IMPLEMENTING GUIDELINES ON COLLECTION AND REMITTANCE OF ALIEN SOCIAL INTEGRATION FEE UNDER R.A. NO. 7919 (ASIA)

1.         The Treasurer of the Philippines or his duly authorized
representative under DOF Order No. 14-94 shall accredit the
commercial/universal bank (accredited by the BIR to receive income tax
payments) authorized to accept Alien Integration Fee payments. Said
payments to the BANK shall be credited to the Savings Account of the
Treasurer of the Philippines value date on actual deposit date.

2.         Bureau of Immigration, Manila, shall issue a
pre-numbered and pre-coded Order of Payment Slip (OPS) in six copies
(see prescribed format, Annex A) authorizing the accredited BANK to
accept payment of integration fees from the applicant under the Alien
Social Integration Act, RA 7919.

3.         The BANK shall machine-validate all copies covering
payments received in cash and/or cashier’s/manager’s checks. It shall
retain two (2) copies, one for its files and the duplicate copy to be
furnished the BTr/Regional Fiscal Examiners  together with BANK NOTICE
OF DEPOSITED COLLECTIONS (see prescribed format, Annex B). The original
shall be retained by the applicant after submission to BI (for
validation by BI with its 3 copies).

4.         The BANK shall issue and deliver a credit advice to the
National Cash Accounting Division, Bureau of Treasury, not later than
day 2 from value date. The BANK shall attach to the credit advice a
summary of duly numbered BANK Notice of Deposited Collections,
corresponding to the amount of the credit advice.

5.         BI disbursements representing publication costs for
each alien applicant shall be covered by a Notice of Cash Allocation
(NCA) from DBM, except when BI is authorized by the Permanent Committee
to set up a trust fund as an exception to PC Circular No. 1-93 on the
use of fees collected by national government agencies.

6.         BTr/Regional Fiscal Examiners shall prepare a
consolidated report of deposited payments on the basis of reconciled
Notice of Deposited Collections as against the validated duplicate copy
of OPS. These copies shall be picked-up by BTr/Regional Fiscal Examiners
every Monday and Wednesday from the BANK, as per DOF Order No. 14-94.

7.         The Treasurer of the Philippines and the Bank shall enter into a Memorandum of Agreement to implement this Order.

This Order shall take effect on 01 June 1995.

16 Nov. 2000

(SGD.) ROMEO L. BERNARDO
Acting Secretary