SC CIRCULAR NO. 8-99, January 27, 1999

27 January 1999

The Commissioner of Immigration has apprised this
Office, through a letter dated 5 [January 1999, that, as of December
1998, there are 25,501 names of persons in the hold-departure list of
the Bureau of Immigration. These persons are the subject of
hold-departure [orders issued by the Regional Trial Courts as well as by
the Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities,
Municipal Trial Courts and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts [prior to
Circular No. 39-97 dated 19 June 1997. The Commissioner of Immigration
[states that the Bureau intends and proposes the mass lifting of the
hold-departure orders which are already ten (10) years old or more

In order to obviate complaints from party litigants
that hold-departure orders lave been inactivated or lifted although the
criminal cases in which they had been issued are still pending or
active, it is hereby directed that-information be sent to the
[Commissioner of Immigration^[*]
as to the status of the criminal cases to which these hold-departure orders pertain. The Clerks of Court of the Metropolitan
Trial Courts, [Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Trial Courts
and Municipal Circuit Trial [Courts should furnish information on
hold-departure orders issued by their respective [courts prior to
Circular No. 39-97 dated 19 June 1997.

Information sent to the Commissioner of Immigration
should include the [complete name (including the middle name) of the
person subject of the hold-departure order, the complete title and the
docket number of the criminal case in which the said ¦hold-departure
order was issued and the status of the said case as of the most recent
late. Should there be any order issued by the court lifting the
hold-departure order, a ;opy thereof shall also be furnished the
Commissioner of Immigration.

For strict compliance.

^[*] Information should be sent to the following:

The Commissioner
Bureau of Immigration
Magallanes Drive, Intramuros

Manila