Practice question
Lina was born in 1995 abroad to a Filipino father and an alien mother. Philippine citizenship attached at birth, and no act was required to acquire or perfect it. Does her foreign birthplace make her naturalized rather than natural-born?
- Yes, because natural-born always means birth on Philippine soil.
- Yes, because a foreign mother defeats paternal citizenship.
- No. The facts satisfy citizenship from birth without a required acquisition or perfection act.
- No, but only after she is judicially naturalized.
- Yes, unless both parents were Filipino.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article IV Sections 1(2) and 2: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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