Further to Department Order No. 14-94 dated 24 March 1994,  the following guidelines are hereby issued:

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