Any Disadvantages to Dual Citizenship: have USA; add Philippines?

[MikeS]

@echo7tango

This law only applies to those Filipinos who became naturalized citizens of another country after 2003. Doesn’t apply to me. I was naturalized on 10-May-1972.

I’ll defer to your expertise, since you’ve probably looked into this already, but everything I’ve found online seems to imply that it applies. Here’s the full text of the law (the previous sites I & quant18 linked to were missing some crucial lines.) In particular, see section 3:

Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, natural-born citizens of the Philippines who have lost their Philippine citizenship by reason of their naturalization as citizens of a foreign country are hereby deemed to have re-acquired Philippine citizenship upon taking the following oath of allegiance to the Republic:

[oath goes here]

The law doesn’t mention anything about the date of loss of citizenship, nor does the FAQ on the law from the L.A. consulate, nor does the similar FAQ from the Frankfurt Consulate.

ETA: you should contact the nearest Philippine consulate for a definitive answer, of course. That is, if you haven’t already.