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         Your record means nothing in getting a tourist visa.  If your wife is a citizen of the Philippines  or a duel citizen she can enter the country with you and you get balikbayan status stamped  on your passport.  You can stay a year without dealing with immigration.

@dclausen148 Foreigners who have committed criminal acts are likewise blacklisted. This includes prostitutes, human traffickers, drug dealers and addicts, sex offenders, kidnappers, polygamists, robbers, murders, arsonists, tax evaders, and anyone who has committed a crime involving moral turpitude.

Black-market merchants and profiteers will also be blacklisted, unless they have resided in the Philippines for ten years or married a citizen before committing the crime.

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Drug trafficking is an exclusion ground in section 29 of the immigration law.  I would call or email the consulate to check if you need a waiver.  Would hate for you to buy tickets and then you get turned around. 

I would apply for a visa at the nearest consulate. If they give you a visa it might be good to go.

@Hwydaddy

That is really unfair and crazy that. If you are polygamist you could be blacklisted that shouldn't be a crying.

@Hwydaddy

Being a polygamist should not be grounds for you to be blacklisted from the country comma it is very, very unfair

          Worth testing.  I was convicted of a felony in Pennsylvania in 1970, never came up on  4 different entries as a tourist in 1994, 2003. 2008, 2014.  Also entered 4 times as balikbayan 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, never discussed

@mugteck

Was the felony a cimt or one of the ones listed as excludable?   As long as they never ask on paper or in an interview then they can't say you committed fraud.  They had me run my prints when I submitted to consulate in the states for my 13a and the form had questions on arrests/convictions but it was very recent. 

    @Hwydaddy
Being a polygamist should not be grounds for you to be blacklisted from the country comma it is very, very unfair
   

    -@laxondavid

It can be argued that, for a Christian culture, polygamy is amongst the highest of crimes of moral turpitude. Governments, in response to citizens sensibilities, have every right to ban polygamists from entering as they would ban bigamists (same crime). Mormons and Moslems have traditionally practiced it but not legally in the USA. However, I think in the Philippines if you are a resident of a Bangsamoro region under Sharia law, polygamy is legal (4 wives max.)  as Sharia law trumps national laws there. Although it is an affront to women (and probably unaffordable for most expats here 😂), I see nothing wrong with it when practiced by consenting adults and that would have to exclude the 13 year old "wives" found in some of these cults and religions.

             Your record means nothing in getting a tourist visa.  If your wife is a citizen of the Philippines  or a duel citizen she can enter the country with you and you get balikbayan status stamped  on your passport.  You can stay a year without dealing with immigration.
   

    -@mugteck

I hear what you are saying but, upon entry, don't you have mark "no" where they ask if you have been convicted of a felony? Just asking, not sure if we had to sign to that on our customs entry form. Also I have heard that,even if you will not get caught it is still illegal and consequences are severe if get caught for some reason (I don't know what...perhaps as a result of a severe traffic accident etc..

         I do not remember being asked any such questions.

             I do not remember being asked any such questions.
   

    -@mugteck

I do not recall if that is asked or not. Probably not. I cannot remember where I saw that and it may not even been on a Philippine form at all, now that I think of it. In the US it is asked on all sorts of forms. At the airport, I think they will let anyone in from visa waiver countries, without records check, for the 29-day tourist visa.