Philippine Statistics Authority

Nisperos 04:44 PM, Jul 28, 2022

July 28, 2022

Dear Lourdes Ortiz Luis,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Jul 27, 2022 01:38:48 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

You asked for Cancellation of my late registered birth certificate.

Your FOI request is approved. 

As per policy of the PSA and under Philippine laws, the first incident of registration of an event, i.e., birth, marriage, or death, is the one considered as true and legal. Hence, the copy of the civil registry record which was registered FIRST will prevail. An entry, or entries, on a birth record cannot be corrected through the filing of the late registration of the same.

Kindly be advised that in case of multiple registrations of birth, the first or timely registration shall prevail. Hence, it invalidates all succeeding registration unless a court decision is issued stating that the first registration is canceled.

You may file a petition in court for the cancellation of the first/timely registration of birth to be able to use the second/delayed registration.

For further questions, you may call our Civil Registration Hotline at telephone numbers 8461-0500 loc 702 / 813.  You may also send your concerns directly to these email addresses: crs.qvu1@psa.gov.ph,crs.qvu2@psa.gov.ph, crs.qvu3@psa.gov.ph or crs.staff2@psa.gov.ph.

We would love to hear your Feedback so we can improve our services.  Kindly fill out the PSA Customer feedback form from this link: tinyurl.com/CustomerFeedbackPSA.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

Cesar Reynaldo V. Vinuya
Assistant National Statistician
Information Technology and Dissemination Service