QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 813)
The option must be expressed in a written statement signed by the applicant before an officer authorized to administer oaths, and then filed with the nearest civil registry.
The applicant must sign a statement expressing the option before a duly authorized officer who can administer oaths.
The statement must be accompanied by the oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the Government of the Philippines.
If absent, the person may make the required statement before an officer of the Government of the United States authorized to administer oaths, and then forward the statement and the oath of allegiance to the Civil Registry of Manila.
They must be forwarded to the Civil Registry of Manila, together with the oath of allegiance.
An officer authorized to administer oaths in the Philippines.
Any officer of the Government of the United States authorized to administer oaths.
The civil registrar collects a filing fee of ten pesos (₱10).
Anyone found guilty of fraud or falsehood in making the required statement may be punished by prision correccional, a fine not exceeding ten thousand pesos, or both.
It provides the manner in which the option to elect Philippine citizenship shall be declared by a person whose mother is a Filipino citizen.
It refers to subsection (4), Section 1, Article IV of the Constitution.
Upon its approval.
No. CA No. 625 expressly requires that the oath of allegiance accompany the statement; failure to include it would mean the statutory requirement is not met.
Yes. The oath of allegiance must be to the Constitution and the Government of the Philippines.