Section 29Executive Order No. 5427, of August 20, 1930 of the President of the United States, entitled "Waiver or Reduction of Application and Visa Fees for Nonimmigrants.", Sec./Art. 29

(a) The following classes of aliens shall be excluded from entry into the Philippines:

1. Idiots or insane persons and persons who have been insane.

2. Persons afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, or epilepsy;

3. Persons who have been convicted of a crime in volving moral turpitude;

4. Prostitutes, or procurers, or persons coming for any immoral purposes ;

5. Persons likely to become a public charge;

6. Paupers, vagrants, and beggars;

7. Persons who practise polygamy or who believe in or advocate the practice of polygamy;

8. Persons who believe in or advocate the over throw by force and violence of the Government of the Philippines, or of constituted law and authority, or who dis believe in or are opposed to organized government, or who advocate the assault or assasination of public officials because of their office, or who advocate or teach principles, theories, or ideas contrary to the Constitution of the Philippines or advocate or teach the unlawful destruction of property, or who are members of or affiliated with any organization entertaining or teaching such doctrines;

9. Persons over fifteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read printed matter in ordinary use in any languge selected by the alien, but this provision shall not apply to the grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, wife, husband or child of a Philippine citizen or of an alien lawfully resident in the Philippines;

10. Persons who are members of a family accompanying an excluded alien, unless in the opinion of the Commissioner of Iimiigration no hardship would result from their admission;

11. Persons accompanying an excluded person who is helpless from mental or physical disability or infancy, when the protection or guardianship of such accompanying person or persons is required by the excluded person, as shall be determined by the Commissioner of Immigration;

12. Children under fifteen years of age, unaccompanied or not coming to a parent, except that any such children may be admitted to the discretion of the Commis sioner of Immigration, if otherwise admissible;

13. Stowaways, except that any stowaway may be admitted in the discretion of the Commissioner of Immigration, if otherwise admissible;

14. Persons coming to perform unskilled manual labor in pursuance of a promise or offer of employment, expressed or implied, but this provision shall not apply to persons bearing nonquota immigration visas authorized by section twenty of this Act;

15. Persons who within one year prior to the date of application for admission have been excluded or de ported from the Philippines, but this provision mav be waived in the discretion of the Commissioner of Immigration;

16. Persons who have been removed from the Philippines at the expense of the Government of the Philippines, as indigent aliens, under the provisions of section forty-three of this Act, and who have not obtained the consent of the Board of Commissioners to apply for readmission; and

17. Persons not properly documented for admission as may be required under the provisions of this Act.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the Commissioner of Immigration, in his discretion, may permit to enter any alien properly documented, who is subject to exclusion under this section, but who is -

(1) An alien lawfully resident in the Philippines who is returning from a temporary visit abroad.

(2) An alien seeking admission into the Philippines may be required to testify under oath on matters relating to his admissibility. The burden of proof shall be upon such alien to establish that he is not subject to exclusion under any provision of the immigration laws.

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