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In Re: Ricardo Santiago Vs. Commissioner Of Immigration117 Phil. 19

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CANCELLATION OF ALIEN CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION. RICARDO SANTIAGO, petitioner-appellee, vs. COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION, respondent-appellant.

G.R. No. L-14653 | 1963-01-31

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

On June 15, 1957 Ricardo Santiago filed in the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental a petition praying that he be declared a Philippine citizen and that an order be issued cancelling his alien certificate of registration, alleged by him to have been erroneously entered in the Bureau of Immigration. The petition was subsequently amended to make the Commissioner of Immigration a respondent. 

During the hearing petitioner presented evidence to prove the following: On September 28, 1904, in La Carlota, Negros Occidental, he was born out of wedlock to Apolonia Andrade, Filipina, and Tomas...