Practice question
A child is known to have identified parents and known birth circumstances and does not satisfy 3's foundling definition. A party relies solely on the foundling presumption to determine the child's citizenship. Which is best?
- Every child worldwide automatically satisfies the statutory definition.
- Establish coverage first; absence of foundling coverage does not itself decide citizenship under other applicable rules.
- Failure to qualify as a foundling necessarily means statelessness.
- The child automatically loses every possible citizenship.
- Only a private registration agent may decide nationality.
Legal references
- RA11767 Sections3-5 and9-11, foundling status and registration: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2022/ra_11767_2022.html
- 1987 Constitution ArticleIV and applicable office-specific qualifications: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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