Until very recently, citizens of the Philippines who, by their own action (ie applied for it in their own right), acquired the nationality of another country lost their Filipino nationality when they applied for a pbuttport from the country of their acquired nationality. Note that Filipino children retained their Filipino nationality, if they acquired their dual nationality through either being born in another country or because their parents applied for the second nationality on their behalf. They would loose their Filipino nationality if the renounce it or ran for political office in their second country. The Philippines has recently changed the law to recognise dual nationality and provided for a route whereby Filipinos who have lost their Filipino nationality as a result of naturalisation can re-acquire their Filipino nationality. The advantage to a Filipino of re-acquiring their original nationality is that they can hold more land and more simply. I suspect what swung the argument for the Government of the Philippines was that they dual nationality Filipinos would send more remittances. I have friends of Indian descent, who have told me that the Indian law requires even dual nationality children to choose their nationality when the reach their majority. -- Nicholas David Richards - "O� sont les neiges d'antan?"
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