Living in the Corruption: Nothing like the sobering experience of getting your NBI clearance.B
NBI Clearance. National Bureau of Investigation, established as the Philippine equivalent to the FBI (its so bad it can't be counted as a copy).
YEAH RIGHT!!! From 3 days to now 7-12!!
1 hour in Megamall. According to the NBI website you only need your old copy to be renewed. I have 13 year old NBI clearance sheet back when I was 15 for travel to the USA. I tried to follow the instructions of the website. Asking questions is great and all but in ALL the government services this one is the MOST understaffed.
Carriedo. Suffice to say, DON'T listen to the FIXERS. Luckily I didn't, although who wouldn't be tempted. They hawk papers that don't mean shit and you can buy a BLACK ballpen on your way to carriedo (but never there).
THE REAL Step 1. Line up to PAY the P20 entrance fee. Its just so obvious that the People's money is SOOO pocketed and pilvered by these people RUNNING this JUDICIAL arm of the government. The fact that you have to PAY for what should be COVERED by what you are GOING to pay for the clearance is just no hiding the pretense of corruption.
Step 2. Cross the bridge and Give the stub to this guy who will stamp it and give you a form to fill.
Step 3. Fill it up while you line up to pay it in their SO CALLED: Step 1. Bring 1 P100 bill and 3 P5 coins to go through the electronic pay line which is shorter (but I went with the person to person instead).
Step 4. Data Check, which is really a person checking if you put all the relevant info on your paper.
Step 5. QUICK-SEARCH, another Data Check but this time searching your name for hits. This is a tricky line. There are wandering Public Servants who are supposed to guard the line BUT instead they don't and infact watch idly as people cut, sneak in, and all sort of crazy shit. Your better off shouting "STEP TRI ?!" Tempers Flare and people accuse others of Cutting. I was part of a really really long line, it winded twice and I was confronted by a inflamed man that I was cutting. All I said in my defense was, "SAAN ang Bantay" ("where are the ones who are supposed to guard").
in Tagalog I said : "all of us lined up, some of us lined up through lines Two lines long and we waited paitently even when we saw people cutting. THis is not our fault, its the guards. Where are they, they are paid to keep things in line"
Heck, a TAHO vendor paid his way to sell his wares to the people lining up.
At the end of the line, the lady just types your name on the computer and scribbles something on your paper.
Step 6. Picture taking, this is amazingly fast and simple. Do what the other romans are doing and you'll be fine.
Step 7. Finger printing, have you P2 ready for the wippie and ask around because some lines are not taking any more people and the Last person may be too shy/stupid to say that to the people lining up behind them.
Step 8. Submit it all, only to realize that you will be raffled for either being done for today or next week. Guess which one I got!
Step 9. If your lucky or a week has passed, I don't know what will happen next.
These are our great Public Servants who makes all our lives a little more interesting every day. Especially now with the Scandal surrounding the president.
YEAH RIGHT!!! From 3 days to now 7-12!!
1 hour in Megamall. According to the NBI website you only need your old copy to be renewed. I have 13 year old NBI clearance sheet back when I was 15 for travel to the USA. I tried to follow the instructions of the website. Asking questions is great and all but in ALL the government services this one is the MOST understaffed.
Carriedo. Suffice to say, DON'T listen to the FIXERS. Luckily I didn't, although who wouldn't be tempted. They hawk papers that don't mean shit and you can buy a BLACK ballpen on your way to carriedo (but never there).
THE REAL Step 1. Line up to PAY the P20 entrance fee. Its just so obvious that the People's money is SOOO pocketed and pilvered by these people RUNNING this JUDICIAL arm of the government. The fact that you have to PAY for what should be COVERED by what you are GOING to pay for the clearance is just no hiding the pretense of corruption.
Step 2. Cross the bridge and Give the stub to this guy who will stamp it and give you a form to fill.
Step 3. Fill it up while you line up to pay it in their SO CALLED: Step 1. Bring 1 P100 bill and 3 P5 coins to go through the electronic pay line which is shorter (but I went with the person to person instead).
Step 4. Data Check, which is really a person checking if you put all the relevant info on your paper.
Step 5. QUICK-SEARCH, another Data Check but this time searching your name for hits. This is a tricky line. There are wandering Public Servants who are supposed to guard the line BUT instead they don't and infact watch idly as people cut, sneak in, and all sort of crazy shit. Your better off shouting "STEP TRI ?!" Tempers Flare and people accuse others of Cutting. I was part of a really really long line, it winded twice and I was confronted by a inflamed man that I was cutting. All I said in my defense was, "SAAN ang Bantay" ("where are the ones who are supposed to guard").
in Tagalog I said : "all of us lined up, some of us lined up through lines Two lines long and we waited paitently even when we saw people cutting. THis is not our fault, its the guards. Where are they, they are paid to keep things in line"
Heck, a TAHO vendor paid his way to sell his wares to the people lining up.
At the end of the line, the lady just types your name on the computer and scribbles something on your paper.
Step 6. Picture taking, this is amazingly fast and simple. Do what the other romans are doing and you'll be fine.
Step 7. Finger printing, have you P2 ready for the wippie and ask around because some lines are not taking any more people and the Last person may be too shy/stupid to say that to the people lining up behind them.
Step 8. Submit it all, only to realize that you will be raffled for either being done for today or next week. Guess which one I got!
Step 9. If your lucky or a week has passed, I don't know what will happen next.
These are our great Public Servants who makes all our lives a little more interesting every day. Especially now with the Scandal surrounding the president.
If you don't feel like blowing or killing someone after this experience there is something wrong with you.
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