IATF studying calls to allow foreign partners of Filipinos to enter country

The government’s COVID-19 task force is studying calls to allow foreign partners of Filipinos to enter the country.

At a news conference in Boracay on Monday, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said a technical working group of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) is reviewing the matter.

“Sinasabi po ng mga fiancé at totoo naman na bagama’t hindi pa sila nakakasal eh dapat naman hindi pinaghihiwalay ang nagmamahalan,” Roque said. “Iyan naman po ay pinag-aaralan.”

Roque also vowed to raise it in the next IATF meeting.

The government currently allows foreign spouses and children of Filipinos as well as foreign parents of minor Filipino nationals, including children with special needs regardless of age, to enter the country amid the pandemic.

Foreigners with permanent resident or immigrant visas were also exempted from the inbound travel restrictions. -NB, GMA News