Bureau of Immigration Caught Two Women In NAIA For Age Faking

Bureau of Immigration Caught Two Women In NAIA For Age Faking

BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) agents recently caught two women at the NAIA Terminal 2 for faking their age.

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According to Inquirer, Grifton Medina of the BI Port Operations Division said that the two women, still unidentified and aged 19 and 20, were caught on September 21 (Saturday).

The women were attempting to board a connecting flight from Dubai to Saudi Arabia.

Both women presented legitimate passports, visas, job contracts and overseas employment certificates. The only issue is the altered birth dates to make it sound and look like they were 26 years of age. The women eventually admitted their actual age upon interrogation.

As per the report, the women said that they were placed in a safe house in Paco, Manila for two months before they were booked for their flights.

They disclosed that they were oriented and taught by recruiters how to respond to questions from immigration officers, according to Timotea Barizo of the BI Travel Control and Enforcement Unit.

“We’ve heard this in the past, usually victims would be briefed a few days before their flight. But now they’re actually housed for months to train on how to evade immigration questioning,”

“The two victims admitted that their documents were given only prior to departure, and that they were told to open it only after check-in. This forces them to go on and comply with the scheme despite the discrepancy since they are already there,”

BI commissioner Jaime Morente further urged overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to be aware of such scheme and to transact to the agencies that are accredited by the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency.

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