Where to obtain official (certification of loss of citizenship) document?

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Thank you for your generous page.

I need to know where can I issue a (certification of loss of citizenship) in the Philippines original copy please (with the required stamps and on letter head) like this one i have found in Europe's embassy thehaguepe.dfa.gov.ph/sample-sites/2014-./2014-03-12-03-13-52 .

Not the (affidavit of renunciation of citizenship) though, as I was born in the Philippines 30 years ago and 1 yr after that I moved with my family to my father's country and I was obtained his citizenship which doesn't allow dual nationalities and my Philippine's passport was never renewed. I need certificate that proves that i lost my citizenship since that time please. Thank you so much

 

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Adelaimar C Arias-Jose
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The Philippines does not issue Certificate of Loss of citizenship. Una sa lahat, the Philippine government will only know that you have lost your Philippine citizenship if you apply for repatriation so that you can regain your PHilippine citizenship.

Kasi, you are born a Filipino if at least one parent is a Filipino. And your birth certificate says that you are a Filipino citizen, then, you are a Filipino citizen. The fact that your passport has expired and has not been renewed is not proof that you have lost your citizenship (my passport expired when I was 15, I have not renewed my passport and I have not obtained a new passport ever since -- but I am still a Filipino citizen, I have not lost my Philippine citizenship). A passport is only a means of identification. It does not give you citizenship -- it only declares what citizenship you were born with.

The fact that you have left the Philippines and you have not gone back to the Philippines does not make you lose your citizenship, either. You are a Filipino wherever you may roam. The Philippine constitution even provides that Filipinos do not automatically lose their citizenship simply because they acquire a new and additional citizenship. Filipinos only automatically lose their citizenship when they renounce it.

Some countries, such as the US, have a pledge of allegiance where they renounce loyalties to any foreign monarch or country and instead pledge their allegiance to the US Constitution. According to cases decided by the Philippine Supreme Court, this is an active act of renunciation. This means that at the moment that a Filipino citizen makes a pledge of allegiance in the US, they have lost their Philippine citizenship.

You can only lose your citizenship if you renounce it. You have to inquire with the DFA if they issue certifications that you have renounced your citizenship. I cannot give you advice as, actually, this is the first time I have ever encountered anybody asking for a certification of lost citizenship.

Get a lawyer. Inquire at the Philippine Embassy nearest you.

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Adelaimar C Arias-Jose

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