The House Bill seeking to naturalize as a Filipino citizen a young “Math wizard” was approved on second reading, May 19, 2015.
Farrell Eldrian Wu, 14, was granted a Philippine Citizenship “with all the rights, privileges, prerogatives, duties, and obligations appurtenant thereto and with the same effects and subject to the same four conditions as provided under the Constitution”.
The approved House Bill No. 4073 was titled “An Act Granting Philippine Citizenship to Farrell Eldrian Wu” and was first drafted on June 19, 2014.
According to the Facebook page of Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, chairman of the Senate Committee on Human Rights, Wu was born here in the Philippines on July 12, 2000.
Wu is presently a grade 10 student at the MGC New Life Christian Academy where he has particularly excelled in the field of Mathematics.