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Vicente Caoile, et al. vs. Martiniano P. Vivo, et al.

VICENTE CAOILE, SANTOS CAOILE and FELIPE CAOILE, petitioners-appellees, vs. MARTINIANO P. VIVO, as Acting Commissioner of Immigration, the Board of Commissioners of the Bureau of Immigration, and FELIX ENDENCIA, as Deportation Officer of the Bureau of Immigration, respondents-appellants.

G.R. No. L-27602 | 1983-10-15

D E C I S I O N


PLANA, J.:

These three related immigration cases - involving five aliens who have wrongfully managed to enter and remain in the Philippines since 1961 - exhibit the same factual background already delineated in Commissioner of Immigration vs. Fernandez, L-22696, May 29, 1964, 11 SCRA 184 and Commissioner of Immigration vs. Garcia, L-28082, decided on June 28, 1974, 57 SCRA 603. The decision in the latter case is the subject of a motion for reconsideration which will now be decided jointly with L-27602 and L-27603.

For convenience, a narration of the common background of these cases is in order.

On May 30, 1961 Samson...