ACTRESS-COMEDIAN Pokwang‘s estranged ex-partner, Lee O’Brian, was successfully deported by the Bureau of Immigration (BI), the agency announced on Thursday, April 11.
BI said the American national was officially taken out of the country last Monday, April 8.
“BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said that O’Brian was deported on April 8 on board a Philippine Airlines flight to San Francisco (in the United States) after the BI confirmed that he has no pending local case in the Philippines,” the BI stated.
The local agency affirmed that O’Brian stands no chance to re-enter the Philippines as he is now part of BI’s blacklist.
In 2023, Pokwang, whose legal name is Marietta Subong, filed a deportation case and cancellation of visa against her former partner, as O’Brian was operating in the country without proper permits, using only his tourist visa despite already staying in the Philippines for eight years.
In her filing, the actress-comedian declared that O’Brian “rendered work in different production companies without securing the required Department of Labor and Employment and BI permits.”
Despite filing a motion for reconsideration, BI denied O’Brian’s request.
Pokwang and O’Brian had been in a six-year relationship before confirming their separation in July 2022. They have one daughter, Maila. (Jessica Ann Evangelista © Philippine Daily Inquirer)
