Cash windfall awaits immigration employees

A cash windfall awaits the almost 3,000 rank-and-file employees of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) as soon as the required guidelines allowing the bureau to again use its income for operational purposes is completed.

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre 2nd disclosed over the weekend that a technical working group (TWG) would be created to draft the guidelines for the use of the bureau’s “express lane fund (ELF)” as payment for overtime pay and other costs of services incurred by the bureau.