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SEVEN Chinese men found to be working in a quarry site in Batangas on Wednesday were arrested by operatives of the Bureau of Immigration (BI).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to BI Intelligence Division chief Fortunato Manahan Jr., the seven Chinese nationals were arrested in an operation conducted by its Regional Intelligence Operations Unit (RIOU) 4-A and government intelligence forces, in coordination with the Taysan Municipal Police Station.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Manahan said their initial target was Wang Zhenglai, 34, who possessed a working visa but was found to have been petitioned by a fake company.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, during their operations, they were able to arrest six others who were found to be illegally working in the same area.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Apart from Wang, five other workers were found to be possessing a 9(g) working visa but were petitioned by companies located in Quezon City. One was found to be working with merely a tourist visa.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of the workers identified as Wang Shou Min, 67, was said to be the \u201cbig boss\u201d of the mining company and is the father of Wang Zhenglai.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco reiterated that working visas are both company-specific and station-specific.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cForeign nationals who possess a working visa but found to be petitioned by fake companies or caught to be working in other locations may face deportation cases,\u201d Tansingco said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The use of fake companies as petitioners, said Tansingco, is becoming a trend following the recent discovery of foreign nationals presenting fraudulently-acquired documents to stay in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tansingco said the arrest stemmed from intelligence information that some Chinese nationals are found to be working illegally in mining operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SEVEN Chinese men found to be working in a quarry site in Batangas on Wednesday were arrested by operatives of the Bureau of Immigration (BI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6198,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions\/6198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}