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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 2021
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 2021 -
RECOGNIZING THE ADVENTIST INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES
AS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER, GRANTING IT
CERTAIN PREROGATIVES CONDUCIVE TO ITS GROWTH AS SUCH, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
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WHEREAS,
the Philippines is committed to a future which is closely tied with the
future of Asia, and is annually attracting tens of thousands of
international students of the region to its institutions of higher
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WHEREAS, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, after seven decades of
operating educational institutions from the elementary to the graduate
level in the Philippines, is taking the steps to establish a non-stock,
non-profit educational institution under existing laws of the
Philippines, for the purpose of offering high quality education at the
graduate level uniquely designed to meet the rapidly growing needs of
the Church for highly qualified personnel in all of the Asia-Pacific
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WHEREAS, since 1967 the Seventh-day Adventist Church has been offering
graduate level education with the proper authorization from the
Philippine government, and has served with some other countries from
the Asia-Pacific area, thereby gaining invaluable international
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WHEREAS, the Seventh-day Adventist Church wishes at this time to
operate in the Philippines an educational institution of full
international character and dimension that would enable it to more
effectively meet its growing needs in all the Asia-Pacific area, under
the name of "Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies,
Inc." (AIIAS).
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
decree and order:cralaw:red
Section 1. The "Adventist International Institute of
Advanced Studies" as a graduate educational institution of
international character shall be classified and treated by the Ministry
of Education, Culture and Sports as a foreign school of special
character, with an international student body, faculty, management
composition and control, funding support, programs, curricular
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Section 2. Scholars, trainees, participants,
students, fellows or professors who come to the Philippines under the
auspices of theIAS shall be allowed entry as special non-immigrants
under Section 47 (a) (2) of the Philippine Immigration Act of 1940, as
amended, fee from the payment of visa and immigration fees; provided,
however, that such persons are holders of valid passports, are
otherwise admissible, and there is no derogatory information against
them.
Section 3. The Minister of Education, Culture and
Sports in coordination with the other Government agencies concerned,
shall issue the necessary implementing rules to carry into effect the
purpose of this Decree.
Section 4. All laws, decrees, orders, rules or
regulations, or parts thereof, inconsistent with this Decree are hereby
repealed or modified accordingly.
This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 31st day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-six.
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