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Sonny17373
  7/18/2016 09:33 EST

I have a question a family member who just became a naturalized citizen in the United States. We live in Alabama and drove to the the Philippine Embassy in Chicago to apply for her dual citizenship. She has had one child here while she was still a Filipino citizens and is due to have another baby in December. While at the embassy they told her to wait until the baby is born then come back and all three could apply for dual citizenship. My question is I thought the mother of a child had to be a Filipino citizen for the baby to claim dual citizenship. Does anyone know anything about this.

CanoPalawan
  7/18/2016 20:04 EST

Pretty sure what they will do is swear in the Mother first which they do on the spot and then the two kids. Technically Mom is already a citizen at that point.

My humble opinion.

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Sonny17373
  7/19/2016 00:35 EST

Thank you

jwadams
  8/28/2016 19:49 EST

if the child is born out of the Philippines it is not a Philippine citizen ,that is the reason most OFW return home to give birth, i have a neighbor born in Hawaii while his mother a Filipino was working there, he is not a Filipino citizen we both go every year to BI for annual report he is 84 very strange indeed

EuroBob
  8/30/2016 09:15 EST

"if the child is born out of the Philippines it is not a Philippine citizen ,that is the reason most OFW return home to give birth, i have a neighbor born in Hawaii while his mother a Filipino was working there, he is not a Filipino citizen we both go every year to BI for annual report he is 84 very strange indeed"

This is not my experience. My daughter was born in Malaysia to my Filipina fiance and I. Within two weeks I applied for my daughter's U.S. citizenship, via my citizenship, and then we applied for her Filipina citizenship via her mother's citizenship. We did all this while in Malaysia. My daughter received both citizenships and passports.

CAspacecowboy
  9/1/2016 18:05 EST

The Philippines, Japan and a number of other countries use the principle of Jus sanguinis. The place of your birth doesn’t matter much at all, the nationality of your mother, or your father, or both parents decide what your birthright nationality is. In a Jus sanguinis country, like the Philippines, you can’t normally become a citizen by virtue of being born here.

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jwadams
  9/2/2016 02:03 EST

she will have trouble convincing officials here in Philippines if she does not have a Filipino birth certificate from NSO

CAspacecowboy
  9/3/2016 09:12 EST

As Sonny and CanoPalawan stated, the Consulate process is after the child has been born, has a name a record. One does not have to make the application in PH as Sonny notes. It can be done in the US at any Consulate, as my GF did in SF. OK, no children involved, but we have other family members who have either retrieved dual and for kids or only for US born kids. Plus another couple got the dual and also for their two kids at the same time as GF did. Look at the application and you will see that dependent (under 18) children are listed in . The oath is taken and passports are issued at the consulate. If child is over 18 then they can apply on their own. Sure it may be a problem getting it done in PH, So do it outside and at least in the US it is straight forward.

PIBound
  9/25/2016 21:53 EST

Let me share my experience, My wife received her dual citizenship from her mother and we recently filed our child born abroad birth certificates with the consulate in Chicago for our 2 kids. total process took 7 days to complete and were accepted no problem and as of yesterday we have received both Philippine passports for our children which are now dual citizens.

Right now we are preparing to move back to the PI in December once we finish remodeling our home and put it up for sale.

We just enjoy a more simple and less stressful life which can be found in the PI unlike the fast paced life of the USA.

Our monthly budget will be 1000USD a month which we should easily be able to stay under considering before we returned to the states 7 years ago our monthly budget was 600USD per month.

Hopefully this helps,

Sean

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