To all Foreign Student Applicants,
please be guided accordingly by the following guidelines:
A. CONTINUING STUDENTS
1. Continuing foreign students who are presently based in Iloilo City
• Please contact Mrs. Ella Grace J. Bolina, Liaison Officer for Foreign Students, regarding the status of your visa. You may contact her via email (foreign.registrar@cpu.edu.ph) or landline number 329 1971 local 2179.
• Submit a photocopy or scanned copy of all pages of passport to show travel history.
2. Continuing foreign students who are presently abroad or in their home countries
• If you desire to be in Iloilo City, comply with government requirements such as 14-day quarantine, RT-PCR test for COVID-19, and other government requirements upon arrival.
• If you desire to attend online classes, submit to Philippine time zone for online classes.
• Be physically present in the Philippines when situation and government regulations allow such as travel restrictions are lifted and visa issuances by the Department of Foreign Affairs resume
3. Continuing foreign students who are anywhere in the Philippines (except the Panay Island such as Aklan, Antique, Capiz, and the towns in Iloilo Province)
• Comply with government requirements such as 14-day quarantine, RT-PCR test for COVID-19, and other government requirements upon arrival in Iloilo City.
B. NEW STUDENTS
1. New foreign students who are presently based in Iloilo City
• Set an appointment with Mrs. Ella Grace J. Bolina, Liaison Officer for Foreign Students, with regards to foreign students’ requirements. You may contact her via email (foreign.registrar@cpu.edu.ph) or landline number 329 1971 local 2179.
• Submit a Barangay Clearance dated at least 15 days prior to date of enrolment.
2. New foreign students who are presently abroad or in their home countries
• If you desire to be in Iloilo City, comply with government requirements such as 14-day quarantine, RT-PCR test for COVID-19, and other government requirements upon arrival in Iloilo City.
• If you desire to attend online classes, submit to Philippine time zone for online classes.
• Be physically present in the Philippines when situation and government regulations allow such as travel restrictions are lifted and visa issuances by the Department of Foreign Affairs resume.
3. New foreign students who are anywhere in the Philippines (except the Panay Island such as Aklan, Antique, Capiz, and the towns in Iloilo Province)
• Comply with government requirements such as 14-day quarantine, RT-PCR test for COVID-19, and other government requirements upon arrival in Iloilo City.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
• Central Philippine University’s online classes are put in place in order to assist the students who could not be physically present on CPU campus due to the on-going travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• However, classes will revert to Flexible Learning Modality where face to face and online learning shall be utilized upon order from CHED that Flexible Learning is prescribed for higher education institutions. In this situation, students outside of Iloilo City shall be notified to come or report to CPU campus in order to be physically present for the face to face learning modality. In this regard, full online classes shall be discontinued, and blended learning shall apply.
• These guidelines apply to the post graduate programs (J.D., Graduate Programs, Medicine), Undergraduate Programs (College level), Senior High School, Junior High School, Elementary, and Kindergarten.
• Full online classes also apply to foreign students enrolled as groups from institutions where CPU has a Memorandum of Understanding and a Memorandum of Agreement with.
• Compliance with student visa requirements will resume upon orders from the Bureau of Immigration and approval from the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on COVID-19.