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."
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Revised Administrative Code are hereby repealed.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.