Moving to Manila July 2018

[Dave Hounddriver]

9 minutes ago, mogo51 said:

Can anyone advise how long you can stay on a Balikbahan Visa?

From what I can tell its just a glorified tourist visa, meaning you get a year's free priviledge as Balikbayan (its not really a Visa its just that you get 1 year free instead of the 30 days free that we regular tourists get).   Then after the year you either leave and come back for another free year or you start paying for tourist visa renewals like the rest of us.  (Or go the 13a married resident visa route)

[mogo51]

1 minute ago, Dave Hounddriver said:

From what I can tell its just a glorified tourist visa, meaning you get a year's free priviledge as Balikbayan (its not really a Visa its just that you get 1 year free instead of the 30 days free that we regular tourists get).   Then after the year you either leave and come back for another free year or you start paying for tourist visa renewals like the rest of us.  (Or go the 13a married resident visa route)

Thanks Dave.

[Jack Peterson]

11 minutes ago, mogo51 said:

Can anyone advise how long you can stay on a Balikbahan Visa?

1 year then you can extend as a normal 9a but somewhere I read that you can only extend twice after on that I am not sure

 Jack 

 Morning All

[mogo51]

4 minutes ago, Jack Peterson said:

1 year then you can extend as a normal 9a but somewhere I read that you can only extend twice after on that I am not sure

 Jack 

 Morning All

That was my next question, thanks Jack.

[mogo51]

6 minutes ago, mogo51 said:

That was my next question, thanks Jack.

Just read on BI website, 12 months, then extend up to 6 months, for a period of 36 months.

[Jack Peterson]

1 minute ago, mogo51 said:

Just read on BI website, 12 months, then extend up to 6 months, for a period of 36 months.

So basically you will return to a 9a Tourist Visa with all it's trappings 

[mogo51]

2 minutes ago, Jack Peterson said:

So basically you will return to a 9a Tourist Visa with all it's trappings 

Yes that is how I read it Jack.

[Dave Hounddriver]

25 minutes ago, Jack Peterson said:

So basically you will return to a 9a Tourist Visa with all it's trappings

Which is what some purty fart smelller . . er smart feller said a few posts back 

43 minutes ago, Dave Hounddriver said:

From what I can tell its just a glorified tourist visa

 

[Jack Peterson]

4 minutes ago, Dave Hounddriver said:

From what I can tell its just a glorified tourist visa

Yeah but Free for 1 year  Although if you count the cost of taking the wife away to get it on your Return I wonder which is cheaper,

Of course in Ron's situation Pre is with him there in Thailand so she will be returning 

[AlwaysRt]

1 hour ago, Dave Hounddriver said:

From what I can tell its just a glorified tourist visa, meaning you get a year's free priviledge as Balikbayan (its not really a Visa its just that you get 1 year free instead of the 30 days free that we regular tourists get).   Then after the year you either leave and come back for another free year or you start paying for tourist visa renewals like the rest of us.  (Or go the 13a married resident visa route)

...and to add a little more clarity (I checked in December as I was wondering this part myself) the one year of free Balikbayan is exactly like the initial tourist waiver. Meaning if you convert to a tourist Visa you have 2 years remaining to extend (in country total of 3 years), you do Not get 1 year Balikbayan the convert to 3 year tourist (total of 4 years).