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To modernize and improve efficiency and security of the alien registration, identification, and monitoring system through an automated, accurate, fraud-proof, and tamper-proof registration and identification of registered aliens.
All registered aliens, including their dependents, who were duly issued paper-based ACRs, and other aliens required to register under the Alien Registration Act.
A person who is not a national or citizen of the Republic of the Philippines, who was validly granted a visa and correspondingly issued an Alien Certificate of Registration.
Native-born; permanent residents under Section 13 and its sub-sections; temporary visitors; treaty traders under Section 9(d); temporary students under Section 9(f); pre-arranged employees under Section 9(g) and other special laws; special resident investors under EO 226 and EO 63; and other aliens required by law to register (including those exempted from immigration fees who may opt to avail of the ACR I-Card subject to the card fee).
A microchip-based credit card-sized identification card issued to a registered alien replacing the paper-based ACR. It has an embedded computer chip with biometric security features and is fraud- and tamper-proof/resistant.
Personal information (e.g., name, age, date of birth, place of birth, address); photograph; date and status of admission; visa type granted; biometric information (2 digitalized fingerprint templates); signature; ACR and ICR/CPTV/CRTT/CRTS/CRPE numbers; travel details; and payment of immigration fee details; plus emigration clearance/special return/re-entry permit details.
The process of accurately recording the entry, admission, personal circumstances, residence, exit, and death of non-citizens in the Philippines, documenting aliens admitted under nonimmigrant or immigrant status through issuance of necessary forms to precisely chronicle their stay and activities.
A five-member committee: (1) Associate Commissioner in charge of IT projects (or designated representative) as Chair; (2) Chief of the Alien Registration Division (ARD) as Vice Chair; (3) two (2) ARD personnel designated by the Chief, ARD; and (4) one (1) from the Office of the Executive Director designated by the Executive Director.
It checks the validity of the immigration status and the genuineness of the ACR submitted, and verifies all data entered in the application; if verified appropriate, it endorses issuance of the ACR I-Card.
At the Main Office, Bureau of Immigration, Intramuros, Manila. Aliens residing outside Metro Manila may apply at the nearest district port once the system is set up there; otherwise, all applications are in Manila.
(1) Fill up and submit the ACR I-Card application at Window 1; attach original copies of the ACR and ICR/CRTV/CRTT/CRTS/CRPE and order granting the visa (if still held); (2) go to ARD counter to secure an Order of Payment Slip (OPS); (3) pay the card fee at the designated cashier using the OPS; (4) go to Windows 1.2 and 1.6 for data capturing (picture, fingerprint, signature); (5) forward application and documents to the Committee through ARD for verification; (6) Committee endorses issuance if verified appropriate; otherwise, it takes appropriate action; (7) claim the ACR I-Card on the date specified in the claim stub.
US$50.00 or its Philippine peso equivalent as posted in the major daily broadsheets at the time of payment.
Yearly, simultaneous with the payment of the annual report fee.
Special immigration booths at ports of entry/exit with an estimated 10 seconds service time; assurance of a genuinely issued ACR; faster and more efficient service; convenience due to the tamper- and fraud-proof card and elimination of paper-based AR and other related documents mentioned (e.g., ECC, SRC, re-entry permit).
The Committee may authorize that data capturing (picture taking, fingerprinting, and signing) be done at the applicant’s residence.
They have until June 30, 2004. Failure to comply within the period subjects them to an administrative fine of P500.00 per month or fraction thereof, capped at P2,000.00. After December 31, 2004, possession of a paper-based ACR means they shall be deemed not properly documented and may be proceeded against under pertinent provisions of the Immigration Act of 1940 or Alien Registration Act of 1950, as amended.