The Philippine Bureau of Immigration has recently strengthened its deportation policy, explicitly requiring deportees to take direct flights back to their country of origin, and forbidding entry by circumventing through transit flights, to prevent some foreigners from evading deportation procedures and re-entering the Philippines.
According to immigration officials, there have been recent cases where deportees successfully fled to Cambodia during a transit in Kuala Lumpur, allegedly attempting to change their identity and return to the Philippines. To prevent such incidents, the Philippine government has decided to strictly control deportation routes to ensure that foreigners do not use transit to escape during the deportation process.
Under current Philippine law, foreigners can buy their own tickets to return home, but the immigration bureau has adjusted its policies, specifying that the government will designate return routes and, if necessary, even fund the tickets to expedite the deportation process. This measure aims to prevent some foreigners from delaying their deportation by exploiting legal loopholes to stay in the Philippines.
Furthermore, the immigration bureau pointed out that some detained foreigners deliberately delay their deportation by entering the Philippine judicial process to seek bail opportunities, thereby obtaining temporary freedom.
In response, the Executive Director of the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission, Zhang Qiaowei, warned: "Once they are bailed out, tracking their whereabouts will become extremely difficult. Therefore, if guilty, they should face the charges, and if innocent, they should return home immediately."
The Philippine government is accelerating the deportation process to ensure the effective implementation of national immigration policies and to combat those trying to evade deportation and illegally stay in the country.
