Who are NOT qualified to become Filipino Citizens by Naturalization

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Who are not qualified to apply for naturalization of the Revised Naturalization Law?

Under Section of 4 of the Revised Naturalization Law, the following persons cannot qualify for Philippine citizenship:

    * Persons opposed to organized government or affiliated with any association or group of persons who uphold and teach doctrines opposing all organized governments;
    * Persons defending or teaching the necessity or propriety of violence, personal assault, or assassination for the success and predominance of their ideas;
    * Polygamists or believers in the practice of polygamy;
    * Persons  convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude;
    * Persons suffering from mental alienation or incurable contagious diseases;
    * Persons who during the period of their stay in the Philippines, have not mingled socially with the Filipinos, or who have not evinced a sincere desire to learn and embrace the customs, traditions, and ideals of the Filipinos;
    * Citizens or subjects of nations with whom the Philippines is at war
    * Citizens or subjects of a foreign country other than the United States, whose laws do not grant Filipinos the right to become naturalized citizens or subject thereof.
source: Bureau of Immigration