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Philippine Retirement Visa

Every time you enter the Philippines with your Filipina wife from other countries such as Hong Kong, the USA, or any other foreign nation, at the airport at the immigration entry desk, you simply ask for a FREE "Balikbayan" [return to the nation] visa to be stamped onto your passport. Your free balikbayan visa grants you to stay in the Philippines for one whole year without any additional fee whatsoever.

After one year, you would require to do the following:
1. Pay the necessary fees to Philippines Immigration to extend the balikbayan visa
2. Re-enter the Philippines with your wife and ask for another FREE balikbayan visa
3. Get a Resident Alien card
4. Get a retirement visa from the Philippine Retirement Authority [explained below]
5. Get a Special Investor's Visa from the Board of Investments.

If you are going to the Philippines without your wife but you are entering to join your wife who is already in the Philippines, you should ask for a "Non-Quota Immigration Visa" based on your marriage to Filipina citizens who is currently living in the Philippines.

Philippine Retirement visa from the Philippine Retirement Authority:

Executive Order No. 1037 dated July 4, 1985 created the Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA). PRA is a government owned and guided corporation under the Office of the President and governed by a five-man Board of Trustees. PRA is assign primarily to promote and expand the Philippines as a retirement haven for foreigners, overseas and former Filipinos thereby generating foreign exchange.
 

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