testing & quarantine for arriving passengers

jwschmidt wrote:

A quick update. PAL have revised their flight schedule and won't start Vancouver to Manila flights until 16th of June now (previously they said 10th of June). Not sure about flights from elsewhere.

NAIA website says the Vancouver flight scheduled to land at 3:40 AM on 6/16 was cancelled, with none scheduled to land on the 17th or 18th.  They are selling tickets on Wednesdays only through June, with Sunday flights being added in July.  Who knows if any of these flights will be diverted to Cebu or elsewhere.

RainTrek wrote:

"Under the “Balikbayan Program” of the Philippines, the following persons are considered Balikbayans:
•    a Filipino citizen who has been continuously out of the Philippines for a period of at least one year from the date of last departure;
•    a Filipino Overseas Worker; and
•    a former Filipino citizen who had been naturalized in a foreign country and holds a foreign passport (original proof of former Philippine citizenship, such as old Philippine passport, birth certificate, or foreign naturalization papers showing Filipino nationality will be required).
Balikbayans are entitled to the following benefits:
•    travel tax exemption
•    visa-free entry to the Philippines for a period of one year from the date of arrival in the Philippines
•    duty-free shopping privileges up to US$1,500.00
Family members (spouse and children) of a Balikbayan who are holding foreign passports are also entitled to Balikbayan privileges, on the condition that they:
•    travel with the Balikbayan;
•    pay any applicable immigration fees; and
•    observe and comply with immigration rules and regulations.
(proof of affiliation may be required)"
TrainWreck

Sounds like you have what you need.  My wife's Philippines passport expired and she travels on her USA passport.  She also went to the consulate in NYC and got an identification certificate from the Consulant General which includes her picture and two thumb prints.  Says that on August 8, 2008, as a natural born citizen of the Philippines she was recognized as a citizen of the Philippines as per her Petition for Reaquisition of Philippine Citizenship and Oath of Allegiance taken before the Philippine Consulate General.  This was required because when she became an American citizen she renounced her Philippine Citizenship.  You might want to have your wife do this in DC.  We take this certificate and a copy of our marriage license for entry and exit from the Philippines, never have any problems, never pay any taxes.

rcvining wrote:

Sounds like a plan, TrainWreck. My wife has dual citizenship, though the Immigration folks don't recognize the documentation she got from the consulate in NY, so she entered as a balikbayan in January.
-- Rich

The paperwork my wife got  at the NY Consulate has worked every time we have visited and exited the Philippines, 6 times starting in October of 2008 including each of the last three years.

RainTrek wrote:

Our PAL flight PR469 ICN>MNL (Seoul to Manila) on July 2 was just cancelled.
We are awaiting confirmation of July 10 KAL KE623 ICN>MNL.
Anyone have any other recommendations? We are trying to get from Virginia to Manila and ultimately CDO. We usually fly out of Dulles or Richmond, but willing to use LAX/JFK or whatever. It's me, my wife, and 12-year-old daughter. (My wife is balikbayan.)
Thank you,
TrainWreck

We had no problems flying from Manila to JFK on 6/18/20.  You might want to check out the PAL non-stop JFK to Manila.  With all the cancels and changes I would think non-stop would be best at this time.  You could be stuck in South Korea or wind up in Cebu.