Facade of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (FILE PHOTO)
MANILA, Philippines — Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) barred an American convicted of sex crimes in the United States from entering the country.
Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said Thomas Henry Vander Waal, 39, was intercepted at Naia Terminal 1 upon his arrival aboard a China Eastern Airlines flight from Taipei, Taiwan.
The American was immediately issued an exclusion order after the officer who processed his arrival documents saw that his name was in the BI’s alert list of registered sex offenders, Tansingco said in a statement.
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“Our immigration law expressly forbids entry of aliens who have been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude because they are undesirable aliens,” he explained.