This article will guide you through applying for a dual citizenship if and only if you are already a United States of America citizen through naturalization and was a Filipino citizen by birth. The guide may also apply under other condition, but does not provide any guarantee. Listed also are the things you can have and do when you are both a citizen of the United States of America and the Republic of the Philippines.

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Sapian Online (SOL) celebrates the New Year with an upgrade. The upgrade renews SOL’s commitment to reconnect Sapianons and, most importantly, affirm that Sapian is part and parcel of the global community.

Only a few New Years ago, the concept of globalization was a faint hum in the academe and Western capitals. Global concept for Sapian was no more than having relatives living or working overseas. And while we have been preoccupied with NPAs and lost commands, the miserable state of transportation and telecommunications made us feel that Sapian was too far removed from the world’s wars, political conflicts and religious extremism. Sapian’s potential physical exposure to a global crisis has been as rare and statistically remote as the fall of Skylab in July 1979. Likewise, the bottomless bounty of Sapian Bay and abundant produce on land cushioned Sapianons from the ill effects of economic downturns in the West. And the weather was a truly predictable cycle of monsoon rains with occasional surge to typhoons and dry summers with occasional drought spells. Gone were those days. (more…)

The messageboard is now online. I apologize if it looks very different from before. My goal for this version is to integrate every parts of the web site into one.

 In addition, it seems that the guestbook won’t be back. I don’t see why the site needs a guestbook when we already have a messageboard. The guestbook became a messageboard in the past anyway, so I’d rather eliminate that redundancy and nuisance in moderation.

After a couple of years, version 3.0 of Sapian Online has materialized. For the rest of the day, I will be restoring posts and pictures. For now, enjoy the new look and refresh your memories. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Firefox users may have trouble viewing the sidebar headers, we’ll fix that.