If you go abroad and don’t play by the rules, you may find you end up like this American ended up, deported, banned, and blacklisted forever. Expats need to watch out for things, beating your wife, overstaying your visa, opening an illegal business in an immoral industry is just beggin to be deported. Use your head and you can avoid a lot of problems. Jut check out this article:
American Deported from the Philippines
Friday, January 20, 2006
Overstaying American falls
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) 7 discovered a mail-order-bride business in Cebu City with the arrest last Jan. 17 of an overstaying American national who also allegedly faked his marriage to a Cebuana three years ago.
BI 7 Director Geronimo Rosas said the suspect, Woody Paul Petrea Sr., 39, of Georgia, USA, was arrested inside his Internet cafe in Barangay Camputhaw, Cebu City.
Petrea is detained at the immigration jail in Mandaue City pending his voluntary deportation at 12:45 p.m. tomorrow. Rosas allowed his voluntary deportation to spare the government from buying his plane ticket.
Immigration Special Prosecutor Serafin A. Abellon investigated him for working without a Department of labor and Employment permit and using his wife, Jan Debbie Pernia, as a dummy in his illegal business.
Under oath
Petrea admitted under oath that he married Pernia on Jan. 14, 2003 in Cebu City before Judge Rosales.
But immigration officers wondered how it happened when he arrived in Cebu on Jan. 24, 2003 yet, or 10 days later. He extended his stay and became an overstaying alien.
Immigration authorities have yet to determine if the Judge Rosales mentioned by Petrea is Judge Edgemelo Rosales of Municipal Trial Court in Cities Branch 8.
Rosas said he will recommend for the blacklisting of Petrea for being an undesirable alien. Pernia’s allegation that they separated two months ago because she could no longer bear being a battered wife can support their case against the American.
Petrea also admitted he and Pernia processed the visa and marriages of aliens who have Filipino girlfriends or fiancees in the Philippines and collect at least US$200 (P11,000) per client. While their business permit issued by Cebu City Hall is under the name Pointman Cebu Internet Cafe, the signboard is Cebu Tours.Com.
Consultant
Cebu City Councilor Arsenio Pacana said he conferred with his legal consultant to study what the City Council can do to prevent similar businesses here.
“We will look into how the mail-order-bride business is being operated by Petrea and what damage it brought to Cebu,” Pacaña said.
In 2002, the Cebu Provincial Board passed a resolution asking Congress to immediately pass the Anti-Trafficking of Women and Minors Bill because the mail-order-bride industry reduces Filipino into mere sex commodities. (EOB)
Well, he’s back! It didn’t take him more than few months to come back. But allways the same Paul Petrea except that now he goes by “Woody Petrea” “Woody Paul Petrea” Woody Paul Petrea SR and many other ID’s. There is a blog up there where you can learn that the 2006 incident wasn’t his first. Reading from the Blog:
” Tybee Man Drives 10 Miles With Wife Clinging to Car
By TOM HOSE”
“A Tybee Island man drove his car early 10 mites with his wife dinging to the car’s luggage rack after he drove off with the couple’s child, authorities said. Woody Paul Petrea, 25, was arrested Monday near Fort Ogtethorpe in north Georgia. Authorities said he drove with his estranged wife, Teresa Petrea, hanging on to the top of the trunk of the vehicle. “I don’t know how she managed to hang on,” Catoosa County Sheriff Phil Summers said Wednesday “Motorists said he was swerving, trying to sling her off the back at 90 mph If he had, we would have working a death. Luckily she managed to hang on.” In a telephone interview Wednesday night, Petrea said he never drove faster than the speed limit and that he had stopped the car four times to ask his wife to get off the car He also said the incident covered lass than 10 miles.”I knew that she wasn’t going to fall off because I wasn’t speeding;’ he said, explaining that his wife was able to stand on the car’s rear bumper white holding on to the rack. “I did not threaten her and I did not hurt her in any way, shape or form.” The incident began at a motel in a Chattanooga, Tenn., suburb where the couple had agreed to meet At the motel, Petrea took his 15-month-old son, got into his car with him and started off, authorities said.”She dove onto the back of the car and grabbed onto the luggage rack anticipating that he would stop the car,” Instead, Petrea headed out to Interstate 75, where he got in the southbound lanes and crated into Georgia. Several motorists noticed the woman hanging from the car, and a driver of a pickup puled up alongside the car. Petrea
swerved and struck the pickup truck, authority said. Petrea said Wednesday that the pickup swerved Into his car. Summers said that after the accident, Petrea got off the Interstate and went west on highway toward Port Ogle A Catoosa county deputy passed the
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vehicle, and when he noticed the woman hanging from the car, he turned around behind the car and tried to pull it over. Two miles later
Petrea pulled over, Summers said. My hands were so cold, but I knew that if I let go I’d die/’ Mrs. Petrea said. “I Just knew I couldn’t
let him get away with my baby.” “I realise that I was in the wrong, but there are some things I’m not guilty of,” Petrea said.
Petrea said his wife took the child without his permission on Jan. 5 and that be had not seen or beard from ton until last week.
“All I wanted was to have my son for two weeks,” he said. Petrea, the brother of Thunderbolt Mayor James Petrea, was charged with reckless conduct, leaving
the scene of an accident and several traffic violation He was re leased on a $6,000 bond.