BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND OTHER TRAVEL DOCUMENTS PROBLEM...

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT?

REPUBLIC ACT (RA) 9048 authorizes the city or municipal 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 registrar without need of a judicial order.

RA 9048 amends Articles 376 and 412 of the Civil Code of the Philippines, which prohibit the change of name or nickname of a person, or any correction or change of entry in the civil register without a judicial order.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo approved the act on 22 March 2001. With the law taking effect on 22 April 2001, the Civil Registrar General promulgated Administrative Order No.1 Series of 2001, which was published in the newspaper in August that year.

WHAT CORRECTIONS CAN BE MADE BY RA 9048?

(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.)