Netizen submission:
There are many things I'm not used to encountering in the Philippines, but overall it's okay, the competition is indeed less than in China, and those difficult issues I used to see online.
Unexpectedly, today it was my turn. Yes, I came to the Philippines and was stopped at the Philippine airport. In the end, I was deported without paying the protection fee. The agency quoted too high at 1.8 million P, and the airport staff reported 700,000 P, but for someone doing white-collar work in the Philippines, I was reluctant to pay!
Is entering the Philippines not worth spending so much money? It's just going back to the country, but I was really disgusted, feeling discriminated against, like a criminal.
Imagine if a foreigner goes to China, not to mention not breaking the law, even if they did, they would still be treated with courtesy, right?
Moreover, I came here to spend money, making me feel like I have to commit a crime in your Philippines. What treasures do you have in the Philippines? Philippine public officials are the most corrupt and insatiable in the world, the most impolite public officials, and the Philippines is also the most unfriendly country to foreigners. I have written down my experiences from yesterday and today, fellow Chinese compatriots should take note, if not necessary, don't go to the Philippines before March next year.
First of all, if you go to the Philippines, you must first find someone to check the blacklist, usually around 2000 P, to ensure you are not on the blacklist. If you are, don't go.
Secondly, remember to protect your tourist and business visas (although protecting them doesn't do much good).
Being stopped at the airport falls into two scenarios:
The first is being stopped before passing through customs, which is more troublesome with TCEU, and if stopped, contact someone immediately to handle it (almost impossible to handle after more than an hour, and even if it can be handled, it costs 100-200 thousand R).
The second is being stopped by customs (as long as you are not blacklisted and have round-trip tickets, they generally won't stop you), and if stopped, it is also recommended to find someone to handle it immediately, usually 100-200 thousand P.
Since they stopped you, most reasons are useless. The types of people who are deported include those who are on their first or Nth tourist visa to the Philippines, those on their first or Nth business visa to the Philippines, those from other countries who are genuinely touring the Philippines, those who have or have not engaged in Pogo, those who are or are not on the blacklist, and those visiting girlfriends. Basically, no matter how you answer, it's the same, deportation, two days' time.
All kinds of situations I've heard about, the reasons for deportation are varied.
If it's really for tourism, it's advisable to tell them immediately that you want to return to your country to avoid being disgusted, and it's easy to be stopped probably like this:
1. Looking around after getting off the plane
2. Walking too slowly and falling behind
3. Having a Chinese face and other situations that make it easy to be stopped (most of the time it's for this reason)
After being stopped, they start asking you questions, answer all of them clearly (if you can't speak English, you're basically directly deported).
Even if you can, they probably won't let you in, but will take you to another person to continue questioning. After questioning, they take you to a small compartment next to customs to wait.
They say they will take your passport to check (actually, they are just preparing to issue a deportation order. As long as the passport is in their hands, even if you answer all questions correctly, they can make up any reason, but you can't not give them your passport). Generally, you sit and wait for half an hour to an hour (you must find someone to handle it before they issue the deportation order, otherwise it will be troublesome if the deportation order is issued, and it's difficult to handle if you lack the financial capability).
They just give you time to find someone to pay to handle it (it is said that TECU has the right to deport anyone without needing a reason).
There is someone watching you at the door of the small compartment, they won't touch you during the whole process, and you can use your phone. If you don't pay to handle it, then after waiting for more than half an hour, the deportation documents will be prepared.
At that time, someone from the flight will take the form and take you to the waiting room to wait for deportation, and at that time your passport is with the airline.
They take you to the waiting room for changing planes, which is actually a temporary placement for people who cannot enter the country. There are many African or Middle Eastern refugees here, their countries are in turmoil, there are no flights back or they are unwilling to go back, and they cannot enter the country. It is said that they don't need to pay to eat and live here, and they are almost all black people. The others are all Chinese (from China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam).
All the Chinese are waiting for deportation. Before December 2024, occasionally people waiting for deportation here need to pay a lodging fee of 1620 P per day. This fee is charged whether you stay in the room or not, and you have to pay when you leave, and they don't support you using Gcash and bank cards, only cash.
Starting from December 2024, the cost of detaining Chinese people has increased to 3360 P per day, and from the second day, it is calculated by the hour, 140 P per hour.
If it's not necessary to enter the Philippines, then when they take you to the waiting room, tell them you want to return to your country, the sooner the better. (Here's a tip, it's best to buy round-trip tickets from the same airline when going to the Philippines, because people who are refused entry and deported must return to the passport's country of origin, and must use the same airline.) If you bought a return ticket from the same airline, they will help you change it for free to the nearest flight you want to go back as soon as possible.
If it's not the same airline, you need to buy the nearest flight as soon as possible, tell them you want to go back, they will ask the passport's country of origin, and usually within half an hour they will tell you that you can buy a ticket, then hurry up and buy a ticket, this waiting room is a place to suffer, in China it's at most a 50 yuan small hotel.
In each room, put one or two beds, add a mat on the floor, they will arrange for 5 people to stay in one room (3360*5=16800 P). There is nothing in the room, but there is a power strip for charging, no bathroom, using a public bathroom, black people live in some of the rooms there, clothes are hung everywhere in the bathroom, a small room of 50 yuan a day charges 2100 yuan, so even if you don't spend money to get out, they can still make money. According to two days of observation, because the rooms are limited, they generally won't stop new people when the rooms are full.
When someone is about to leave, they will stop new people from coming in, they have a quota, someone specifically comes to count the number of people. When I returned to my country, four people were leaving, they just stopped four Chinese tourists from Thailand. It is understood that it was their first time to the Philippines, they had played in Thailand for a few days, originally planned to play in the Philippines for a few days then go to Singapore for a few days before returning to their country, the tickets were also bought and after chatting for a while, they really seemed like tourists.
I stayed in this disgusting place for a day, if you want to eat, you can ask those people to order takeout, and the same for exchanging money. Anyway, every day there is a group of Chinese people being refused entry and deported, so you don't have to worry about eating and various other issues, just that you can't wander around.
Another disgusting thing about the Philippines is that not only do they refuse entry and deport, but I heard they also put you on a blacklist. A buddy who came back with me kept saying, being deported from a country like the Philippines is really a disgrace.
That's all, to avoid encountering black agents and being blackmailed by Filipinos, I suggest all Chinese people not go to the Philippines, I suggest China no longer support any projects in the Philippines, and impose tariffs on the Philippines, reducing imports of Philippine fruits, letting lazy and greedy Filipinos quickly decline.
