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COMMONWEALTH ACT No.
63 American countries or from the United Kingdom shall not

produce loss or forfeiture of his Philippine citizenship if the
law of that country grants the same privilege to its citizens
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE WAYS IN WHICH
and such had been agreed upon by treaty between the
PHILIPPINE CITIZENSHIP MAY BE LOST OR
Philippines and the foreign country from which citizenship is
REACQUIRED
acquired.2
Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines:

Section. 2. How citizenship may be reacquired. –
Citizenship may be reacquired:
Section 1. How citizenship may be lost. – A Filipino citizen
may lose his citizenship in any of the following ways and/or
(1) By naturalization: Provided, That the applicant
events:
possess none of the disqualification's prescribed in
section two of Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred
(1) By naturalization in a foreign country; and twenty-seven,3
(2) By express renunciation of citizenship; (2) By repatriation of deserters of the Army, Navy
or Air Corp: Provided, That a woman who lost her
citizenship by reason of her marriage to an alien
(3) By subscribing to an oath of allegiance to may be repatriated in accordance with the
support the constitution or laws of a foreign provisions of this Act after the termination of the
country upon attaining twenty-one years of age or marital status;4 and
more: Provided, however, That a Filipino may not
divest himself of Philippine citizenship in any
manner while the Republic of the Philippines is at (3) By direct act of the National Assembly.
war with any country;
Section 3. Procedure incident to reacquisition of Philippine
(4) By rendering services to, or accepting citizenship. – The procedure prescribed for naturalization
commission in, the armed forces of a foreign under Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and twenty-
country: Provided, That the rendering of service seven,5 as amended, shall apply to the reacquisition of
to, or the acceptance of such commission in, the Philippine citizenship by naturalization provided for in the
armed forces of a foreign country, and the taking next preceding section: Provided, That the qualifications and
of an oath of allegiance incident thereto, with the special qualifications prescribed in section three and four of
consent of the Republic of the Philippines, shall said Act shall not be required: And provided, further,
not divest a Filipino of his Philippine citizenship if
either of the following circumstances is present:
(1) That the applicant be at least twenty-one years
of age and shall have resided in the Philippines at
(a) The Republic of the Philippines has a least six months before he applies for
defensive and/or offensive pact of naturalization;
alliance with the said foreign country; or
(2) That he shall have conducted himself in a
(b) The said foreign country maintains proper and irreproachable manner during the
armed forces on Philippine territory with entire period of his residence in the Philippines, in
the consent of the Republic of the his relations with the constituted government as
Philippines: Provided, That the Filipino well as with the community in which he is living;
citizen concerned, at the time of and
rendering said service, or acceptance of
said commission, and taking the oath of
(3) That he subscribes to an oath declaring his
allegiance incident thereto, states that
intention to renounce absolutely and perpetually all
he does so only in connection with his
faith and allegiance to the foreign authority, state
service to said foreign country: And
or sovereignty of which he was a citizen or subject.
provided, finally, That any Filipino
citizen who is rendering service to, or is
commissioned in, the armed forces of a Section 4. Repatriation shall be effected by merely taking
foreign country under any of the the necessary oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth6 of
circumstances mentioned in paragraph the Philippines and registration in the proper civil registry.
(a) or (b), shall not be permitted to
participate nor vote in any election of the
Section 5. The Secretary of Justice shall issue the
Republic of the Philippines during the
necessary regulations for the proper enforcement of this Act.
period of his service to, or commission
Naturalization blanks and other blanks required for carrying
in, the armed forces of said foreign
out the provisions of this Act shall be prepared and furnished
country. Upon his discharge from the
by the Solicitor General, subject to approval of the Secretary
service of the said foreign country, he
of Justice.
shall be automatically entitled to the full
enjoyment of his civil and political rights
as a Filipino citizen; Section 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
(5) By cancellation of the of the certificates of Approved, October 21, 1936.

naturalization;
(6) By having been declared by competent

authority, a deserter of the Philippine armed
forces in time of war, unless subsequently, a
plenary pardon or amnesty has been granted; and
(7) In the case of a woman, upon her marriage to a

foreigner if, by virtue of the laws in force in her
husband's country, she acquires his nationality.1
The provisions of this section notwithstanding, the

acquisition of citizenship by a natural born Filipino citizen
from one of the Iberian and any friendly democratic Ibero-

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COMMONWEALTH ACT No.

63 American countries or from the United Kingdom shall not

Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines:

(5) By cancellation of the of the certificates of Approved, October 21, 1936.

(6) By having been declared by competent

(7) In the case of a woman, upon her marriage to a

The provisions of this section notwithstanding, the

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