When you get your passport back with no visa and received a slip indicating “Your credentials have not established you as a qualified applicant for the visa category you have applied for.”, this means that your application for a temporary visitor’s visa has been declined. The reason/s may be any of the following:

• You did not submit completely the required basic and additional requirements.
• Even if you submitted all the required basic and additional requirements, the following were not proven: 

  - Strong economic or family ties to the home country 
  - Sufficient financial means to support yourself while staying in the Philippines 
  - Clear intention of honoring the status of the temporary visitor's visa 

• You should not be applying for a temporary visitor's visa but a visa of another category such as a student visa, a pre-arranged employment visa or a Special Non-immigrant Visa. It is important to know that the following purposes do not fall under the temporary visitor category: to study at a university, seminary, academy, college or school, approved for such foreign students by the Philippine Bureau of Immigration and Deportation; to assume employment or practice a vocation or profession in the Philippines or; to join a family member residing in the Philippines In these cases, the school/ potential employer/  family member should apply for an appropriate visa through the Philippine Bureau of Immigration and Deportation in the Philippines.
• Suspicion of misrepresentation
• Fraudulent supporting documents were submitted.
• There was a discrepancy between the data on the application form and other related supporting documents.
• Pending documents requested were not submitted within the 5 day waiting period.