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BUREAU of Immigration (BI) officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 intercepted two women suspected of being fake Filipinos last July 10.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco shared that the two women, identified only as \u201cDianne\u201d and \u201cMyla\u201d attempted to depart on board a Cathay Pacific flight to Beijing when they were stopped by officers.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Officers doubted their identity when they noticed that the two women were unable to speak in any Filipino language.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Passenger \u201cDiann,\u201d 61-years-old, presented a valid Philippine passport and a birth certificate. Immigration officers noted that her birth was registered only in 2002 when she was already 39 years old.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The woman gave highly inconsistent statements about her identity, and declared that she could not remember the name of the school she attended in the Philippines.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Passenger \u201cMyla\u201d attempted to pass through a separate immigration counter but was also referred for further assessment after inconsistencies were found by the officers. She presented a Philippine passport, a Philippine driver\u2019s license, and a UMID ID.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She claimed that she was homeschooled by her grandmother, and cannot remember details about her childhood and her family.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She later admitted that she was only able to acquire said documents through a contact she met online.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tansingco said that they suspect the two women are Chinese nationals.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThis seems like another case of fraud, wherein foreign nationals are able to secure Philippine documents through illegal means,\u201d said Tansingco.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The two women were arrested and will remain in the BI\u2019s facility in Bicutan, Taguig while they face immigration deportation charges.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BUREAU of Immigration (BI) officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 intercepted two women suspected of being fake Filipinos last July 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193"}],"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=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7195,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions\/7195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}