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It hoped to prepare the Philippines for self-governance and present a positive image of Filipinos to the rest of the United States. Students of this scholarship program were known as pensionados. From the initial 100 students, the program provided education in the United States to around 500 students.
Along with Guam and Puerto Rico, the United States acquired the Philippines from Spain following the Spanish–American War in 1898 and it became United States territory.The Jones Act of 1916 made it official policy to grant Philippines independence and the Tydings–McDuffie Act of 1934 laid out the timeline and process by which that would happen, with independence fully recognized in ten years.
The column U.S. Citizenship indicates how the person original ascertained US citizenship. Jus soli ("right of the soil") is citizenship by birth in the United States , whereas jus sanguinis ("right of blood") here refers to citizenship through birth abroad to an American parent.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Onofre Bejona spent his 34th birthday riding the bus alone, readying himself for the next three years of his life. It was Aug. 14, and the teacher had arrived in Broward ...
The United States Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787. Article I, section 8, clause 4 of the Constitution expressly gives the United States Congress the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization. [6] Pursuant to this power, Congress in 1790 passed the first naturalization law for the United States, the Naturalization Act of ...
The Citizenship Retention and Re-Acquisition Act of 2003 (Republic Act No. 9225) made Filipino Americans eligible for dual citizenship in the United States and the Philippines. [218] Overseas suffrage was first employed in the May 2004 elections in which Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was reelected to a second term. [219]
1898 United States v. Wong Kim Ark: A US-born son of Chinese immigrants was ruled to be a US citizen under the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment; the Chinese Exclusion Act was held not to apply to someone born in the US. 1915 Guinn & Beal v. United States: [45] Ruling found that Filipinos can naturalize. [46] [47]
Filipino American LGBT Studies: Bakla: Genpalabrica: Filipino American Theater: NClydeD: Filipino Americans in Education: Apaloma: Filipino American Health Practices and Behaviors: Philippine Mythology: Cnilss2: Filipino Americans: Pinoy Hip-Hop: Jacost24: Filipino-American Fashion: Zvande3: Mental Health Care of Filipino/a Americans: Kuyadylan ...