Comments on: Working in the Philippines if you’re a Foreigner http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/ A Forum about an American Expat Living in Davao, Philippines Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:46:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bruce http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/comment-page-1/#comment-4402 Bruce Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:33:44 +0000 http://americanindavao.com/blog/?p=956#comment-4402 Jay, I do not have a lot of hard facts. <a href="http://www.chanrobles.com/legal1.htm" rel="nofollow">Chan Robles </a> is a good resource. Also look into Foreign investment businesses. I know of a person who started a business and had the corporation hire him on paper for him to get a work visa. If your franchise is in Davao and need a manager, call on me. :-) Jay,
I do not have a lot of hard facts. Chan Robles is a good resource. Also look into Foreign investment businesses.
I know of a person who started a business and had the corporation hire him on paper for him to get a work visa. If your franchise is in Davao and need a manager, call on me. :-)

]]> By: Jay http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/comment-page-1/#comment-4397 Jay Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:17:38 +0000 http://americanindavao.com/blog/?p=956#comment-4397 Bruce, You seem to know quite a bit about relocating to the Philippines, and I've been trying to do some research of my own. Unfortunately the only answers I find to my questions are located in forums like this. Do you know where I can find the hard facts and laws regarding relocation to the Philippines? Here's a little more about myself, I am a 28 yr. old single American who would like to relocate to the Philippines with hopes of operating a franchise business. I have been working in Kuwait for the past 3 years and plan on working here for another 5 years to earn more investment capital. Do you or anyone else have any helpful advise? Bruce,

You seem to know quite a bit about relocating to the Philippines, and I’ve been trying to do some research of my own. Unfortunately the only answers I find to my questions are located in forums like this. Do you know where I can find the hard facts and laws regarding relocation to the Philippines? Here’s a little more about myself, I am a 28 yr. old single American who would like to relocate to the Philippines with hopes of operating a franchise business. I have been working in Kuwait for the past 3 years and plan on working here for another 5 years to earn more investment capital. Do you or anyone else have any helpful advise?

]]> By: Bruce http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/comment-page-1/#comment-3770 Bruce Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:20:45 +0000 http://americanindavao.com/blog/?p=956#comment-3770 Tom, I am not sure who the "we" is. All I can say, if your planing to move here and you do not have good investments and pensions, do not plan to be able to survive working here unless 10,000 Php a month working graveyard in a call center is good enough. Tom,
I am not sure who the “we” is. All I can say, if your planing to move here and you do not have good investments and pensions, do not plan to be able to survive working here unless 10,000 Php a month working graveyard in a call center is good enough.

]]> By: Tom http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/comment-page-1/#comment-3760 Tom Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:49:36 +0000 http://americanindavao.com/blog/?p=956#comment-3760 The root of the problem is we sold our means to make money offshore for a few dollars for a few people and now we are living off the fat. When that is gone we have no means to make more. Unfortunately unless a lot of people wise up fast and realize what has been done the future does indeed look very bleak. The root of the problem is we sold our means to make money offshore for a few dollars for a few people and now we are living off the fat. When that is gone we have no means to make more. Unfortunately unless a lot of people wise up fast and realize what has been done the future does indeed look very bleak.

]]> By: Bruce http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/comment-page-1/#comment-3586 Bruce Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:13:21 +0000 http://americanindavao.com/blog/?p=956#comment-3586 David S, Thanks for adding this information. David S,
Thanks for adding this information.

]]> By: david S. http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/comment-page-1/#comment-3568 david S. Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:52:50 +0000 http://americanindavao.com/blog/?p=956#comment-3568 Note: According to the Philippine Retirement Authority an SRRV visa will allow one to legally work in the Philippines. http://www.pra.gov.ph/main/srrv_program2/2?page=1 Once you are an SRRV Visa holder, it opens the door to vast opportunities and benefits. These include: 1. Option to Retire Permanently • You may live, work and study in the Philippines 2. Multiple Entry Privileges • You may travel outside the Philippines and re-enter anytime 3. Exemptions from: • Income tax over your pension and annuities; • Exit and re-entry permits of the Bureau of Immigration; • Annual registration requirement of the Bureau of Immigration; • Customs Duties and Taxes with regard to the importation of household goods and personal effects up to US$7,000.00; • Travel tax, if you stay in the Philippines is less than one year from the last entry date; and • I-Card Note: According to the Philippine Retirement Authority an SRRV visa will allow one to legally work in the Philippines.

http://www.pra.gov.ph/main/srrv_program2/2?page=1

Once you are an SRRV Visa holder, it opens the door to vast opportunities and benefits. These include:

1. Option to Retire Permanently

• You may live, work and study in the Philippines

2. Multiple Entry Privileges

• You may travel outside the Philippines and re-enter anytime

3. Exemptions from:

• Income tax over your pension and annuities;
• Exit and re-entry permits of the Bureau of Immigration;
• Annual registration requirement of the Bureau of Immigration;
• Customs Duties and Taxes with regard to the importation of household goods and personal effects up to US$7,000.00;
• Travel tax, if you stay in the Philippines is less than one year from the last entry date; and
• I-Card

]]> By: shm http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/comment-page-1/#comment-3529 shm Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:52:17 +0000 http://americanindavao.com/blog/?p=956#comment-3529 There is so much I can write about this topic, but let me the boomers are having a very difficult time conceptualizing that the world they thought was very good and normal, was really a very bad and decades long debt bubble. And so they think to fix the problem, you add more regulation, more govt, more govt spending, thus astronomically more debt. They just don't seem capable of grasping that the US govt has been in back pocket of the Fed since 1913, and that this is a grand blowoff peak in debt for the US. Nothing about the boomers life period was normal. The represent fiat money and all it's excess. And they will only get wise after the coming Greater Depression teaches them this fact. Now unless we are going to sit down and discuss all the details of what I know to be fact, and all the proofs and references, which will fill a book, then I guess we will just have to wait up to year or so to see who was more well researched. There is so much I can write about this topic, but let me the boomers are having a very difficult time conceptualizing that the world they thought was very good and normal, was really a very bad and decades long debt bubble. And so they think to fix the problem, you add more regulation, more govt, more govt spending, thus astronomically more debt. They just don’t seem capable of grasping that the US govt has been in back pocket of the Fed since 1913, and that this is a grand blowoff peak in debt for the US. Nothing about the boomers life period was normal. The represent fiat money and all it’s excess. And they will only get wise after the coming Greater Depression teaches them this fact.

Now unless we are going to sit down and discuss all the details of what I know to be fact, and all the proofs and references, which will fill a book, then I guess we will just have to wait up to year or so to see who was more well researched.

]]> By: Bruce http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/comment-page-/#comment-3521 Bruce Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:17:50 +0000 http://americanindavao.com/blog/?p=956#comment-3521 Shm, I do agree we need to take care of ourselves, the way we live and eat. I understand it more now that I am older and the effects of my younger eating habits are showing up now. I have varied opinions of the types of Government and Economy's. Recently we have seen how governments have caused problems and fixed them. If your against taxes, then how do Governments run? If all the things your against go away, it will be total chaos, total vigilante and total corruption. I do believe in free trade and free market, competition is a good thing for both the buyer and the sellers. Unfortunately when big business and banks get involved, the rich screw the poor and they bend the rules. Why else are we in such a global financial crises. The banks were giving the big investors 125% 0 interest mortgages. The investors bought up everything in site and pocketed the 25%. When they could not sell the units, they just let them foreclose. All the greedy investment companies invested heavily in the mortgages companies lost their A__'s and screamed for the government to bale them out. Now we all are hurting and blaming the democrats, before we blamed the republicans. With better government regulation and big business out of pushing the government around things would be better. Shm,
I do agree we need to take care of ourselves, the way we live and eat. I understand it more now that I am older and the effects of my younger eating habits are showing up now.
I have varied opinions of the types of Government and Economy’s. Recently we have seen how governments have caused problems and fixed them.
If your against taxes, then how do Governments run? If all the things your against go away, it will be total chaos, total vigilante and total corruption. I do believe in free trade and free market, competition is a good thing for both the buyer and the sellers. Unfortunately when big business and banks get involved, the rich screw the poor and they bend the rules. Why else are we in such a global financial crises. The banks were giving the big investors 125% 0 interest mortgages. The investors bought up everything in site and pocketed the 25%. When they could not sell the units, they just let them foreclose. All the greedy investment companies invested heavily in the mortgages companies lost their A__’s and screamed for the government to bale them out. Now we all are hurting and blaming the democrats, before we blamed the republicans. With better government regulation and big business out of pushing the government around things would be better.

]]> By: Bruce http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/comment-page-1/#comment-3520 Bruce Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:04:18 +0000 http://americanindavao.com/blog/?p=956#comment-3520 Ed, Sorry, I edited my comment, I meant to say Bernard Madoff. Ed,
Sorry, I edited my comment, I meant to say Bernard Madoff.

]]> By: ed http://americanindavao.com/blog/2009/07/working-in-the-philippines-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-foreigner/comment-page-1/#comment-3518 ed Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:17:55 +0000 http://americanindavao.com/blog/?p=956#comment-3518 who is madox? who is madox?

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