22 USC § 1281 - Omitted

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title: "22 USC § 1281 - Omitted"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
section_number: "1281"
section_name: "Omitted"
chapter_number: 15
chapter_name: "THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES"
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# § 1281. Omitted

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section, , , which provided that certain Philippine citizens be granted non-quota status, was omitted on authority of former  which nullified subchapter I of this chapter upon the expiration of the revised agreement between the United States and the Republic of the Philippines which occurred on .

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Philippine Traders as Nonimmigrants

Philippine traders as classifiable as nonimmigrants, see , Aliens and Nationality.

## Executive Documents

### Proc. No. 2696. Immigration Quota

Proc. No. 2696, , 11 F.R. 7517, , provided:

The annual quota for the Philippine Islands effective , for the remainder of the fiscal year ending , and for each fiscal year thereafter, has been determined in accordance with the law to be, and shall be, 100.

The immigration quota of 50 authorized by section 8(a)(1) of the Act approved , entitled “An Act to provide for the complete independence of the Philippine Islands, to provide for the adoption of a constitution and a form of government for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes” (; ; , Territories and Insular Possessions), which Act was accepted by concurrent resolution of the Philippine Legislature on , and which became effective on that date, will become inoperative on , the date the Government of the United States recognizes the independence of the Philippine Islands as a separate and self-governing nation.

The immigration quota assigned to the Philippine Islands is designed solely for purposes of compliance with the pertinent provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924 [section 145 et seq. of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality] and is not to be regarded as having any significance extraneous to this subject.