A total of 668 foreigners were barred from entering the Philippines in the months of January-July this year  according to the Bureau of Immigration in an article I read recently on the website Philippine-Portal. Among the countries these foreigners came from are the United States, Korea, China, Japan, India, Taiwan Singapore, Malaysia, Britain, and Australia.

BI Commissioner Nonoy Libanan was pleased that the bureau’s immigration officers are doing a good job of turning away undesirable aliens at the port of entry and stressed the importance of them not relaxing their guard especially in these times.

The article and news release pointed out that most of the excluded aliens were intercepted at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) but some were barred from other ports in the Philippines such as Cebu, Clark, and Davao.

The article goes on to explain the reasons and the purpose of these people being barred and the importance of the Philippines and other countries in being vigilant on who is allowed to enter their countries at the borders. We can only hope that other countries will be as trained and skilled at reading traveling documents and picking out suspicious characters as the Philippines is. And to the Americans who plan to move to the Philippines this is also a good sign that we can feel safer. To read the full article from Philippine –Portal please click here.

Retire Like a King and do it on a reasonable budget! That’s right, even if you have to retire on a fixed (and limited) budget, you can do so while still maintaining a good life! You can do it in the Philippines! Bob Martin is an American who is also a long term resident of the Philippines! Bob moved here when he was just 38 years old, and he knows the ins and outs of living in the Philippines.