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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 725
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 725 -
PROVIDING FOR REPATRIATION OF FILIPINO WOMEN WHO HAD LOST THEIR
PHILIPPINE CITIZENSHIP BY MARRIAGE TO ALIENS AND OF NATURAL BORN
FILIPINOS
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WHEREAS,
there are many Filipino women who had lost their Philippine Citizenship
by marriage to aliens; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, while the new constitution allows a Filipino woman who marries
an alien to retain her Philippine citizenship unless by her act or
omission, she is deemed under the law to have renounced her Philippine
citizenship, such provision of the new Constitution does not apply to
Filipino women who had married aliens before said Constitution took
effect;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the existing law (C.A. Nos. 63, as amended) allows the
repatriation of Filipino women who lost their citizenship by reason of
their marriage to aliens only after the death of their husbands or the
termination of their marital status; and
WHEREAS, there are natural born Filipinos who have lost their
Philippine citizenship but now desire to re-acquire Philippine
citizenship; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, do hereby
decree and order that: 1) Filipino women who lost their Philippine
citizenship by marriage to aliens; and (2) natural born Filipinos who
have lost their Philippine citizenship may require Philippine
citizenship through repatriation by applying with the Special Committee
on Naturalization created by Letter of Instruction No. 270, and, if
their applications are approved, taking the necessary oath of
allegiance to the Republic of the Philippines, after which they shall
be deemed to have reacquired Philippine citizenship. The Commission on
Immigration and Deportation shall thereupon cancel their certificate of
registration. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
The aforesaid Special Committee is hereby authorized to promulgate
rules and regulations and prescribe the appropriate forms and the
required fees for the effective implementation of this Decree.
This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 5th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-five.
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