Senator Nancy Binay, taking up the cudgels for affected travelers, took issue with the new controversial rules of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) now being enforced by the Bureau of Immigration (BI). The senator suggested that concerned authorities should “focus more on using technology to improve profiling, instead of…
Senator Nancy Binay, taking up the cudgels for affected travelers, took issue with the new controversial rules of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking now being enforced by the Bureau of Immigration .
She added: “Yung technology naririyan para safe, secured and convenient ang mga pasahero. Malaking tulong din ang technology to curb human trafficking. Kung kaduda-duda talaga ang background ng byahero at kasamang biktima, that’s the time immigration people should do their jobs of cross-checking the info they have in their database and compare it to the claims of the person in question,” the senator stressed.
“We all know that visa applications are all scrutinized for accuracy and consistency,” she said, adding, “Kapag medyo kaduda-duda ang impormasyong nakalagay, expect an outright rejection of your application. Ang dapat sigurong higpitan yung mga babyahe papunta sa countries na walang visa at mataas ang human trafficking cases—in this case, cross referencing is necessary to check the background of a particular traveler,” Binay reminded.
Binay reminded that the IACAT purpose of requiring Filipino travelers to present notarized documents was to stop human trafficking.
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