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REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 965 - AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR REACQUISITION OF PHILIPPINE CITIZENSHIP BY PERSONS WHO
LOST SUCH CITIZENSHIP BY RENDERING SERVICE TO, OR ACCEPTING COMMISSION
IN, THE ARMED FORCES OF AN ALLIED FOREIGN COUNTRY, AND TAKING AN OATH
OF ALLEGIANCE INCIDENT THERETO |
Section 1. Any
person who, being a citizen of the Philippines on December eight,
nineteen hundred forty-one, had lost said citizenship by rendering
service to, or accepting commission in, the armed forces of an allied
foreign country, and taking an oath of allegiance incident thereto, may
reacquire Philippine citizenship by taking an oath of allegiance to the
Republic of the Philippines and registering the same with the Local
Civil Registry in the place where he resides or last resided in the
Philippines within one year from the date of the approval of this Act.
The said oath of allegiance shall contain, in addition, a renunciation
of any other citizenship. Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: June 20, 1953 |
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