MANILA, Philippines — Compared to 2019, total revenue from immigration fees dropped to P5.88 billion in 2020 as the country continues to grapple with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported Monday.
BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said the revenues collected from immigration fees last year was 36.1 percent lower than the record-high income of P9.3 billion the bureau posted in 2019.
“We anticipated our revenues to decrease due to the pandemic. With more foreign nationals going out of the country than going in, we were able to collect less revenue from visa applications,” Morente said in a stat…
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