Philippine Immigration Act of 1940

June 14, 1947

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 135

AN ACT TO AMEND SUBSECTION (a) OF SECTION FORTY-TWO OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO CONTROL AND REGULATE THE IMMIGRATION OF ALIENS INTO THE PHILIPPINES," AND TO REPEAL SUBSECTIONS (x) AND (y) OF SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE

SECTION 1. Subsection (a) of section forty-two of Commonwealth Act Numbered Six hundred and thirteen is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 42. (a) In addition to the documentary stamp required by existing law, there shall be collected and paid into the Philippine Treasury the following fees for services, as indicated, for aliens seeking to enter the Philippines under the provisions of this Act:

(1)	Executing application for passport visa
	for non-immigrant	P5.00
(2)	Passport visa for non-immigrant	20.00
(3)	Reentry permit	20.00

Provided, however, That upon payment of a fee of P40, a resident alien may use his reentry permit, during a period of one year, regardless of the number of trips made by him to and from foreign ports.

(4)	Extension of reentry permit	P10.00
(5)	Executing application for immigration visa	5.00
(6)	Immigration visa	20.00
(7)	Legalization of residence	50.00
(8)	Petition for preference quota status	10.00
(9)	Petition for non-quota status for immigrant
	coming to prearranged employment	20.00
(10)	Duplicate certificate of residence	40.00
(11)	Duplicate reentry permit	40.00

Provided, however, That any alien who shall fail to legalize his residence within the period of one year provided in section 41 (a) of this Act, but whose application will have been accepted by the Commissioner of Immigration after the lapse of one year, shall pay for the legalization of his residence the sum of sixty pesos."

SECTION 2. Subsections (x) and (y) of section fourteen hundred and fourteen of the Revised Administrative Code are hereby repealed. cdt

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 14, 1947

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 43, No. 7, p. 2571 in July 1947