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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 292
TO
: Solicitor General
Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs
Director-General, NISA
SUBJECT : Amendment of LOI No. 270.
It has been determined that there are many applicants for naturalization by decree under Letter of Instructions No. 270, who sincerely desire to change their names into Filipino names to erase signs of their former alien nationalities and to further show the sincerity of their intentions to become Filipinos. Since the procedure prescribed under existing law and rules regarding change of name is complicated and expensive, such that it does not facilitate the assimilation or integration of these naturalized Filipinos into the national fabric as intended by LOI 170, they should be given the opportunity to change their foreign given or first names into "Filipino" names in the same proceedings being conducted under LOI No. 270. Accordingly, LOI No. 270 is amended further by adding a new paragraph thereto, to be known as paragraph 4-A, which shall read as follows:
"4-A
That the Committee shall also submit its recommendations as to who
among the aforesaid applicants found to be eligible and qualified for
naturalization by decree, may be allowed in the same decree, to change
their given or first names from foreign to Filipino, as may have been
requested by them; Provided, however, That the Committee shall verify
that the change of name is not intended for illegal, fraudulent or
capricious reasons, nor to avoid criminal, civil, tax or other proper
liability, and that the State or any individual will not be unduly
prejudiced thereby.
"The option to adopt Filipino
given names shall be extended to the wives and minor children of
applicants if they so desire."
The Special Committee on Naturalization shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations to implement this amended section.
Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.
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