PPRI MEMORANDUM 99-61, September 22, 1999
USE THE SERVICES OF TRAVEL AGENTS TO GET/PREPARE/REVALIDATE YOUR PASSPORTS AND DOCUMENTS FOR YOUR TRAVEL VISA
to Manila to follow-up your travel documents for passports and VISAs.
This process is very expensive: you go on leave (this affects your
work), you use vehicles and driver’s services (per diems), etc.
The office could send to DA your request for travel authority, and
other documents from the personnel office, which are necessary in
initiating the process.
These will then be given to a travel agent who will do all the other
documentations and follow-ups. You have P1 ,500 as source of payments
for the services of the travel agent. (If the travel is sponsored by
IRRI, then they take care of the passport and visa leg-work. Our office
at UPLB will coordinate.)
Let us do everything possible to reduce leg-work on your part and on
our transport services; and let us use our time in doing our work at
PhilRice instead of following-up papers in Manila. The only exception is
when a country requires your personal appearance before your visa could
be issued.
Let us help each other locate a travel agent who could provide us the necessary services.
Let me know those who have travel agents; Let us consolidate their services.
Please be guided accordingly.
Adopted: 22 Sept. 1999
(SGD.) SANTIAGO R. OBIEN
Director