BUREAU of Immigration (BI) officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and other major airports have dropped earlier plans to resign en masse or go on mass leave despite their low pay and non-payment of their overtime pay out of patriotic duty.

Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente on Tuesday disclosed that most of the immigration officers assigned to the NAIA, the country’s premier airport, have been reporting for work, citing a report from the bureau’s port operations division that daily attendance of BI’s airport personnel is at 95 percent.

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