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Saturday, January 14, 2006
Immigration's collections in 2005 increases
THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) based in Dagupan City has registered P8.4 million in collections for 2005, an increase of P2,151,380 over last year's P6,322,680 by the field office.
Alien Control Officer Alberto S. Garcia said the 34.03 percent increase in collections came from Filipino-Americans (Fil-Ams) transacting business with the office for visa extension, annual reporting fee, re-entry and exit charges, and change of status from temporary to permanent residency.
Fil-Ams were followed by Indians, Americans, Europeans, Koreans, Chinese and Middle Eastern nationals in terms of volume of transactions with the BI.
Garcia said most Fil-Ams in Pangasinan hail from the town of Binalonan, the maternal hometown of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
He said the BI-Dagupan Office averaged P600,000 monthly in collections, all of which were regularly remitted to the BI Central Office throughout the year.
Garcia said since the decentralization of operations of the immigration bureau during the stint of former BI commissioner Rufus Rodriguez, the BI Provincial Office based at the Dagupan City Astrodome has zoomed up from a zero-income unit to multi-million revenue-earning office in just five years of operation.
The BI official thanked BI Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. for consistent support to the operations of the BI-Dagupan Office contributing to a highly motivated and efficient field workforce. Three main categories make up the collections of the BI-Dagupan: general fund, legal research fee and express lane fee.
In 2005, the three areas posted increases of P1,695,670 (33.75 percent), P24,710 (28.83 percent) and P431,000 (35.52 percent), respectively, for the year's increase of P2,151,380. (Pangasinan Star/Sunnex)
(January 7, 2006 issue)
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