How to get a Filipino citizenship of you are an American citizen?

Have your friend apply for permanent residency/13A status if married to a Filipino citizen or retirement visa.. Very difficult and time consuming for an American born citizen to become Philippines citizen and now in best interest. Now if your friend is Filipino and born in the Philippines or one of his/her parents was born in the Philippines, they can become a citizen if they meet the Bureau of Immigrations citizenship requirements.. Check out the Philippines Bureau of Immigrations web site below for further.

A US citizen (not naturalized, no Filipino parent) will have a very hard time becoming a Filipino citizen. The requirements are set up in such a way that it is virtually impossible for a foreigner to get naturalization. Permanent residence is simple enough.

After 1 year you can apply for a permanent resident permit. Or marry a Philippino. It is easy to live there. With out citizenship. Or you can buy economic citizenship there.

Your friend can live here without the citizenship. Click on "Bureau of Immigration.gov.ph" for full details. I asked my Immigration officer about citizenship & she replied only if you are born in the Philippines.

YOU HAVE TO BE CRAZY OR SENILE.

If your friend wants to LIVE only, that is fairly easy and for that all kinds of visas are available. Many people just live on tourist visas and pay for extensions and then leave the country and reenter and start the process again. Married to Filipinos people also have different privileges such as balikbayan- one year visa- if you come into the country with your wife. Then there is a permanent residency if you are married. Very few Americans seek Filipino citizenship to begin with because its main advantage is that you can now do retail trade and own land and guns. A Filipino passport is not very good to travel on because you need visas for so many countries. Naturalization is not easy but if you have the right contacts, right lawyers and sponsorship, you might get it.

You don't need to be a citizen to live here. However, apply for a 13 series residence visa(p30,000?). After 10 years you can apply for citizenship. 5 if you are married to a Filipino, a teacher, or made a major contribution to the nation. You file the paperwork one year before you are qualified. Also must own 5,000 pesos of property, knowledge of civics, history, and a major Filipino dialect. It's very easy. You just have to live here. The hardest part is the p200,000 in fines!

Just re-consider

Wrong move, hun.