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Sa gitna ng mga issue sa citizenship ni Alice Guo, marami ang napatanong — Sino nga ba ang isang Filipino citizen?  Nauna nang iginiit ni Guo na isa siyang Pilipino. Pero ayon sa NBI, iisa lang umano si Alice Guo at Chinese passport holder na si Guo Hua Ping.   Paano nga ba masasabing Filipino citizen ang isang indibidwal? Here’s what you #NeedToKnow!

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00:00I am a Filipino.

00:02How can you say you are a true Filipino?

00:05If you were born in the Philippines?

00:07If you grew up here?

00:09Or if you studied here?

00:11You don't need to remember the name of your grade school teacher.

00:15We don't need to remember our past.

00:18Here's what you need to know if you are a Filipino citizen.

00:22According to Article 4, Section 1 of our 1987 Constitution,

00:26Filipino citizens are to be considered as followers.

00:31Before our 1987 Constitution,

00:34we had a 1973 Constitution

00:37and we also had a 1935 Constitution.

00:41Under the 1973 Constitution,

00:43if your mother or father is a Filipino,

00:47you are considered a Filipino.

00:49Filipino citizens who were born to Filipino mothers

00:56and when they reach 18 years of age,

01:00they decided to elect Philippine citizenship.

01:03Filipino citizens under the 1935 Constitution

01:07are those who have a Filipino mother or father

01:10or those who were born abroad but hold a public office.

01:15So all of those can actually be considered as Filipino citizens

01:19under the first category.

01:20If an individual was born to a Filipino mother or father

01:28or both Filipino citizens,

01:31they are Filipino citizens.

01:32And of course, when we talk of the term father or mother,

01:36we are actually talking about the biological parents

01:40or parents of the child.

01:43Yes, that's clear.

01:45We need biological parents.

01:48What is the significance of January 17, 1973?

01:54This census was actually the date

01:57that the 1973 Constitution was adopted.

02:01If your mother is Filipino,

02:04she gave birth to your father, Dayuhan Banyaga.

02:08Upon reaching 18 years of age,

02:10you are given the choice

02:11whether to follow the citizenship of your foreigner father

02:15or your Filipino mother.

02:17Before, you are only required to choose one.

02:21But now, we have such a thing as a dual citizenship.

02:26So, dual citizenship, as Supreme Court decisions will tell us,

02:32is different from dual allegiance.

02:35Only dual citizenship is allowed in the Philippines,

02:37not dual allegiance.

02:39Remember that even in citizenship,

02:41we should be loyal to one another.

02:45Naturalized Filipino citizens

02:47are the ones who were originally born as Banyaga,

02:50but they chose to become Filipino citizens

02:53and they went through the process

02:56to use Filipino citizenship.

02:58There are two ways to obtain Filipino citizenship.

03:02It can be by birth or it can also be by naturalization.

03:06When we talk about natural-born Filipino citizens,

03:10these are the individuals who were born as natural Filipino citizens.

03:16When we talk of a naturalized Filipino citizen,

03:20they are the citizens of other countries.

03:25But by choice, they chose to become Filipino

03:29and they chose to go through the process of naturalization

03:34that we are implementing here in our country.

03:41There are actually three ways

03:43where a foreigner can be naturalized as a Filipino citizen.

03:50First, there can be a law from Congress

03:53allowing a particular foreigner to become a naturalized Filipino citizen.

03:58Another mode is by judicial naturalization.

04:02This means that Banyaga will file a petition for naturalization in court

04:10and the court will issue a decision

04:13granting the petition for naturalization as a Filipino citizen.

04:17And the third is administrative naturalization

04:21in accordance with Republic Act No. 9139.

04:23That's the law for administrative naturalization.

04:27Administrative naturalization is only available to Banyagas

04:33who were born here in the Philippines,

04:36who have lived here in the Philippines since birth,

04:39who have studied here in the Philippines,

04:41who were born here,

04:43who were born and raised here,

04:45and who have a job or business here.

04:48There are two concepts used

04:50to talk about the citizenship of a person.

04:53This is Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis.

04:55In Jus Soli or Right of the Soil,

04:58a person's citizenship is based on the place where he was born.

05:02In the Philippines, we follow Jus Sanguinis.

05:05Jus Sanguinis principle,

05:07citizenship is acquired by birth,

05:10which means that your Filipino identity

05:14is acquired based on the nationality of your parents.

05:20That's why when it comes to citizenship,

05:22birth certificate is important.

05:24This is where we can see the citizenship of a person's parents

05:28based on their citizenship.

05:31In our civil registry system,

05:33when an individual is born,

05:36his birth must be registered within 30 days

05:42counted from the actual date he was born.

05:45That's the usual process.

05:48Once it exceeds the 30-day mark,

05:52you can register your birth

05:54through the process of late registration.

05:57Are there consequences if the applicant is wrong

06:01and gives his documents?

06:03For example, if he committed a crime

06:07that is not true,

06:10so perjury is one,

06:12then falsification is also possible.

06:14These are criminal cases.

06:16If the individual is found to be not a Filipino citizen,

06:20that individual may lose the status of a Filipino citizen,

06:24privileges that are only reserved for Filipino citizens,

06:28the right to vote and be elected to a public office,

06:32the right to own lands in the Philippines,

06:35the right to exercise a profession.

06:37Now we know how to avoid revoking our Filipino citizen card.

06:41Remember, even if we don't remember our childhood,

06:45what's important is that our identity is officially and registered.

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