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Cash-strapped Egypt offers citizenship to foreigners investors

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 09 07:35 AM

One can become a citizen of Egypt by making a non-refundable $250,000 deposit in direct revenues in foreign currency into the state's public treasury. Read more »

House OKs Filipino citizenship for Canadian vlogger

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 27 07:25 PM

The House approved on third and final reading the bill granting Filipino citizenship to Canadian vlogger Kyle Douglas Jennerman. Read more »

House OKs PH citizenship for vlogger on 2nd reading

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 22 07:40 PM

The House of Representatives on Wednesday has approved a bill granting Filipino citizenship to popular Canadian vlogger Kyle Jennermann who has been promoting the Philippines to the world. Read more »

House panel OKs Filipino citizenship for Canadian vlogger

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 01 07:40 PM

When asked if he would abandon his Canadian citizenship, Kyle Jennermann vowed to be the best Filipino he can be. Read more »

Ginebra’s Justin Brownlee now a Filipino citizen

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 12 09:17 PM

Barangay Ginebra’s resident import Justin Brownlee has officially secured his Filipino citizenship, according to Sen. Francis Tolentino on Thursday. Read more »

PH groups to form network to end statelessness by 2024

Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 20 06:58 AM

Seventeen civic groups in the Philippines agreed Monday to form a network to eradicate statelessness of people in the country, including war-displaced Filipino-Japanese descendants, by 2024. Read more »

New Zealand offers nurses residency to meet shortfall

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 12 06:04 PM

New Zealand on Monday offered overseas nurses and midwives an immediate pathway to residency, as the country tries to address an acute shortfall of medical staff. Read more »

Fil-Am lawyer organizes Citizenship Fair in Virginia

Monica Galozo | TFC News Virginia Beach, Virginia
Posted at Dec 06 06:13 PM

Immigration lawyer Radlyn Mendoza has been organizing citizenship fairs in Virginia Beach for the last 15 years to help immigrants obtain US citizenship. Read more »

House OKs Justin Brownlee naturalization on 2nd reading

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 23 10:30 PM

The House of Representatives has approved on second reading House Bill 6224 which grants Philippine citizenship to Justin Brownlee Read more »

Love life ni DSWD Sec. Tulfo, naungkat sa CA hearing

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 23 07:59 PM

Naungkat ang personal na buhay at maging ang isyu sa citizenship ni DSWD Sec. Erwin Tulfo sa hearing ng Commission on Appointments. Read more »

House panel OKs Filipino citizenship for Brownlee

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 16 08:20 PM

The House Committee on Justice has approved a bill seeking to grant Filipino citizenship to basketball player Justin Donta Brownlee. Read more »

Ex-immigration detainee in New Jersey sworn in as US citizen

Lenn Almadin Thornhill | TFC News USA
Posted at Nov 04 10:00 AM

Cloyd Edralin had lived in fear of being deported since he was arrested by US immigration authorities in 2018. Read more »

Arroyo wants to allow dual citizens to hold public office

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 06 12:47 AM

Senior House Deputy Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has filed a bill that seeks to allow Filipinos holding dual citizenship to hold public office. Read more »

[OPINION] The high 90.9 education poverty index

Dean dela Paz
Posted at Sep 22 12:53 AM

Given the 90.9 education poverty index, and its negative impact on creating the bureaucracy, where then is the impetus to address our learning deficit seeing the index perpetuates political power? Read more »

Immigrants in SF offered free citizenship assistance

Rommel Conclara | TFC News San Francisco
Posted at Sep 15 08:45 PM

San Francisco's Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs and the Pathways to Citizenship initiative provide free resources to eligible green card holders and access to free assistance. Read more »

War-displaced Japanese in Philippines stand up to claim roots

Maricar Cinco, Kyodo News
Updated as of Aug 10 05:04 PM

Seventy-seven years on, war-displaced Filipino-Japanese descendants on an island province in the western Philippines continue to struggle to openly claim their roots. Read more »

Malaysian citizenship ruling on babies born abroad overturned

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 05 04:34 PM

A Malaysian woman with a foreign spouse who gives birth abroad can't automatically pass on her nationality. Similar restrictions do not apply to men. Read more »

[OPINION] May Day Eve

Dean Dela Paz
Posted at May 05 12:04 AM

As god-fearing citizens dutybound to protect our democracy, we continue to pray that next week, a different May Day mirror-image appears, where true representative democracy prevails and we indeed see, not a demon, but ourselves reflected back. Read more »

Yuka Saso pinili ang Japanese citizenship

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 07 07:37 PM

Itinuturing pa ring golfing hero ng Pilipinas ang kampeon na si Yuka Saso sa kabila ng kaniyang citizenship decision, ayon sa National Golf Association of the Philippines. Read more »

Daijobou (It's alright) Yuka-chan, daijobou

Jijil Jimenez
Updated as of Nov 05 09:56 PM

Choose, Yuka-chan, and be done with it. There will always be a part of you that will forever be Filipino as you take on the world. Read more »