A sooner and extra handy immigration process through e-Travel System can be carried out by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) beginning April 15.
In a press launch, BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco stated the e-Travel System is a single knowledge assortment platform for arriving and departing passengers. It goals to ascertain an built-in border management, well being surveillance, and financial knowledge evaluation.
“All passengers and crew members arriving into the Philippines are required to register through etravel.gov.ph not earlier than 72 hours from their intended arrival,” BI stated.
It added that those that will fail to take action could also be assisted by airline employees upon their arrival and earlier than evaluation by the Bureau of Quarantine (BOQ).
As a alternative of the paper-based departure playing cards, solely outbound Filipino passengers are required to register within the e-Travel System 72 hours however not lower than three hours from their scheduled departure from the Philippines.
Departing Filipino passengers who will fail to register or replace their e-Travel report could do that earlier than present process immigration inspection or could fill out departure playing cards that are available contained in the immigration space.
“The paper-based arrival and departure cards can only be used by passengers who are incapable of e-Travel registration and in the event that the e-Travel site is inaccessible,” said Tansingco.
He then clarified that registering and updating in the e-Travel portal is free of charge and fake sites who charge may be reported to the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC).
“Not solely does this pace up immigration clearance, this initiative additionally ensures interoperability amongst border administration businesses, and saves authorities assets,” he added.
The system is an initiative of a sub-technical working group of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) chaired by the BI. It is a joint challenge of the company with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the Department of Tourism (DOT), the Bureau of Quarantine (BOQ), the Bureau of Customs (BOC), the Department of Health (DOH), the Department of Transportation (DOTr), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the National Privacy Commission (NPC).
The platform was initially launched in December and initially rolled out on the arrival space and was expanded to cowl departing vacationers.—Sherylin Untalan/AOL, GMA Integrated News
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