Why bother with legitimizing in the Philippines when it becomes irrelevant once the child immigrates to the US and become a US citizen?
A completely worthless and costly process that is not necessary.
Could the money used to legitimize the child be put to better use? Aren't there more pressing issues?
Legitimization is not worth spending the money on or the time when everyone is coming to the US to live.
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In addition, the US does not require legitimization for a US citizen father to petition his child.
The US has accumulated lots of useless laws over the last 200 years. Issues relating to legitimization may have been relevant in the 19th century, but has very little place here in the 21st. Being illegitimate in the 19th century limited the child's rights because it was bad for a single woman to have a child born out of wedlock. Those laws are still on the books, but have been made irrelevant by new laws which does not consider legitimization.
