If Your Dead. Bi Wants Your Acr I- Card Back

[Call me bubba]

BI tells operators of funeral parlors: Surrender ACR I-Cards of dead foreigners

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has instructed operators of funeral parlors and crematoriums nationwide to surrender to the bureau the alien certificate of registration identity card (ACR I-Card) of deceased foreigners.

In an advisory, Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. yesterday reminded the mortuary owners of an existing BI regulation requiring them to surrender the ACR I-Cards of dead foreigners before they are buried or cremated.

Thus, David advised all funeral parlor/crematorium operators to coordinate with the bureau’s alien registration division in surrendering

the ACR I-Card of deceased aliens within 72 hours before the scheduled date of their internment or cremation.

According to the BI chief, surrendering

the ACR I-Card is necessary to enable the bureau to update its records on registered aliens.

He explained that upon surrender of

the ACR I-Card, the ARD shall cancel the registration of the deceased alien in observance of record maintenance protocols.  

Lawyer Ronaldo Ledesma, BI acting alien registration chief, said his office needs to purge its records of deceased aliens to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the bureau’s list of registered foreigners.

Ledesma disclosed that the rule requiring mortuaries to surrender the ACR of deceased aliens has been in effect since 1954.

Presently, there are more than 200,000 aliens with valid ACR I-Cards who are registered with the BI.

The ACR I-Card serves as proof of a foreigner’s lawful sojourn in the country and it is issued to aliens with immigrant, non-immigrant and special non-immigrant visas.

The card also serves as an exit and reentry permit, thus resident aliens cannot leave the country without their ACR I-Card.                        

 

 

http://www.tribune.net.ph/metro-section/item/9560-bi-tells-operators-of-funeral-parlors-surrender-acr-i-cards-of-dead-foreigners

[Dave Hounddriver]

The card also serves as an exit and reentry permit, thus resident aliens cannot leave the country without their ACR I-Card.  

 

Does this mean you cannot have your remains sent back to your home country as the ACR card has already been returned?  Does it mean we should carry a card that says:  BI did not issue my ACR card, no stock, no need to keep searching my dead body?  Does it mean we should write in our wallets:  That is not my ACR card, it is a CREDIT card.  Leave the friggin thing alone and stop rifling though my things, they belong to my heirs.

[Jollygoodfellow]

Makes sense to me. But not necessarily going to work as nothing is to say a body will have the card with them at the time unless the funeral parlor has to request it from the deceased family.