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Article Iv - Citizenship Citizenship
Article Iv - Citizenship Citizenship
Citizenship
- a legal relationship between a person and a country
- right to live, work, vote, and pay taxes
Nationality
- country where you came from
Note: A person can be a national of one country and a citizen of another country.
Effects of naturalization:
1. The legitimate minor children of the naturalized father become Filipinos as well.
2. The wife also becomes a Filipino citizen, if she does not have any disqualification which would bar
her from being naturalized.
Marriage of Filipino with an alien:
General Rule: The Filipino RETAINS Philippine citizenship
Exception: If, by their act or omission they are deemed, under the law, to have renounced it.
Loss of Citizenship
1. Voluntarily (Expatriation)
a. Naturalization in another country
b. Renunciation of citizenship
i. Voluntarily obtaining a foreign passport
c. Subscribing to an oath of allegiance
2. Involuntarily
a. Cancellation of certificate of naturalization by the court
b. Deserter of Ph armed forces
Re-acquisition of citizenship
Natural-born Filipinos who are deemed to have lost their citizenship may re-acquire the same via
repatriation proceedings. This involves taking an oath of allegiance and filing the same with the civil
registry.
Dual Citizenship
- a citizen of two countries at the same time
Note: US - Jus Soli; Ph - Jus Sanguinis