BoI Info Best Posts in Thread: Philippine Citizenship – How to become a Filipino Citizen if Foreigner

"By birth a.k.a Jus soli is quite self explanatory. It means you’re an automatic citizen if you were born in the Philippines soil or territory."
I don't believe this is correct. I'd always heard that the Philippines did NOT recognize the principle of "jus soli", rather that Philippines citizenship derives from at least one parent, regardless of place of birth:
"I would then have to explain that I wasn't really Filipino — even though I was born here (where jus soli — acquisition of citizenship through place of birth — is not in effect) and even though I speak the language fluently. Neither of my parents are Filipino and I'm not married, so aside from being Pinoy "sa puso, sa isip, sa salita at sa gawa," I still wasn't legally a Filipino.
How I became a Filipino: A guide to naturalization for fellow foreignoys
R.A. 9139

 

My wife reacquired her PI citizenship through RA9225 after getting her US citizenship, which requires that you renounce your other citizenships. The only way you can lose US citizenship is to specifically renounce it (like the FaceBook guy who moved to Singapore), so even if you reacquire Philippine citizenship you will retain your US citizenship. For chuckles, we did a late registration for our daughter who was born in the US, so she is a dual citizen based on her Mom's citizenship.

 

catch-22
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Again I think it comes down to a thick pride thing, in other countries where Filipino can retain dual citizenship then I feel the Philippines should offer a likewise reciprocal agreement...

 

Technically, under current law (the 1987 Constitution) that person would ALREADY be a "natural born" dual citizen, but might have to go through a process/get a document called "Recognition as a Filipino Citizen". It's totally different from the RA 9225 Re-Acquisition deal. It doesn't confer Philippines citizenship since it was never lost , just proves/validates it. My son born in 1988 MIGHT have to go through this if he ever a wants a Philippines passport. He was born in the Philippines (that part doesn't really matter) to a Filipina (now naturalized US citizen) mother and a US citizen father (me). His birth was correctly recorded with the Philippines NSO and the US Embassy in Manila, but he never got a Philippine passport, just US.
I'm honestly not sure about a person born in 1972 though, the requirements might have been different.

 

You would need a sh***y passport for the Philippines passport to be an improvement. I suppose it could be useful for in-country things. Like swatting mosquito. You're not going to get much street cred with a Philippines passport abroad. Sure as s*it you won't pick up Filipino chicks with it.

It might be useful for U.S. citizens because the U.S. passport requires your balls to be attached on page 5. But that's only useful if you ditch the U.S. citizenship and this article is about...

Actually, does anyone give it rats @ss about this? I have been here a decade and I'll probably get a Philippines coffin before I get a Philippines passport. Maybe I have looked this up once.