Do I Need a Round Trip Ticket for a Balikbayan Stamp?

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Here's a recent comment/question from a reader that is important enough, I think, to merit it’s own article here on the main site. Reason I think this should be highlighted is it points out again what I so frequently find that Filipinos and Former Filipinos seldom get much good information about their own rights and privileges here in the Philippines. I’m delighted to try to spread the news … so many of the questions and requests for help I get are sad, or have no good answer.  This … [Read more...]

Coming to the Philippines as a Balikbayan

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New readers will want to refer to my recently update article on Why I Left the Philippines. A reader, (thanks, Sam), left a couple great comments, full of questions that many people aside from him want to know, so  decided to make another article out of it. Also, in case anyone has been living under a rock, you already know that we have a new President-Elect here in the Philippines, Mr. "Noynoy" Aquino.  Many of the provisions we currently rely on under the Balik Bayan … [Read more...]