A few months back, we featured an article on the conditions for married women to use their maiden names on their passports. In that article, it was mentioned that a married woman needs to show proof that her marriage has been annulled or that she has been widowed before she can revert to her maidenContinue reading “Can a Married Woman Use her Maiden Name on her Passport? Part 2”
Alona is an illegitimate child, born to parents who were barely out of their teens. Her mother gave her up for adoption when she was just a few days old, in exchange for a plane ticket from Manila to Iloilo. She was never heard of from again. Upon learning that his daughter was given toContinue reading “Problems with NSO Birth Certificate: Illegitimate, No Birth Certificate, and Not Acknowledged by her Mother”
In a previous article, we tackled the issue of some Pinoys not having birth records with the Philippine Statistics Authority or PSA (formerly National Statistics Office or NSO). In most cases, the owner of the certificate need to consult with the LCR where his birth was supposedly registered and check if the LCR has aContinue reading “Problems with NSO Birth Certificate: Delayed Registration of Birth”
While some parents fail to properly register their newborn babies at the Local Civil Registry office, therefore resulting to Late Registration when the need for the child’s birth certificate arises, others do it not once, but twice (I hope not more than that!). The following are just some of the reasons why this happens: IContinue reading “Problems with NSO Birth Certificate: Child Was Registered at the LCR Twice”
What if your request for a copy of your NSO Birth Certificate (now PSA Birth Certificate) yields a “negative certification” instead of the actual birth certificate? Is it possible to “not have a birth certificate”? If yes, how do you get one when you’re already almost 60 years old? Mila is a 58-year-old public schoolContinue reading “Problems with NSO Birth Certificate: No Birth Record”
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