BI, CFO launch joint database system

THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) and the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) have integrated their database systems to provide efficient and faster service to departing and arriving overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) while making it doubly hard for illegal and undocumented workers or victims of human trafficking.

Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said over the weekend that the BI-CFO joint system agreement aims to provide a simplified and more efficient means of processing, collecting, verifying, and sharing information or data needed by both agencies.