REVENUE MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 71-2024 issued on July 1, 2024, reiterates the Civil Service Commission (CSC) Memorandum Circular (MC) No. 4, s.2022 re: Clarification on the Policy on Employment in the Government Service of Filipino Citizens with Dual Citizenship Pursuant to CSC Resolution No. 2101052 Promulgated on December 07, 2021.

The Commission resolves to clarify the following policy on the employment in the government
service of Filipino citizens with dual citizenships:
         a. The renunciation of foreign citizenship enunciated under Republic Act No. 9225 applies only               to those with dual allegiance, i.e. dual citizen whose foreign citizenship was acquired through                naturalization or at their own volition;

          b. CSC MC No. 23, s. 2016, as clarified by CSC MC No. 08, s. 2017 and in compliance with the                 provisions of R.A. No. 9225, shall not apply to dual citizens whose foreign citizenship was                      acquired in the following instances:

              1) by birth through the jus soli principle (“right of soil” or citizenship by virtue of just being                        born in the nation’s territory);

             2) derivative naturalization (citizenship given to minors through the naturalization of parents);                    and

             3) through adoption of Filipino minors by alien adoptive parent/s provided that the alien                           adoptive parents complied with the provisions of Adoption Law.