Does Timothy Jay Schwab have a worker's visa which would allow him to sell his books online in the Philippines? Apparently he needs one to sell books via Shopee and through his website Ophir Institute. Take the case of vlogger Penelope Pop.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1391613/vlogger-penelope-pop-faces-deportation-over-immigration-rules-breach |
Vlogger and social media influencer “Penelope Pop” is facing a deportation case for allegedly performing “gainful activity” without the necessary permit and visa.
In a charge sheet made public on Wednesday, Special Prosecutor Emmanuel Anthony Vera Jr. accused the internet celebrity of engaging in the online retail trade of lifestyle products such as notebooks, bags, and toiletries via www.theeveryday.ph without the required alien employment permit. Vera said Wang holds a special investor resident visa.
Penelope Pop is also known as Winnie Wong while her real name is Wang Yun-I/Yun-I Wang.
According to Vera, Wang’s involvement in the online retail business is a violation of the Commonwealth Act or the Philippine Immigration Act, which controls and regulates the immigration of foreign nationals in the country.
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Deputy Commissioner Tobias Javier has also ordered the inclusion of Wang in the immigration watchlist with remarks “Charged: engaging in gainful activity without a visa/permit.”
This issue is actually a little complicated. First of all Tim is selling books he has written through his website Ophir Institute. Second of all we know that it is HIS website and business because he admits in his biography that he and his wife founded the Ophir Institute together.
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| https://www.thegodculture.com/our-founder |
Timothy Jay Schwab, with his Filipina wife Anna, is the author of the books The Search for King Solomon's Treasure: The Lost Isles of Gold and the Garden of Eden, Instruction Edition: The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, and Ophir Philippines Coffee Table Book, all supported by a 300-page SOURCEBOOK of very credible sources no one can disprove. They have founded the Ophir Institute in the Philippines to restore this knowledge.
That information is not to be found on the Ophir Institute's "about" page. According to that page Tim and Anna are only partnering with the Ophir Institute.
Therefore, the Ophir Institute has proudly partnered with author, researcher, singer, former minister, and successful publisher Timothy Schwab and his wife, Anna Zamoranos-Schwab, a Filipina, who lead a team of researchers who tackled this topic. They published their findings on YouTube first with over 10 million views and now, even deeper research is available in book and eBook form. As of recent, this list of publishings includes, The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, INSTRUCTIONAL EDITION: The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, Ophir Philippines Coffee Table Book, and The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar.
Though we are a group, these authors' writings largely resemble the core of our mission to educate Filipinos about our lost history.
Normally one would call this a lie. But in this instance it is actually a shrewd business move. Now Tim is only tangentially connected to the Ophir Institute as a partner. They are using his writings as their core mission and they are selling those same writings. He and his wife Anna are merely a disinterested third party. Of course one will have to ignore that little bit about he and his wife founding the Ophir Institute which is a part of the biography he has posted across several pages including Amazon.
Part of the shrewdness of this move is Anna using the surname Schwab in both of those biographies. At the bottom of each page we read the following:
© 2020 by Ophir Institute. DTI Registered as Ophir Publishing.
Searching for that registration we find this:
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| https://bnrs.dti.gov.ph/search?keyword=ophir+publishing&criteria=exact&sort_by=business_name&sort_order=asc |
The Ophir Institute is registered as Ophir Publishing and is owned by one Anna Rose Gacayan Zamoranos. This person is not a Schwab. Officially there is no connection to Timothy Schwab or Anna Schwab in the registration.
However it should be noted that Ophirinsititue.com is registered in Florida, USA.
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| https://ph.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=ophirinstitute.com |
It is also hosted on the same server as TheGodCulture.com which is most definitely registered to Timothy Schwab from Florida, USA
Name Server: NS10.WIXDNS.NET
Why is a website which is registered to Timothy Schwab in Florida, USA registered as a business in the Philippines to a woman apparently unrelated to him?
From this we can draw two conclusions.
1. Timothy Jay Schwab does not need a worker's visa because he is not involved in any gainful activity in the Philippines via the internet because he does not own the company selling his books, Ophir publishing. Someone else does. The owner is not a Schwab and appears to have no connections to Timothy though her name is suspiciously similar to the name of the divorcee he married.
2. Because the owner of Ophir Publishing is not a Schwab it cannot be said with any certainty that Tim, as the brains behind both the God Culture and the Ophir Institute and the author of several books being sold by the Ophir Institute, is conspiring with his wife to circumvent Philippine law on a technicality so he can sell his books without having to procure the proper visa.
Of course if both of those conclusions are true then we must also conclude that Tim is not making any money from selling his books online in the Philippines. Is that a realistic conclusion? More importantly why is there all this chicanery as regards who owns what? We see have seen this same nonsense in his trademark registrations where ALL of his God Culture related materials are registered to an address in Florida.
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| https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-god-culture-past-and-future-projects.html |
But Tim has not lived in Florida since at least 2019. So, why is he registering everything to Angie Myers in Boca Raton, Florida? Who is this lady? She is Tim's former employee. See the link under the picture for more information.
I suppose it all makes sense though. Tim is dishonest in his books and videos telling flat out lies about Philippine history, ancient maps, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible Canon, and the divinity of the Holy Spirit among so many other things. It would only be consistent for Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture to not be above board in his business practices.
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