BI thanks President for personal visit.
Byline: Jun Ramirez The Bureau of Immigration (BI) thanked President Arroyo for the unscheduled visit to the BI offices last week even if it was only to make sure that the BI is up to the challenge of protecting Filipino interests from foreigners in the country, it...

Hastening the approval of dual citizenship law.
IT was the first day of the state visit to the US of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. And the event was the dinner-reception at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, D.C. The National Federation of Filipino-American Associations was the host. The formal affair had around 1,000 Fil-Ams. ...

Loren wishes First Gentleman early recovery.
Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate Loren Legarda expressed yesterday her wishes for the full recovery of the First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo who underwent open heart surgery at St. Luke's hospital Monday night. "I wish the First Gentleman a fast and full recovery from his operation. I hope...

Immigration bureau reports increase in tourist visa extensions.
Byline: JUN RAMIREZ Foreign tourists continued to enter the country in droves last year as the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported a 26-percent increase in the number of foreign visitors who extended their visas compared to those who stayed longer in 2005. Immigration Commissioner Alipio...

Law and Citizenship.
9780774812993 Law and citizenship. Ed. by the Law Commission of Canada. U. of British Columbia Press 2006 215 pages $85.00 Hardcover Legal dimensions series K3224 From the Law Commission...

Economics of European Union law.
9781845426392 Economics of European Union law. Ed. by Paul B. Stephan. Edward Elgar Publishing 2007 757 pages $315.00 Hardcover Economic approaches to law KJE947 As the legal system of...

Over 2,000 Filipinos reacquire citizenship.
Byline: JUN RAMIREZ Over 2,000 former Filipinos have already reacquired their Philippine citizenship under the Dual Citizenship Law which Congress passed more than a year ago in a bid to encourage balikbayans to frequent their land of birth and boost the countrys local tourism industry. ...

Italian citizenship and the transcending of territory.
Mass migration means that links between a person's country of residence and country of citizenship are now often broken. In such circumstances what political rights should an expatriate citizen have? Italy has created overseas electorates for Italian citizens living abroad. This spreads the Italian nation well beyond the territorial...

Holes in the rights framework: racial discrimination, citizenship, and the rights of noncitizens.
Dilcia Yean was born on April 15, 1996, in the Dominican Republic to a Dominican woman of Haitian descent. Although the Dominican constitution establishes the principle of jus soli (and thus assigns citizenship to those born on Dominican territory), Yean was denied Dominican citizenship, and was refused permission to...

BI cites hike in RP arrivals.
Byline: JUN RAMIREZ The Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported yesterday an eight percent increase in the number of foreign visitors in the first six months of 2006, compared with the same period in 2005. Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. said that a total of 1,381,595...