Your PSA/NSO documents are necessary in almost every transaction that you will take on, like getting government IDs, applying passport, insurance and other important documentations. That’s why you must see to it that you have a correct registration at the local civil registrar for the assurance that your document will be forwarded correctly and will be recorded in the PSA database for your future request.
Sadly, in any reason, there are Birth Certificate contains clerical or typographical error that needs correction. According to the law, a clerical or typographical error refers to an obvious mistake committed in clerical work, either in writing, copying, transcribing, or typing an entry in the civil register that is harmless and innocuous, such as a misspelled name or misspelled place of birth and the like, and can be corrected or changed only by reference to other existing record or records.
Moreover, change of a person’s first name in his/her civil registry document under certain grounds specified under the law through administrative process as follows:
(a.) The petitioner finds the first name or nickname to be ridiculous, tainted with dishonor or extremely difficult to write or pronounce;
(b.) The new first name or nickname has been habitually and continuously used by the petitioner and he has been publicly known by that first name or nickname in the community; or,
(c.) The change will avoid confusion.
Gladly, RA 9048 amends Articles 376 and 412 of the Civil Code of the Philippines, which prohibit the change of name or surname of a person, or any correction or change of entry in a civil register without a judicial order. RA 9048 allows correction of clerical or typographical errors in any entry in civil registry documents, except corrections involving the change in sex, age, nationality and status of a person. Republic Act (RA) 9048 authorizes the city or municipal civil registrar or the consul general to correct a clerical or typographical error in an entry and/or change the first name or nickname in the civil register without need of a judicial order.
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I would like to change the family name of my daughter.Can be?
ang gitnang apelyido ko ay guanes paano ko po icorect ng juanes
Gender dapat po female ang nka register ay male,
Gusto ko po palitan ang isang letter sa apelyedo NG anak ko?