Naturalization Laws / Citizenship Laws
Section 3. Special qualifications. - The ten years of continuous residing required under the second condition of the last preceding section shall be understood as reduced to five years for any petitioner having any of the following qualifications:
1. Having honorably held office under the Government of the Philippines or under that of any of the provinces, cities, municipalities, or political subdivisions thereof;
2. Having established a new industry or introduced a useful invention in the Philippines;
3. Being married to a Filipino woman;
4. Having been engaged as a teacher in the Philippines in a public or recognized private school not established for ti»e exclusive instruction of children of persons of a particular nationality or race, in any of the branches of education or industry for a period of not less than two years;
5. Having teen born in the Philippines.