EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 186

: Executive Order No. 186 further amends Executive Order No. 408, dated November 9, 1960, to provide a more expeditious system and simpler forms for encouraging and facilitating foreign tourist travel to the Philippines.
: It amends paragraph 5 to allow visitors or transients staying not more than seven days to enter the Philippines without applying for or holding a Philippine transit visa, allowing them to debark and re-embark on vessels.
: The Secretary of Foreign Affairs has the authority to exclude nationals of any country from the transit visa exemption if their entry is contrary to existing policy or not in the public interest.
: Visitors are exempt from holding a transit visa if they stay for a period of not more than seven (7) days.
: Yes, visitors are allowed to re-embark on the same or any other vessels after debarking in the Philippines.
: Immigration authorities on duty are required to issue appropriate landing card permits to visitors who are under the transit visa exemption, and such visitors must turn in the permits upon departure.
: No, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs may exclude nationals of any country from the provision if their entry is against policy or public interest.
: Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Executive Order No. 186 as President of the Philippines.
: The President exercises the powers vested in him by law to amend the previous executive orders.