Exempt Passengers

Requirements

Overseas Filipino Workers going to their job sites

• If hired through POEA, the Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) serves as the Exemption Certificate and there is no need to apply for a TEC.

Filipino citizen who is a permanent resident of another country whose stay in the Philippines is less than one (1) year and is going back to their country of permanent residence 

• Copy of the page of your passport containing the stamp of last arrival in the Philippines
• a. Proof of permanent residence in foreign country (e.g. US Green card, Canadian Form 1000, etc.) plus copy of FRONT and BACK portions, or b. Valid Certification from the Philippine embassy / consulate indicating that the Filipino has resided uninterruptedly for a period of five (5) years in the foreign country without having been absent therefrom for more than six (6) months in any one year or appropriate stamps in the passport to prove such length of stay.

Foreign Diplomatic and Consular Officials and Members of their Staff

Certification from the Office of Protocol, Department of Foreign Affairs or their respective Embassy / Consulate

Officials, Consultants, Experts, and Employees of the United Nations (UN) Organization and its agencies

UN Passport or Certification of Employment from the UN office or its agency

NOTE: Dependents are also exempted if fare is paid for and certified by the UN. For dependents of employees of other UN agencies, a certification and proof from the organization / agency is required

United States (US) Military Personnel including dependents and other US nationals with fares paid for by the US government or on US Government-owned or chartered transport facilities

Government Transport Request (GTR) for a plane ticket or certification from the US Embassy that the fare is paid from the US Government funds

Crewmembers of airplanes flying international routes

Certification from the Civil Aeronautics Board that the crew member is joining his aircraft, indicating the crew member’s name, position, and location of aircraft

Philippine Foreign Service Personnel officially assigned abroad and their dependents

Certification to this effect from the Department of Foreign Affairs

Officials and Employees of the Philippine Government traveling on official business (excluding Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations)

Certified true copy of Travel Authority or Travel Order from the Department Secretary concerned to the effect that such officials / employees are traveling on official business

Grantees of foreign government funded trips

Proof that travel is funded or provided by a foreign government

Bona-fide Students with approved scholarships by appropriate government agency

Certification to this effect from concerned government agency

NOTE: “Student” is defined as a person attending formal classes in an educational institution for the purpose of taking up a course leading to a diploma, the duration of which is not less than one (1) year

Infants (Up to second birthday on date of travel)

In case the original passport cannot be presented, the original birth certificate and photocopy of ID page of passport

Personnel (and their dependents) of multinational companies with regional headquarters, but not engaged in business, in the Philippines

Certification to this effect from the Board of Investments

Those authorized by the President of the Republic of the Philippines for reasons of national interest

Written authorization from the Office of the President expressly entitling the passenger to travel tax exemption

As provided under R.A. 6768, Balikbayans whose stay in the Philippines is less than one (1) year

Identification pages of passport and stamps of last departure from and arrival in the Philippines, duration of which is at least one (1) year

Airline ticket used in traveling to the Philippines

As provided under R.A. 6768, family members of former Filipinos accompanying the latter

Foreign passport of former Filipino or other evidence of former Philippine Citizenship

Birth certificate or adoption papers of children and / or marriage contract of accompanying spouse