Can one be a Filipino and a foreign citizen at the same time?
Yes. Under Republic Act No. 9225 or the Citizenship Retention and Reacquisition Act of 2003, natural-born Filipinos who are naturalized citizens of a foreign country before the effectivity of this law may re-acquire their Filipino citizenship by taking their oath of allegiance to the Republic of the Philippines. Those who after effectivity of this law become naturalized citizens of a foreign country may retain their Filipino citizenship by taking their oath of allegiance to the Republic. This new law amended a 65-year old law Commonwealth Act No. 63 that divests from natural-born Filipinos their Philippine citizenship upon their naturalization as foreign citizens. Thus, under the old law, many Filipinos have been automatically stripped of their Filipino citizenship by the mere act of having obtained citizenship in another State, without regard to the reasons that compelled them to acquire foreign citizenship. The new law corrects this problem by recognizing dual citizenship and allowin
