Thursday, June 28, 2007

LAW 101: Who Are Non-immigrants

Aliens departing from any place outside the Philippines who are otherwise admissible and who qualify within one of the following categories, may be admitted as non- immigrants:

(a) A temporary visitor for business, pleasure or health reasons;

(b) A person in transit;

(c) A seaman serving as such on a vessel arriving at a Philippine port;

(d) An alien entitled to enter the Philippines pursuant to the provisions of a treaty of commerce and navigation (1) to carry on substantial trade between the Philippines and his country or (2) to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which he has invested or of an enterprise in which he is actively in the process of investing, and his dependents;

(e) An accredited official of a foreign government, and his dependents;

(f) A student, having means for his education and support in the Philippines, at least 15 years and enters to take up a course of study higher than high school; and

(g) An alien coming to pre-arranged employment, and his dependents.

An alien who is admitted as a non-immigrant cannot remain in the Philippines permanently.

Source:
Sec 9, COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 613. (The Philippine Immigration Act of 1940").
Sec. 99, R.A. 8424, “The National Internal Revenue Code Of The Philippines” (1997). E.O. 584, December 8, 2006.

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