Entry and Stay of Foreign Students in the Philippines (I)

    Klaus

February 11, 2008 by Klaus  
Filed under Klaus

The processing takes time. You need a lot of patience. The check list of the requirements is awesome and changes more or less every few months.

These are the informations I got from the Bureau of Immigration:

a) Five (5) copies of Personal History Statement (PHS) forms duly accomplished by the student-applicant. PHS forms may be secured from the Philippine Embassy or the school of his choice;

b) Original and photocopy of Transcript of Records;

c)Affidavit of Support from abroad accompanied by a bank statement;

d) Data page of passport;

e) Certificate of Good Moral Character from the School Head of Institution where he or she last attended.

How to go on then?

The school, having been satisfied that the academic requirements are complied with, issues a NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE.

School indorses a copy of the Notice of Acceptance together with the Personal History Statement and authenticated Transcript of Records to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), copy furnished the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).

The DFA, Manila, approves applications and authorizes the Philippine foreign establishment abroad concerned on the issuance of a student visa. Upon approval of the issuance of a student visa, the DFA, Manila also informs the school concerned on action taken, copy furnished CHED.

A prospective secondary graduate foreign student (at least 18 years of age) WHILE ABROAD applies in writing for admission directly to any Philippine school of his or her choice should submit the following documents, DULY AUTHENTICATED BY THE PHILIPPINE EMBASSY IN HIS HOME COUNTRY.

(To be continued!)

About the Author:  Klaus is from Germany, but has been living in the Philippines since the late 1990’s. Klaus is a journalist by trade, having written for a number of newspapers, studied also Publishing House Management and Marketing and has also been a Radio Host here in the Philippines.