The House committees on foreign affairs and appropriations has endorsed the approval of a bill which “aims to update and reflect the current laws that affect the process of issuing passports,” Cagayan de Oro City 2nd District Representative Rufus Rodriguez, a member of the foreign affairs panel and one of the authors measure, disclosed on Monday.
The proposed law also seeks to allow the issuance of temporary travel papers under certain circumstances, such as the urgent travel of a person who has not been issued a passport yet, or someone who has lost his or her passport. These are Emergency Travel Document, Travel Document Certificate and Convention Travel Document.
Rodriguez, whose House Bill No. 6399 was included in the committee-approved measure, said there is a need to update the Republic Act No. 9239, or the Philippine Passport Act of 1996, to ensure that the Filipinos’ right to travel is not impaired.
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