The commonly used visa that we apply for our clients is non-quota immigrant visa. This visa can be obtained by reason of marriage to a Filipino pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Philippine Immigration Act of 1940 - or 13(a) visa. But there are other options aside from 13(a) visa. Please see the list of visas below which can also be applicable in your situation.

1. Employment Visa 9(g)

2. Quota Immigrant Visa

3. Retirement Visa

4. Treaty Trader

5. Temporary Resident Visa (TRV)

6. Special Investor’s Resident Visa

7. Special non-immigrant visa pursuant to 47(a)2

8. Dual Citizenship 

9. Special Non-immigrant visa pursuant to P.D. 226

It seems to me that the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) is already serious this time to strictly implement the ACR I-Card project. If we recall, the BID has issued a Memorandum dated April 5, 2006 giving all registered aliens until August 13, 2006 to secure the ACR I-Card. This means that starting August 14, 2006, any registered alien found in possession of the previously issued paper based Alien Certificate of Registration (ACR) shall be presumed undocumented alien and can be proceeded against in accordance with the procedure for deportation of aliens. The ACR I-Card was supposed to be implemented in December 2004. But since then, the BID has postponed its implementation for a number of times already.