Americans Get Filipino Citizenship

dwms07 · Sep 20, 2016

TheDude said: ↑

Which is why he said this...

He's persistent. If you were shuffling through resumes, this one would go on the keeper pile. Who would you rather have? Someone with a 10 year history of successes and failures willing to take this on with a minimal of expenses or someone just getting started and only doing this for the money and would bolt with the first non-payment? He's willing to put skin in the game.

You would be hard pressed to find someone with the combination of the experience, the means and the willingness to take this on. It's a great idea which would benefit many in this forum.

But you would also be hard pressed to get foreigners to pitch in $200. I had a conversation with someone the other day who pointed out that if you asked 100 foreigners for a beer and 100 women for sex, you would likely get more sex than beer. More likely would be to find two people who would donate 150K to the cause.
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dwms07 · Sep 20, 2016

You are 100% right. Dumb mistake to think anyone on this group had any class or money!

dwms07 · Sep 20, 2016

redhorse said: ↑

"Being a citizen would allow me run for local political office"
I believe that's incorrect. Even those legitimately holding dual citizenship under current Philippine laws must specifically renounce their foreign citizenship in order to run for office in the Philippines. And continuing to use a foreign passport, for example, would be a flag that the renunciation is invalid. But use of the foreign passport does NOT invalidate the dual citizenship itself (which I guess we already know):
"In Maquiling v. COMELEC (2013), the Supreme Court resolved an issue involving a natural-born Filipino who became a naturalized American and who re-acquired his Filipino citizenship under RA 9225. He executed an oath of renunciation of his American citizenship but still used his US Passport, and then ran for Mayor of his town in the 2010 elections. The Supreme Court held that “the use of a foreign passport after renouncing one’s foreign citizenship is a positive and voluntary act of representation of one’s nationality and citizenship; it does not divest Filipino citizenship regained by repatriation but recants the Oath of Recantation required to qualify one to run for an elective position."
Public office and the former dual citizen
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Looks like you are right. I worked on this 8 years ago so this case is new to me. I was referring to running for Barangay Councilor, not Major of a municipality. I do know that most higher offices do require one to be Filipino borne.

PatO · Sep 20, 2016

dwms07 said: ↑

You are 100% right. Dumb mistake to think anyone on this group had any class or money!
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PatO · Sep 20, 2016

Right Maj(y)or, dumb mistake

robert k · Sep 20, 2016

dwms07 said: ↑

You are 100% right. Dumb mistake to think anyone on this group had any class or money!
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I think the OP has shown his true colors. I seriously doubt the OP should be talking about class, glass houses comes to mind. He sounds like a beggar.

I'm more than willing to spend cash on things that I expect to give me a good return. $600 US per year for The Law.net online law library, $350 US a year for my NDRIN subscription so I can check recorded documents online in North Dakota where my property is. $10k US for a lawyers retainer in a case. It's not that I'm unwilling to spend money when I see a good chance of a decent return on it.

DavyL200 · Sep 20, 2016

This thread is going nowhere! Locked.

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