PAGCOR<\/strong>) had previously revoked the permits of the offshore gaming operators employing them, which caused the BI to cancel their visas.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Director of Immigration noted that it regularly submits reports to the Department of Justice on the status of those still to be deported. Justice secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla<\/strong> said he was closely monitoring the return of the workers to their home countries. Foreigners who are deported are automatically added to the immigration blacklist<\/strong>, effectively preventing them from returning to the Philippines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group is among the 300 foreigners slated for deportation by the Bureau of Immigration (BI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippine Bureau of Immigration (BI) has deported 17 Chinese citizens involved in illegal online gambling operations, following an earlier batch of six deportations. This action is part of a larger government initiative to deport nearly 300 illegally employed foreign nationals, stemming from permit revocations by PAGCOR and subsequent visa cancellations.","focusai_entities":"Bureau of Immigration, BI, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp, PAGCOR, Department of Justice, Jesus Crispin Remulla","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"PAGCOR's Enforcement Impact?","query":"What is the broader impact of PAGCOR's permit revocations on the operational landscape and investor confidence within the Philippine offshore gaming (POGO) sector?"},{"label":"Future Regulatory Outlook?","query":"How might these ongoing deportations and enforcement actions signal a shift in the Philippine government's long-term regulatory and governance framework for iGaming, particularly concerning foreign labor and B2B\/B2C licensing?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[15789],"class_list":["post-35493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pogos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35512,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35493\/revisions\/35512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}