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                    [ArticleID] => 1538682
                    [Title] => You can’t water-board fiancées at the US embassy!
                    [Summary] => 

There has been much undeserved criticism and condemnation hurled at USCIS and consular officers over issuing a fiancée (K – 1) visa to the female terrorist in the San Bernardino shootings.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-02 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134402 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805111 [AuthorName] => Michael J. Gurfinkel [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1527175 [Title] => Tips in successfully applying for and obtaining a tourist visa [Summary] =>

It is already Christmas season and it is the time of the year when people want to spend some meaningful time with their family and loved ones.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-28 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1513792 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Deadly argument [Summary] =>

Unlike ambassadors and other diplomats, consular officers normally do not enjoy full immunity from arrest, detention and prosecution in the host country.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-22 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/opinion/20151023/STARTOON.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1513833 [Title] => Philippines to turn over couple in shooting to China [Summary] =>

The two Chinese consular officers being held for killing two colleagues and wounding another in a restaurant in Cebu City last Wednesday would be turned over to the Chinese embassy because they have diplomatic immunity, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-22 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20151023/Crime.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1513895 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Time to revisit security measures [Summary] =>

At about lunchtime last Wednesday, shots suddenly rang out in a Cebu City native restaurant to abruptly bring to a violent end what was supposed to be a happy occasion, the birthday of the Chinese consul general to Cebu.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-22 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1295883 [Title] => McDonald’s George Yang awards outgoing Consul Steven Chapman [Summary] =>

McDonald’s Philippines chairman and owner George T. Yang (left), honorary consul general of the state of Eritrea and newly elected as dean for 2014 of the Consular Corps of the Philippines (CCP)...

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/5268/2wtl.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1291403 [Title] => Venezuela expels 3 US consular officials [Summary] =>

 Venezuela's president says he's ordering the expulsion of three U.S. consular officials.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-17 11:40:40 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1275113 [Title] => 38th Annual Consul Ball raises P1 M for Yolanda victims [Summary] =>

The Consular Corps of the Philippines recently turned over, through the Department of Foreign Affairs, P1 million it raised at the 38th Annual Consular Ball for the relief of the rehabilitation of super typhoon Yolanda’s victims. The donation was turned over in two tranches.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 952372 [Title] => Phl launches 'Embassy on Wheels' in Saudi [Summary] =>

The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh will conduct an “Embassy on Wheels” (EOW) consular outreach mission for Filipino nationals in Hafr Al Batin on June 13 to 14 at Ramada Hotel.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-10 10:54:43 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img593/9450/gen7q.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 875003 [Title] => BMW appointed as the premium mobility sponsor of the 37th Consular Corps Ball [Summary] =>

Asian Carmakers Corporation (ACC), the official importer and distributor of BMW cars in the Philippines, will serve as the official premium mobility sponsor of the 37th Consular Corps Ball which will be held on November 30.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Motoring [SectionUrl] => motoring [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img525/883/mot6nor.jpg ) ) )
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