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You aren't renouncing US citizenship when you reacquire Philippine citizenship. Once you have American citizenship you will always have it unless you specifically tell the USCIS you no longer want it. Taking the Philippines oath to reacquire Philippine citizenship will not change that. Many Filipino's in the US are dual citizens. I'm not aware of any serious consequences and if at some time you had to pick or choose you could renounce whichever one you wanted.

 

No, it is at a higher level than that. I could be talking about Canada. And I am inferring nothing of the sort about people’s ethics. Everybody has their own ethics, that is their own business yet you are reading into my words something I never said. I personally have a completely different perspective (concerning myself) having been born a citizen. If my wife wanted to be a dual I would have no problem with that, as I shouldn’t, because it would be her personal decision. I never swore an oath of any kind to any country. I never had occasion to do so. But if I did, and then swore another oath to another country I would be faced with a dilemma, war or no war, friendly country or not. But my friends can say ‘don’t worry about it’. I would probably listen to them but the ethical dilemma is still there. My wife chose not to listen to her friends and I respect that and nobody including you is going to convince this legal immigrant who studied faithfully and went through the process, and who did swear an oath to USA citizenship, unlike you or me, to believe differently. Sorry if I miscommunicated in any way. Everybody runs into ethical dilemmas in life, major and minor, and how we handle them is nobody else’s business. [emoji106]


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I believe (but check from an official source) that would be allowed - it seems to me that these rulings are based on family life. So maybe their thinking is that a retirement visa is more likely to be a single person (even though that is not 100% true) but the other visas they quote (including the non-visa BB waiver) are for foreigners married to Filipinas and have a wife and, perhaps, children to support (also a burden off the State).

BUT today I read that, due to insurance coverage issues, Filipinos are now prohibited from travelling out of the country for non-essential purposes. This means if your wife is already out then she could enter with you and, hopefully, obtain you a BB visa (waiver) - but if she is now in the Philippines then she cannot come out to meet you in a nearby country to re-enter with you.

 

Judging from the SCORES of comments on the PRA facebook page, many members are exremely unhappy. Wow.PRA wants to run their mission/business to have Customer satisfaction but BI doesn't really consider letting SRRV in as they do 13a. There may actually be some SRRV people cashing in deposits, at least that is what they say. They feel like they were treated unfairly because they went through even more than 13a to get these visas (they spent and tied-up a lot more money). You can see the comments on the PRA facebook page. I am rather bewildered myself but then again, BI is not a business so in a way I understand their motives; it is probably just a numbers game to BI and they just want to deal with as few returnees as possible with the manpower they have. PRA Money is not an issue to them.