Practice question
An applicant under Commonwealth Act No. 473 was born in the Philippines and has continuously resided here for seven years. Assuming the other qualifications and procedural requirements are satisfied and no disqualification exists, is a residence-only objection demanding ten years necessarily correct?
- No. Philippine birth is a statutory special qualification reducing the required residence to five years.
- Yes. The residence requirement can never be reduced.
- No, because birth in the Philippines makes every alien automatically Filipino.
- Yes, unless the President personally waives residence.
- No, because residence is never relevant to naturalization.
Legal references
- Commonwealth Act No. 473, Section 3(5): https://lawphil.net/statutes/comacts/ca1939/ca_473_1939.html
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