---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1184a"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1184a"
heading: "Philippine Traders as nonimmigrants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1184a"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter II — Immigration"
  - "Part II — Admission Qualifications for Aliens; Travel Control of Citizens and Aliens"
---

# §1184a. Philippine Traders as nonimmigrants


Upon a basis of reciprocity secured by agreement entered into by the President of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) and the President of the Philippines, a [national](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-21) of the Philippines, and the [spouse](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-35) and children of any such [national](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-21) if accompanying or following to join him, may, if otherwise eligible for a visa and if otherwise admissible into the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) under the Immigration and Nationality Act [[8 U.S.C. 1101](/usc/8/1101.md) et seq.] (66 Stat. 163), be considered to be classifiable as a nonimmigrant under [section 101(a)(15)(E)](/usc/8/101.md) of said Act if entering solely for the purposes specified in subsection (i) or (ii) of said section.


## Source credit

(June 18, 1954, ch. 323, 68 Stat. 264.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Immigration and Nationality Act, referred to in text, is act June 27, 1952, ch. 477, 66 Stat. 163, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1101 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section was not enacted as a part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.