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H. No. 1039 / 43 OG No. 7, 2571 (July, 1947)

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 135, June 14, 1947 ]

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.



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

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 nonimmigrant
 P5.00
(2) Passport visa for nonimmigrant
 20.00
(3) Reentry permit 20.00
Provided, however, That upon payment of a fee of P40, a resident alien may use his reëntry 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 nonquota 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.
SEC. 2. Subsections (x) and (y) of section fourteen hundred and fourteen of the Revised Administrative Code are hereby repealed.

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

Approved, June 14, 1947.
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