Section 20Sec./Art. 20

Establishment of a Shared Government Information System for Migration. - An inter-agency committee composed of the Department of Foreign Affairs and its attached agency, the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, the Department of Labor and Employment, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, the Department of Tourism, the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Immigration, the National Bureau of Investigation, and the National Statistics Office shall be established to implement a shared government information system for migration. The inter-agency committee shall initially make available to itself the information contained in existing data bases/ files. The second phase shall involve linkaging of computer facilities in order to allow free-flow data exchanges and sharing among concerned agencies.

The inter-agency committee shall convene to identify existing data bases which shall be declassified and shared among member agencies. These shared data bases shall initially include, but not be limited to, the following information:

a. Masterlists of Filipino migrant workers/overseas Filipinos classified according to occupation/job category, civil status, by country/state of destination including visa classification;

b. Inventory of pending legal cases involving Filipino migrant workers and other Filipino nationals, including those serving prison terms;

c. Masterlists of departing/arriving Filipinos;

d. Statistical profile on Filipino migrant workers/overseas Filipinos/tourists;

e. Blacklisted foreigners/undesirable aliens;

f. Basic data on legal systems, immigration policies, marriage laws and civil and criminal codes in receiving countries particularly those with large numbers of Filipinos;

g. List of labor and other human rights instruments where receiving countries are signatories;

h. A tracking system of past and present gender disaggregated cases involving male and female migrant workers; and

i. Listing of overseas posts which may render assistance to overseas Filipinos, in general, and migrant workers, in particular.