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Request of Lifting Order for Blacklist

Requested from BI by A. Gallo at 11:25 AM on Apr 02, 2022.
Purpose: Stay with the family here in the Philippines
Date of Coverage: 08/09/1998 - 12/21/2000
Tracking no: #BI-335051248837

Gallo 11:25 AM, Apr 02, 2022 

Hi, good day!

We would like to request for lifting the black list name of my father in the immigration. Reason for his overstaying before was a voluntary deport to go back to the US. Now he wants to go back here in the Philippines to stay with us, his family. We would like to have his name lifted in the list the soonest so he can be cleared already.

Would appreciate your assistance for our concern, sincerest thanks :)

-Anna Gallo


April 4, 2022

Dear Anna Marie,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Apr 02, 2022 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your request

You asked for Request of Lifting Order for Blacklist.

Response to your request

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we would need for your father to authorize someone to personally file your request to the BI Main office if he wanted to lift his Blacklist Record in the existing derogatory record in the Bureau. Because Derogatory Record consists of personal information and it is protected under the Data Privacy Act of 2012, comprehensive and strict privacy legislation “to protect the fundamental human right of privacy, of communication while ensuring free flow of information to promote innovation and growth.” Thus, the Bureau could not disclose the subject information thru online. It can only be disclosed to the owner of the information, to third party if with Special Power of Attorney of the owner of the Data or with court order. 

Moreover, lifting of derogatory record must be filed personally to the BI Main Office by the owner of the information or the duly authorized representative (with Special Power of Attorney), which shall undergo assessment and evaluation of an assigned hearing officer subject to the final approval/disapproval of the Bureau’s Commissioner.


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If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to the BI Commissioner, JAIME H. MORENTE, Bureau of Immigration, Magallanes Drive, Intramuros, Manila. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).

Thank you.

Respectfully,
BI-National Operations Center (BINOC)
FOI Officer

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