Malapit nang maging batas ang “Anti-Mail Order Spouse Act” matapos pagtibayin ng Kamara at Senado ang pinal na bersiyon ng panukala.
Ipinasa ng Kamara ang House Bill 5572 noong Mayo 19, 2016 o “Anti-Mail Order Spouse Act” at ipinadala sa Senado, na inaprubahan naman ito bilang Senate Bill 3209 noong Mayo 23, 2016. Ang aprubadong panukala ay ipadadala sa Pangulo para lagdaan bilang batas.
“The proposed ‘Anti-Mail Order Spouse Act’ provides for stronger measures against unlawful practices, businesses, and schemes of matching and offering Filipinos to foreign nationals for purposes of marriage of common law partnership, repealing for the purpose Republic Act No. 6955, also referred to as the ‘Anti-Mail Order Bride Law.’”
(Bert de Guzman)
Tsika at Intriga
