Today, I write a sequel to the last topic "Philippines' visa". Especially, I give this information to a person who stays in the Philippines and has a tourst Visa or is on SSP holder. If this is wrong, I'll correct it again. This is the present situation(Oct 2006),.,.,.
*About visa extension * This is very easy. If you have time to extend your visa in the Philippines, you can do it. I don't recommend that you go to Manila's or famous city's immigration to extend your visa. These are very crowded. I recommend that you go to a local city. (Baguio-Processing time is 10-25mins, Dagupan-Time is 15mins)
If you want to finish your visa extension the same day, you can ,., but you have to pay P500.
************************************************** Visa-exempt term is 21days(Japanese, Korean etc...) First visa extension is 38days (This means that you extended your visa 2months after you enter in the Philippines.) **************************************************
In Baguio's case,(I don't know the other cities) ”Japanese can extend their visa by 1 or 2 months within a year”
”Korean can extend their visa by 1 month within a year, -but they can't stay here over 6 months. If they want to extend, -they can do it by going to the other immigration”
*******To a person who wants to stay here for more than 2 months******* ACR(P1000):(Alien Certificate of Registration) ECC(P700):(Emmigration Clearance Certificate)
You need them , but when you pay visa extension fee to the immigration, automatically you must pay both.(They will collect it obligatorily/compulsarily) So you don't need to have any anxieties.
*******To a person who wants to stay here for more than 6 months*******
You need ACR and ECC again, but usually the immigration officer doesn't request these fees. You have it deliberately.
1-ACR(P???): You have to register your fingerprints to the receiving officer.
This!
You've already paid ACR fee. (you need it once but you need the document with fingerprint) When you request this, maybe you pay small money.
Korean who stayed this house before had this.....
2-ECC(P700):(Emmigration Clearance Certificate)
If you didn't pay the second ECC, when you go back to your country, the officer requests it. So, you should pay that time...
********************************* When you go out from this country ********************************* You need P550 as airport fee. If you don't have ECC, they request ECC fee that time...... So when you go out, you should have around P1500,.,.^^