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Sy Ha, Et Al. Vs. Emilio L. Galang117 Phil. 798

SY HA alias SZE SOOK HA, ETC. ET AL., petitioners-appellees, vs. EMILIO L. GALANG, ETC., respondent-appellant.

G.R. No. L-18513 | 1963-04-27

D E C I S I O N 


BAUTISTA ANGELO, J.: 

Go Hip was born in China on March 15, 1922. He came to the Philippines from Amoy, China in 1941 as a Chinese citizen. On February 3, 1960, he applied for the cancellation of his alien registration and upon investigation he was declared a Filipino citizen by birth as the son of Manuel Go who was the illegitimate son of a Filipino mother. 

On June 16, 1960, Sy Ha alias Sze Sook Ha, a Chinese citizen, applied for a passport visa at the Philippine Consulate in Hongkong together with her two minor children Go Kang and Go Siong to enter the Philippines as tourists and were admitted as temporary...