Dual Citizenship Through Adoption - No Loss of Filipino Citizenship?

[JT76 4]

My wife just naturalized in the US and we traveled to Washington to complete the dual citizenship process and request a new Filipino passport for her.  While we were there, the embassy said that we didn’t need to complete this process for our son, whom I adopted about 2 years ago, because he didn’t lose his Filipino citizenship when we gained US citizenship through the adoption.  Has anyone heard of this before and can confirm this is the case?

 

What we are left with now is that they allowed us to keep his passport, however the Filipino passport is in his mother’s maiden name while all of his paperwork here in the US (passport, amended birth certificate based on the adoption, etc.) has my last name.  We are told that we could go through a process in the Philippines to have the courts review and approve the US adoption so that we can amend his name on his Filipino birth certificate, but we are wondering whether this is even worth the effort.  From what I have read it can take the better part of a year and we’d have to find an attorney in Zamboanga to help with this process while we are in the US.  Has anyone gone through this effort and found it to be worth the effort?

[Hank_ 9,174]

5 hours ago, JT76 said:

My wife just naturalized in the US and we traveled to Washington to complete the dual citizenship process and request a new Filipino passport for her.  While we were there, the embassy said that we didn’t need to complete this process for our son, whom I adopted about 2 years ago, because he didn’t lose his Filipino citizenship when we gained US citizenship through the adoption.  Has anyone heard of this before and can confirm this is the case?

 

What we are left with now is that they allowed us to keep his passport, however the Filipino passport is in his mother’s maiden name while all of his paperwork here in the US (passport, amended birth certificate based on the adoption, etc.) has my last name.  We are told that we could go through a process in the Philippines to have the courts review and approve the US adoption so that we can amend his name on his Filipino birth certificate, but we are wondering whether this is even worth the effort.  From what I have read it can take the better part of a year and we’d have to find an attorney in Zamboanga to help with this process while we are in the US.  Has anyone gone through this effort and found it to be worth the effort?

Not losing his Philippines citizenship sounds to be correct, much the same as being born to a couple where one parent is a USC .. dual citizenship is automatic.

 

As for the recognition of the adoption in the Phils I can' help you with an attorney, and ALL court recognition processes in the Phils take "forever".   As far as is "it worth the effort" ?    His legal name in the Philippines is still his original birth name, how much of a hassle would that be in day to day life.  

 

Rather than recognition of his U.S. adoption, have you checked into completing the adoption process in the Philippines?   Same result.    

 

 

[payxibka 10,045]

10 hours ago, JT76 said:

My wife just naturalized in the US and we traveled to Washington to complete the dual citizenship process and request a new Filipino passport for her.  While we were there, the embassy said that we didn’t need to complete this process for our son, whom I adopted about 2 years ago, because he didn’t lose his Filipino citizenship when we gained US citizenship through the adoption.  Has anyone heard of this before and can confirm this is the case?

 

What we are left with now is that they allowed us to keep his passport, however the Filipino passport is in his mother’s maiden name while all of his paperwork here in the US (passport, amended birth certificate based on the adoption, etc.) has my last name.  We are told that we could go through a process in the Philippines to have the courts review and approve the US adoption so that we can amend his name on his Filipino birth certificate, but we are wondering whether this is even worth the effort.  From what I have read it can take the better part of a year and we’d have to find an attorney in Zamboanga to help with this process while we are in the US.  Has anyone gone through this effort and found it to be worth the effort?

You only lose the prior citizenship when you voluntarily accept the new citizenship.   Your son received the us citizenship by default and by no overt action he took