I work in the Manila property services market for the last 8 years. Pre-2020, it is an open secret among veteran property brokers in the property market serving China nationals that Philippines passport can be purchased for a price.
The cost of buying a Philippines passport is around 200,000 peso (US$4000 then) back in 2017–2019, but China National property agents in Manila often markup the price to US$10,000 to US$90,000 when selling these passports to China Nationals, who are often China gambling POGO bosses or POGO senior management. Why is US$90,000 the upper price limit? Because Cambodia passports were available for sale at around US$90,000–100,000 in the same period. This put the price ceiling at US$90,000.
The steps to creating these Philippines passport involve using late birth registration to get the Birth Certificate, and then obtaining Postal ID as Postal ID have the easiest requirements and least regulatory oversight and easily bribed.
As a Singaporean (with a highly effective and strict government) Chartered Accountant, I do not sell Philippines or any passports to any customers, as this is very illegal, criminal acts. My son is Filipino and I hate to see these criminal acts driving up property affordability for my son. But many China property agents active in Manila do not care and just want to earn.
This is why in 2017–2020, even though foreigners cannot buy landed property, landed property in Makati, BGC, Ayala Alabang, Multinational Village more than tripled in value. Because many China nationals POGO bosses were buying Philippines passport and using these passports to buy landed property and lands.
The China agents and their Filipino collaborator will tell the China nationals POGO buyers that these passports are real and be safely be used to buy land and setup fully-owned corporations, but avoid travelling with them. But Chinese POGO people are too arrogant. They like to push boundaries by travelling with these purchased Philippines passports. That is why in the last 5 years, there are random news reports of China nationals caught using “fake Philippines passports in NAIA airport”. Those passports are real, but they get caught because they look China-face, and when a sharp immigration agent test them using Tagalog, they cannot reply. That is why they get caught.
Actually, these China agents and their Filipino collaborators provide a private service called 保关 or “guaranteed immigration clearance”. Paying a fee of US$200–400, they will arrange for the China POGO people using Philippines to enter a pre-arranged, designated immigration lane where the collaborators will clear their entry with no questions asked.
Of course, we have the grand champion, Alice Guo, who use her purchased, illicitly-obtained Philippines passport to run for elections and actually become a Mayor!!!
if Philippines government want to earn good money, just launch a detailed investigation into all suspicious late registration passports issued between 2011–2019 and then confiscate all lands and businesses obtained using these illicitly-obtained Philippines passports. Can definitely earn at least a few hundred billion peso, lol.
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