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Republic vs. Sayo 188 SCRA 634

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. HON. SOFRONIO SAYO, Presiding Judge of the CFI of Nueva Vizcaya, Branch I, and RAMON TAN BIANA, JR., respondents.

G.R. No. 61565 | 1990-08-20

R E S O L U T I O N

FELICIANO, J.:

Private respondent Ramon Tan Biana, Jr. was born on 9 January 1952 in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, as the fifth legitimate child of the spouses Ramon Tan Biana and Tiu Muy. His birth was registered on the same day in the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, by the nurse who attended the parturition of Ramon's mother. Private respondent claims that, in the process, the attending nurse erroneously reported to the Local Civil Registrar that Ramon's citizenship, and the citizenship of his parents, as "Chinese" instead of "Filipino". Private respondent claims that his "true and real...