Ronaldo Alea Geron (born January 4, 1963) is the Commissioner of the
Bureau of Immigration of the Philippines. Geron was appointed on January 6, 2016, by President
Benigno S. Aquino III
Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III (; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), also known as Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. The son of ...
. Prior to being appointed as Commissioner, he was the Deputy
Executive Secretary
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for Finance and Administration of the Office of the President. A lawyer by profession, he is a graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Law.
Geron has been in government for over 20 years. Before joining the national government, Geron was provincial administrator and provincial board member of
Batangas
Batangas, officially the Province of Batangas ( tl, Lalawigan ng Batangas ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region on Luzon. Its capital is the city of Batangas, and is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and La ...
province.
Geron was appointed to replace Siegfred Mison, who was subject of a
National Bureau of Investigation misconduct enquiry at the time.
Immediately after taking office, Geron created the Bureau of Immigration's Integrity Management Committee and identified
human trafficking
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as a priority for his administration.
Geron's administration imposed new rules requiring the screening of foreigners in the Philippines. In April 2016, Geron ordered a manhunt for 600 illegal foreigners residing in the country who had been ordered to leave.
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Living people
1963 births
21st-century Filipino politicians
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