5 November 2026 · Bureau of Immigration

What an accredited consultancy does at the Bureau of Immigration

The Bureau of Immigration accredits the firms that file on your behalf, at ₱5,000 for a new accreditation and ₱3,000 for renewal, with a cash bond assessed on the same slip. The fee buys counter access, not a decision, and the public list is the part of the claim you can check yourself.

A consultancy that wants to file at the Bureau of Immigration on a client's behalf cannot simply turn up. The Bureau accredits the firm first, and it publishes the price: ₱5,000 for a new accreditation, ₱3,000 for renewal, plus a cash bond assessed at the same counter. The page carrying those figures states that the fees were updated on 06 March 2014, which is the reason to confirm the amount at the Accreditation Unit rather than budget from a blog post.

What the application involves

Four documents are listed: the Application Form for Liaison Officers and Representatives; a checklist with the complete documentary requirements; a separate checklist for renewal; and an Affidavit of Undertaking. The sequence runs through the BI Accreditation Unit in Rooms 202-204 on the second floor of the main office, where the Order of Payment Slip for the accreditation fee and the cash bond is issued. Payment is at Cashier 13. The application, the complete requirements and the official receipts go back to Room 204.

None of that is a visa form. The accreditation is a licence to transact, held by the firm, renewed on its own clock, and separate from every filing the firm later makes for a client.

Why the public list is the check that matters

The Bureau publishes accredited entities in categories: consultancies, corporations, government organizations, law offices, missionary and non-profit organizations, schools, and travel agencies. Read the list before paying a handling fee. Two cautions. Most of the category pages showed a date of 21 February 2025 when read on 5 November 2026, so a firm accredited since then may not yet appear. And a firm that works alongside an accredited consultancy is not the same as a firm on the list. Ask for the accreditation order number and its date, then check that name against the invoice.

Where accreditation stops

An accredited liaison officer can lodge and follow a file at the Bureau. That does not shorten the substantive requirements and it does not decide the outcome. A 9G file still needs the employer's petition, a published vacancy, and an Alien Employment Permit from DOLE at ₱6,000 for one year before the Bureau will act on it. The Bureau's own 9G fee is ₱10,130 for one year where the employer is outside the top 1,000 corporations, with ₱17,170 for two years and ₱24,210 for three, and those figures carry the same 06 March 2014 footnote.

The applicant still signs, still appears where the Bureau requires it, and still carries the refusal risk on the documents. An accredited intermediary reduces queue time and rejected lodgings. It does not turn a file that fails on substance into one that passes.

What to ask before you pay a handling fee

• The accreditation order number, its date, and whether the entity is accredited as a consultancy or as a corporation.
• Whether the liaison officer handling your file is the one named on the application form filed with the Bureau.
• Who signs the joint letter request on a 9G, because the Bureau asks for the employer and the employee, not the agent.
• Which agency fees you pay directly and which the firm advances, and when the official receipts are handed over.

LPP is not on the Bureau's list of accredited entities and does not hold accreditation. It prepares the document set, the sequence and the timetable; where the Bureau permits a representative filing, that filing is done by an accredited party. The distinction is worth stating plainly, because a directory that blurs it is selling access it does not have.