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This page features the full text of
Republic Act No. 8171
AN
ACT PROVIDING FOR THE REPATRIATION OF FILIPINO WOMEN WHO HAVE
LOST
THEIR PHILIPPINE CITIZENSHIP BY MARRIAGE TO ALIENS AND OF
NATURAL-BORN
FILIPINOS.
REPUBLIC
ACT NO. 8171
AN
ACT PROVIDING FOR THE REPATRIATION OF FILIPINO WOMEN WHO HAVE LOST
THEIR PHILIPPINE CITIZENSHIP BY MARRIAGE TO ALIENS AND OF
NATURAL-BORN
FILIPINOS.
Section
1. Filipino women who have lost their Philippine citizenship by
marriage
to aliens and natural-born Filipinos who have lost their Philippine
citizenship,
including their minor children, on account of political or economic
necessity,
may reacquire Philippine citizenship
through
repatriation in the manner provided in Section 4 of Commonwealth
Act No. 63, as amended: Provided, That the applicant
is
not a:
(1)
Person opposed to organized government or affiliated with any
association
or group of persons who uphold and teach doctrines opposing organized
government;
(2)
Person defending or teaching the necessity or propriety of violence,
personal
assault, or associatEon for the predominance of their ideas;
(3)
Person convictad of crimes involving moral turpitude; or
(4)
Person suffering from mental alienation or incurable contagious
diseases.
Sec.
2. Repatriation shall be effected by taking the necessary oath of
allegiance
to the Republic of the Philippines and registration in the proper civil
registry and in the Bureau or Immigration. The Bureau of Immigration
shall
thereupon cancel the pertinent alien
certificate
of registration and issue the certificate of identification as Filipino
citizen to the repatriated citizen.
Sec.
3. All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations, or parts thereof
inconsistent
with this Act are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.
Sec.
4. This Act shall take effect thirty (30) days after its publication in
a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved:
Lapsed
into law on October 23, 1995, without the
signature
of the President, in accordance with Article VI,
Section
27 (1) of the Constitution.
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