Granting Philippine Citizenship to Deserving Aliens

October 17, 1977

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1220

GRANTING CITIZENSHIP TO DESERVING ALIENS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 836 dated December 3, 1975, Presidential Decree No. 923 dated April 20, 1976, and Presidential Decree No. 1055 dated November 26, 1976, granted Philippine citizenship to deserving aliens who were earlier screened and recommended for citizenship by the Special Committee on Naturalization pursuant to Letter of Instruction No. 270;

WHEREAS, the Special Committee on Naturalization has completed the processing of a fourth group of applicants numbering 5,295 and recommended to the President of the Philippines the grant of the Philippine citizenship by decree to these applicants.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby grant Philippine citizenship to the individuals of foreign nationality whose names appear in Annex "A" of this Decree, with all the rights, privileges, duties and obligations appurtenant to such grant and with the same effects and subject to the same conditions provided under Presidential Decree No. 836 dated December 3, 1975 and Presidential Decree No. 923 dated April 20, 1976.

This Decree shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 17th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Seven.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 74 No. 4 Page 635 on January 23, 1978.