Establishment of alien registration requirements, 7 January 1988.
On 7 January 1988, the Immigration Commissioner of the Philippines announced that all temporary or permanent aliens resident in the Philippines were required to register with the Commission on Immigration and Deportation in order to legalize their stay in the country.  Those who failed to register by a March deadline were subject to immediate deportation.  The Commission also set a P500,000 reward for those giving information on the whereabouts of overstaying or undesirable aliens.  Effective 21 November 1988, President Corazon Aquino ordered the alien legalization program to be suspended.  See Manila Radio Veritas, 18 November 1988; Foreign Broadcast Information Service, FBIS-EAS-88-224, 21 November 1988, p. 41.
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