PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1220, October 17, 1977
GRANTING CITIZENSHIP TO DESERVING ALIENS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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 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, 1970 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.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the
Philippines
By the President: (Sgd.) ) JUAN C. TUVERA Presidential
Assistant