Practice question
A nineteen-year-old applicant born and continuously residing in the Philippines seeks administrative naturalization under Republic Act No. 9139. All other qualifications and requirements are assumed met and no disqualification exists. An objection invokes the twenty-one-year hearing-age requirement of Commonwealth Act No. 473 alone. Is that objection sufficient?
- Yes, because every naturalization statute uses twenty-one.
- Yes, because administrative naturalization is unavailable to anyone under thirty.
- Yes, because age is measured exclusively by the ordinary judicial law.
- No; Republic Act No. 9139 sets its own minimum of eighteen at filing.
- No, because administrative naturalization has no minimum age.
Legal references
- Commonwealth Act No. 473, Sections 2, 3, 4 and 7: https://lawphil.net/statutes/comacts/ca1939/ca_473_1939.html
- Republic Act No. 9139, Sections 3, 4 and 6: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2001/ra_9139_2001.html
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