MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration has denied Australian missionary Patricia Fox’s plea to extend her missionary visa. According to Sandoval, Fox was “ordered to file for downgrading to revert her status to a temporary visitor’s visa.”A visitor’s visa has a 59-day stay period, said Sandoval. For the Australian missionary, it will start from the date of her missionary visa’s expiry, which was last September 5. On August 20, Fox, through her lawyer Jobert Pahilga, asked the Immigration to renew her missionary visa. Pahilga stressed that Fox’s visa renewal should be taken as a separate matter from her ongoing deportation case.

Source: Philippine Star September 16, 2018 03:33 UTC