PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 923

GRANTING CITIZENSHIP TO DESERVING ALIENS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 836 dated December 3, 1975 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 second group of applicants and recommended to the President of the Philippines the grant of Philippine citizenship by decree to these applicants;.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested 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; Provided, however, That Presidential Decree No. 836 is amended inserting the following additional paragraph:.

"3-A. Copies of the oaths of allegiance of the wives and the certificates of naturalization of the wives and minor children of persons who acquire Philippine citizenship under this Decree shall be furnished the Commission on Immigration and Deportation, which shall thereupon cancel their certificates of registration as aliens and issue to them the corresponding identification certificates as citizens."

This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.