The Bureau of Immigration rescued a Filipina who was about to be a victim of a “mail-order bride” scheme, the BI said yesterday.
The BI’s immigration protection and border enforcement section said the Filipina was about to leave for Fujian, China with a Chinese man, allegedly her husband, on April 8.MANILA, Philippines —
Though the two presented a marriage certificate showing they were married in 2019, immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 doubted the Filipina’s statements due to the inconsistencies between her statements and the documents she presented. “This is yet again another case of the mail-order bride scheme wherein women are promised a better life abroad but are made to work as domestic workers with little to no salaries,” BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said.GCash lending arm Fuse empowers underbanked Filipinos with P118 billion loans disbursedHOKA opens two new stores as running gains popularity among FilipinosThree police personnel who were apprehended for using the EDSA busway last week were relieved from their posts, an official..
Rights group Karapatan yesterday called for an end to the killing of farmers in Masbate, which it blamed on the government’s...
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