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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