text: i am a us citizen and i want to work and live in the philippines.  what do i need to do? i am a filipino born in the us. i visited the philippines a year ago and loved it.  so i want to live and work there.  not sure if it will be permanent.  another reason why i want to work there is because of the beautiful filipina ladies. you can always go to the government website..they have procedures there on how to get residents status in the country, in fact you can even get filipino citizenship if one of your parents is filipino...dual citizenship is accepted now in the philippines so you can be both filipino and us citizen... once you have your papers of whther citizenship or resident status, you are free to apply to any job you want... good luck