Around 6,000 foreign workers are expected to leave the Philippines before the year-end deadline for the ban on POGOs, the Bureau of Immigration announced on Monday.

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Monday encouraged foreign employees of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGO) to comply with the government’s call to leave the country, especially those who have families here.

Foreign workers of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) should leave on or before Dec. 31 if some of them desire to return and see their children and their Filipino spouses, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Monday,