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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 130 -
GUIDELINES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 298
A.
Period for Submission —
All applications must be filed within three (3) months after the date
of effectivity of the Decree.
B. Persons Qualified —
1.
Chinese nationals who entered the Philippines
legally from January 1, 1947 to December 31, 1953, as non-immigrants
under the Philippine Immigration Act of 1940, as amended, whose only
violation of immigration law is overstaying;
2. Chinese
nationals who entered the Philippines from
January 1, 1947 to December 31, 1953, as non-immigrants classified as
above who have been able to change the category of their admission to
special non-immigrants under Sec. 47 of the Act; and
3. Children of
Nos. 1 and 2 above who were born in
the Philippines who are likewise non-immigrants.
C. Procedure —
1.
Each applicant must file individual applications
in triplicate with the following enclosures:
a)
Valid Chinese Nationalist Passport with valid
entry visa to Taiwan;
b) Police
Clearance. (Not required for children under
14 years of age.)
c) Evidence of
financial support.
d)
Medical certificate to the effect that he is not
suffering from any of the diseases mentioned in Sec. 29 of the
Philippine Immigration Act of 1940, as amended, issued by government
physicians designated by the Commissioner of Immigration and
Deportation.
e) Photostatic copies of
—
1.
Cash and surety bonds undertaking in appropriate
cases;
2. Certificate
of payment of service fees in
appropriate cases;
3. Alien
Registration Certificates; and
4. Certificate
of Residence as non-immigrant.
f) Official receipt showing payment of the application fee of P10.00.
2.
The applicants should hold themselves readily
available for interview by the Commissioner of Immigration and
Deportation or his representative;
3. The
application and enclosures shall be received
and chronologically numbered by the Records Section , as much as
possible, numbering consecutively applications of members of the same
family;
4. The Records
Section shall forward the application
and enclosures to the Nonimmigrant Control Section .
5. The
nonimmigrant Control Section shall attach the
application and enclosure to previous records on file and forward all
documents to the Intelligence Division;
6. The
Intelligence Division after derogatory check
shall forward the record to the Commissioner of Immigration and
Deportation;
7. The
Commissioner of Immigration and Deportation
shall determine who among the applicants may be entitled to reside in
the Philippines as quota immigrants, either preference or
non-preference, allotting quota numbers chargeable to the unused quota
for the years 1949 and the years thereafter;
8. The
Commissioner of Immigration and Deportation
shall issue upon payment of corresponding statutory fees, to the
applicants eligible for readmission, certificates or letters addressed
to the proper Philippine Consular officials abroad, to the effect that
quota immigration visas may be issued to said applicants;
9. Within the
period of three (3) months after the
approval of the application, the applicant shall leave the country or
he may be again required to establish his entitlement to the benefits
of the Decree;
10. Within the
period of three (3) months the
unsuccessful applicants shall leave the Philippines voluntarily or they
shall be apprehended and deported; and
11. All
Chinese nationals who are qualified to submit
their applications under the decree but who fail to do so within the
period allowed for submission shall be permitted to leave the country
voluntarily; or shall be apprehended and deported.
Done in the city of Manila, this 19th day of September, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-three.
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