issued with the petitions of these corporations which have been presumed validated by the legal department and the visa issuing authority of the BI," Remulla who noted that many of the visas were used to get into Philippine Offhsore Gaming Operators (POGOs).
He lamented that “the corporations were accepted hook, line and sinker without any validation.”
他感叹道，“这些公司在没有经过任何验证的情况下就被接受了。”
“It is an affront to our soveriegnty that these people have been issuing all of these to them,” he stressed.
他强调说：“这些人向他们发放所有这些东西是对我们主权的侮辱。”
He expressed suspicion that those involved in issuing the visas were “probably in cahoots because you are talking about due diligence as a matter of government policy in every transaction.”
他怀疑那些参与签发签证的人“可能是串通一气，因为你在每笔交易中都将尽职调查视为政府政策的问题”。
He warned: “It’s just the tip of the iceberg."
他警告说：“这只是冰山一角。”
“I would be asking for a fuller investigation and that’s what we discussed yesterday (Jan. 15),” he said. assured Remulla who wanted to trace the visa issuances as far back as five years ago.
He recalled that he had previously asked Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco to reorganize the BI’s visa processing group without the involvement of the legal office.
他回忆说，他此前曾要求移民局局长诺曼·坦辛科在没有法律办公室参与的情况下重组移民局的签证处理小组。
However, Remulla lamented that the BI has been moving “very slow” do to it.
然而，雷穆拉感叹称，移民局对此的行动“非常缓慢”。
He recounted that he received information about the anomaly back in August and had it validated. Back in October, he said he revealed about the issuance of the visas based on the request of fake corporations.