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Immigration Alexander LLanes Acain, Jr. on 26 Sep 2006

ACR I-Card implementation extended to November 14, 2006

I have just wrote earlier that the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation was determined to implement the I-Card project on August 14, 2006 - I was wrong. Days before the deadline set on August 14, 2006, immigration commissioner Alipio Fernandez, Jr. ordered the extension of the implementation of the I-Card project to November 14, 2006, to give foreigners one final chance to comply with the new requirement. At any rate, I was told that this will be the last and final extension with a stern warning to foreigners who shall fail to apply for an I-Card on or before November 14, 2006, that they will be arrested and subjected to deportation proceedings.

Annulment Alexander LLanes Acain, Jr. on 23 Sep 2006

A psychologically incapacitated person cannot legally remarry

Almost all persons who came to us for a legal consultation for the purpose of terminating their existing marriages also manifested their intention to remarry whenever the Court would grant them the annulment decree. It is either that they are already into an existing relationship or that their american fiance will soon petition them for the issuance of a fiancee visa or popularly known as the K-1 visa. The ground for nullity of marriage is always the same - psychological incapacity.

Incorporation & Outsourcing Alexander LLanes Acain, Jr. on 11 Aug 2006

Additional SEC requirement to incorporate a Call Center

Aside from the usual incorporation requirements to incorporate a company in the Philippines, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) now requires companies that will engage in Call Center operations to submit a ”Modus Operandi” or Call Center Mode of Operation. There is no standard form required by the SEC but I would suggest that the Mode of Operation should contain the following:

Incorporation & Outsourcing Alexander LLanes Acain, Jr. on 30 Jul 2006

Foreign ownership and minimum investment requirement for outsourcing companies

Philippines is experiencing an explosion in the outsourcing industry today. This is based on investments charts and statistics published by various market forecasters. I had the opportunity to discuss about foreign ownership in outsourcing companies when an editor from a widely circulated business news publication in the Philippines called me up in my office one time.

Annulment Raul John Tañedo on 30 Jul 2006

Rights of women under Republic Act 9262

Republic Act No. 9262, otherwise known as “Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of 2004″, has for its purpose the protection of family members; particularly, women and childred, from violence and threats to their personal safety and security.