There is no immigration office located anywhere on Siquijor Island. If you want to extend your stay on Siquijor, you must go to the Bureau of Immigration in Dumaguete city.
The immigration office in Dumaguete is located on Dr V. Locsin Street, not far from the port. In order to reach the office from the port, just walk south along the coast and take the right when you see a hotel named RedDoorz. Keep straight for 300 meters. The office will be on your right, inside a narrow alley, next to a bakery. It’s a 10-minute walk away from the port.
The office is theoretically open from 8:00 to 18:00. Although, they don’t process applications after 15:00. Furthermore, they have a long lunch break at noon and queues are likely to be long. So better make sure you arrive there the soonest possible if you rather not come in vain.
We arrived there shortly before 8:00 and found a bunch of foreigners already waiting. The staff were already inside but the office was still closed. They had though left outside a box with number papers for the applicants to get in queue. They finally opened a bit after 8:30.
There was only one staff actually working with the visa extension applications and two more that didn’t do much. They didn’t have much of a system but, given the circumstances, the queue moved fairly fast. We had the number and 12 and it took about an hour for our turn to come.
For processing our application, we needed to fill up a form and bring our own passport photocopies. None of the staff bothered about informing the applicants about this in advance, while waiting. We had to figure it out ourselves by watching the other applicants, ask one of the idle staff for the form, and go to the printing place across the street to get our passport copies done.
Once making it to the desk with all the papers ready, the process was quite quick. We were given the choice to either pay PHP 3,030 for express delivery or PHP 2,030 for the normal procedure. The former would take one day, the latter one week. Even if we had chosen the first, we’d still need to get the ferry back and forth to collect our passports, all the same. Since we were settled on Siquijor for some time and were in no hurry, we, of course, opted for the normal procedure.
We got there exactly one week later and collected our passports without needing to wait in the queue. We only asked one of the idle staff and waited a bit till he managed to find our passports among the many others crammed inside several big cardboard boxes. Then we had to wait a little more for the working clerk to call us to the desk. We filled another form and were good to go. They did not stamp our passports but gave us a sort of receipt which we’d need to carry along upon our exit from the country.
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