PRA | Philippine Retirement Authority

 

Do you really need to bother? Just asking as I never transferred my 13A over and see no need to as I have already traveled outside the country and been thru multiple annuals with no issues.

 

I would do it, just to be on the safe side. All it would take is for someone at an airport checkin counter, to decide to deny your boarding because you don't have a return ticket, nor a visa in your port. Also, you never know what mood the immigration officer might be in. For the SRRV you need your port when you renew your card. So an expired port would need to be renewed before renewing the SRRV card anyway.

 

I returned to the Philippines last week. Showed them my old port with visa inside and up to date ID card. No problem at all. But YMMV.

 

I would agree to move the SRRV to the new port. Some immigration agent could easily reason that the visa stamp must be placed in an active port. I am renewing this year and intend to have that done, just to be on the safe side.

 

And the time that you are without your port , when the visa is moved is I think 10 weeks. Thats a long time to go without a port for a simple visa transfer.

 

Agree. But that's the way it is. Requires planning in your life.

 

Dan you can do this sort of thing by courier with a PRA rep. I renewed my SRRVvisa card in a day or two with my PRA rep. He said next time do it by courier to him to save myself a trip. Renewals are quick and easy.

 

It takes 3 days longer if using a PRA satellite office.

This is at the bottom of the PRA link I posted.

 

https://pra.gov.ph/-us

Scroll down to see the PRA satellite offices