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Chang Yung Fa vs. Gianzon 97 Phil 913

CHANG YUNG FA, ET AL., petitioners-appellants, vs. HONORABLE ROBERTO A. GIANZON, in his capacity as Acting Secretary of Justice and HONORABLE VICENTE DE LA CRUZ, as Commissioner of Immigration, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-7785 | 1955-11-25

D E C I S I O N

BAUTISTA ANGELO, J.:

This is a petition for declaratory judgment filed in the Court of First Instance of Manila wherein petitioners prayed that the court declare if the Commissioner of Immigration has a right to limit their period of stay in the Philippines as immigrants and if Opinion No. 314, series of 1952, of the Secretary of Justice on the same subject matter is valid and constitutional.

The Government in its answer set up as special defense that petitioners were admitted to the Philippines under Section 13 of Commonwealth Act No. 613 with the express condition that their stay shall be not more than two years; that this...