Dual citizenship (U.S./Philippines)

[Tahoma 2,292]

My wife, Chinook, is a dual citizen.  It was a painless process for us.  We went to a local outreach event and we were done in less than two hours.  We filed our Report of Marriage, Chinook filed for a new passport, and she obtained her Filipino citizenship.  It took a few weeks for them to send her new passport.

 

Chinook always travels on her U.S. passport.  She used her Filipino passport to buy a house in the Philippines.

[javadown2 308]

On 9/6/2017 at 10:08 PM, Tahoma said:

My wife, Chinook, is a dual citizen.  It was a painless process for us.  We went to a local outreach event and we were done in less than two hours.  We filed our Report of Marriage, Chinook filed for a new passport, and she obtained her Filipino citizenship.  It took a few weeks for them to send her new passport.

 

Chinook always travels on her U.S. passport.  She used her Filipino passport to buy a house in the Philippines.

Sorry for the late reply to your comment, I think the dual citizen is the best option also, thanks for sharing! It's nice seeing someones timeline on here full and complete, it will be nice seeing my wife also becoming a US citizen and us being able to buy our own place in the Philippines for family and retirement. 

[Hank_ 9,174]

Former citizens of the Philippines can own land, just has limitations on how much.   Believe it is 1,000sq.m. for residential.

The SRRVisa allows former citizens to stay "permanently" in the Philippines (their spouses can avail to this also)

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

After naturalizing, and using RA-9225 to reacquire PI citizenship, is the RA-9225 required for anything?  My wife was asked to present hers recently when travelling to the PI on her US passport, and I don’t see the reason for it.

 

Thanks all!

[Hank_ 9,174]

50 minutes ago, IDWAF said:

After naturalizing, and using RA-9225 to reacquire PI citizenship, is the RA-9225 required for anything?  My wife was asked to present hers recently when travelling to the PI on her US passport, and I don’t see the reason for it.

 

Thanks all!

I can't think of one valid reason to be asked for the certificate of citizenship.  Maybe the agent thought it was necessary to give the BB stamp (which it isn't).    Did she have it?  And if she didn't what did the immigration agent say?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

50 minutes ago, Hank_ said:

I can't think of one valid reason to be asked for the certificate of citizenship.  Maybe the agent thought it was necessary to give the BB stamp (which it isn't).    Did she have it?  And if she didn't what did the immigration agent say?

She did have it, because she didn’t listen to me.  And she didn’t need a BB stamp, only staying for a few days.  She showed it.  But I asked her, “What if you didn’t have it, what would the agent say?”  Or... how come no one ever asks ME for my RA 9225?

I suspect she was asked because she looks like a Pinay, and they are jsut used to doing so.  

[Hank_ 9,174]

1 hour ago, IDWAF said:

She did have it, because she didn’t listen to me.  And she didn’t need a BB stamp, only staying for a few days.  She showed it.  But I asked her, “What if you didn’t have it, what would the agent say?”  Or... how come no one ever asks ME for my RA 9225?

I suspect she was asked because she looks like a Pinay, and they are jsut used to doing so.  

They never asked my wife for the RA 9225 when she entered using her U.S. passport.   I think it was just a nosy, or ill-informed agent.

[Balamban 113]

Interestingly I received a query recently by Citicard asking me: "Are you a dual citizen of the Philippines."

I'm not, and so said "no." I found it rather interesting because I have purchased items over time from Lazada.com.ph but the fascinating part is that I've always used Bank America card doing that.

I guess the "eye" sees all.

From a banking point if view I wonder if a person having dual citizenship makes them a credit risk. I have an embarassing amount of "headspace" (available credit that I don't use). So I could see some racking up $50-100k and then simply leaving the US, never to come back.

When married I think that dual citizenship for her would be wise. America has changed so much over the past 30 years, I find it scary.