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News bits for your reference.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) must go after its employees who are reportedly conniving with passport fixers that charge exorbitant fees to facilitate the early appointment and release of travel documents, travel and recruitment agencies urged on Monday.
Travel agencies have bearing the brunt for some time now of the passport syndicates operating at the DFA Consular Affairs Office at Aseana building in Parañaque City, said Maria Paz Alberto, board member of both the Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) and the Pilipino Manpower Agencies Accredited to Taiwan (PILMAT)
Alberto hailed last week’s apprehension of two DFA employees — reportedly caught conniving with a fixer on the early release of passports of the family of a Hong Kong-bound couple.
That was “… a step in the right direction," she said, noting that the problem may by addressed with this development.
“Hopefully… we will now be able to speed up the process of providing our clients [with] their passport needs," said Paz in a statement issued Monday.
The Hong Kong-bound couple — interviewed by the DFA consular Office — supposedly got their passports earlier than the day these were supposed to be released.
Bernielin Samson, according to PILMAT and the PTAA, admitted having paid a fixer P15,000 to have the five passports of her family released by the DFA Consular Affairs Office.
Proliferation of fixers
PILMAT has been asking the DFA Consular Office to address the proliferation of passport fixers at Aseana building, recruitment consultant Emmanuel Geslani said in a separate statement.
“The recent apprehension of two senior employees of the Department of Foreign Affairs — after they were caught red-handed dealing with passport fixers — confirms what the recruitment industry has been reporting [in] the past year that there was [a] passport syndicate operating at the DFA Consular Affairs Office in cahoots with DFA personnel," Geslani said.
According to the recruitment consultant, PILMAT in May 2010 raised the problem with the DFA after it has come to the association’s attention that fixers at the Consular Affairs Office in Aseana were charging applicants P5,000 to P10,000.
The DFA last year denied such activities were happening at the consular Affairs Office.
However, Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Jet Ledda confirmed last year that fixers were able to block the schedule of appointments for passport applicants — a situation that could only have been done in connivance with DFA employees who have access to the schedule.
The backlog in the DFA’s online appointments had reached three months, prompting many applicants to turn to passport fixers to have their travel documents released as early as possible, Geslani said.
The Consular Affairs Office processes 8,000 to 10,000 passport applications a day on top of the 3,000 to 5,000 passports travel agencies bring to the DFA for processing. — VS, GMA News
OTHER NEWS: Vacationing OFWs Must Remember To Get Overseas Employment Certificate
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Deployment Deal Between PH, Saudi Pushed
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More news update:
A GROUP of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) on Sunday pushed for the establishment of a government-to-government deployment arrangement to fully address the labor row between the Philippines and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
In a statement, the Migrante-Middle East (MME) said it would be best to simply establish a government-to-government deal so that all concerns of both parties would be completely addressed.
“It is time for the Aquino government to seriously find ways to solve, if not diminish, incidents of abuses and rampant labor malpractices involving OFW by inking a government-to-government deployment arrangement of domestic workers in view of providing them real protection,” said MME coordinator John Leonard Monterona.
Monterona said it would be a better arrangement for the OFWs especially since it involves the arguably number one foreign employer of Filipinos.
“For instance, the repatriation of thousands of stranded and distress OFWs in Saudi and other mid-east countries could be dealt best by both -- the sending and receiving-host governments -- stranded OFWs’ repatriation can’t be relied on erring and negligent recruitment agencies,” he said.
Records of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) show that there are more than a million OFWs working in the KSA most of which are employed as engineers, nurses or hospital workers, accountants, office workers, construction workers, restaurant workers, and maids.
Last March, the Saudi government stopped processing the hiring of OFW household service workers as Saudi employers protested the requirements imposed by the Philippine government such as the minimum wage and worker protection.
The contested requirements were imposed back in 2006 when current Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz was still the POEA chief. (AMN/Sunnex)
More news update:
A GROUP of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) on Sunday pushed for the establishment of a government-to-government deployment arrangement to fully address the labor row between the Philippines and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
In a statement, the Migrante-Middle East (MME) said it would be best to simply establish a government-to-government deal so that all concerns of both parties would be completely addressed.
“It is time for the Aquino government to seriously find ways to solve, if not diminish, incidents of abuses and rampant labor malpractices involving OFW by inking a government-to-government deployment arrangement of domestic workers in view of providing them real protection,” said MME coordinator John Leonard Monterona.
Monterona said it would be a better arrangement for the OFWs especially since it involves the arguably number one foreign employer of Filipinos.
“For instance, the repatriation of thousands of stranded and distress OFWs in Saudi and other mid-east countries could be dealt best by both -- the sending and receiving-host governments -- stranded OFWs’ repatriation can’t be relied on erring and negligent recruitment agencies,” he said.
Records of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) show that there are more than a million OFWs working in the KSA most of which are employed as engineers, nurses or hospital workers, accountants, office workers, construction workers, restaurant workers, and maids.
Last March, the Saudi government stopped processing the hiring of OFW household service workers as Saudi employers protested the requirements imposed by the Philippine government such as the minimum wage and worker protection.
The contested requirements were imposed back in 2006 when current Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz was still the POEA chief. (AMN/Sunnex)
Asean Seeks To Strengthen Antipiracy Drive
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News update on antipiracy:
MANILA, Philippines - Foreign ministers of Association of Southeast Asian (Asean) member-states will seek to strengthen further the regional and global campaign to combat piracy and violations of intellectual property through the development of multilateral and bilateral arrangements, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Sunday.
The DFA reported that the proposal to further enhance Asean's antipiracy drive aims to facilitate the apprehension, investigation, prosecution, and extradition, exchange of witness, sharing of evidence, inquiry, seizure and forfeiture of proceeds of piracy, mutual legal and administrative assistance among Asean member-states, which is in accordance with the Asean Plan of Action to Combat Transnational Crime.
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario have pushed forward Philippine priorities in achieving the Asean community building goals in 2015 during the Fifth Meeting of the Political-Security Community (APSC), the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and the Eight Meeting of the Asean Coordinating Council in preparation for the 18th Asean Summit in Jakarta.
According to the DFA, these priorities also include the “full and effective implementation of the Asean Work Plan on Combating Illicit Drug Production, Trafficking and Use for 2009 to 2015 to achieve a Drug-Free Asean by 2015.”
Del Rosario highlighted the Philippines’ commitment to promote and protect human rights in Asean through the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and the implementation of the Asean Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers.
He cited the completion of the Guidelines on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea this year to commemorate 20 years of Asean-China strategic partnership.
During the preparatory meetings, del Rosario also asserted Asean Member States’ need for closer coordination to promote and protect the welfare of its nationals caught in crisis situations given the peace and security situation in the Middle East and Africa.
Moreover, the list included enhancing disaster-management cooperation in the Asean Regional Forum by improving coordination mechanisms and capacity building such as the Disaster Relief Exercise held in Manado, Indonesia, from March 14 to 19.
Del Rosario likewise pushed for the full implementation of APSC Communication Plan which, he said, was adopted in 2010 to enhance awareness among the peoples in Asean of how APSC benefits the region to contribute to the promotion of peace and security in the region.
The DFA Secretary said also in the priority is the preparation of an Asean Convention on Trafficking in Persons as soon as possible as a mechanism to enhance Asean’s efforts in combating trafficking in persons.
In this regard, he said, the Philippines, as the lead shepherd on Trafficking in Persons (TIP), will host the “Experts’ Meeting to Study the Feasibility on Developing an Asean Convention on Trafficking in Persons” in June, and the Fifth Senior Officials’ Meeting on Transnational Crime Working Group Meeting on TIP and the 20th Meeting of the Heads of Specialist Antitrafficking Units in July this year.
As agreed in the preparatory meetings, the Asean Ministers also committed to ensure “tangible progress” on the implementation of the priority projects and key actions of the Master Plan on Asean Connectivity which include the feasibility studies on (1) the Asean roll-on/roll-off and Short Sea shipping; and (2) the extension of the Trans-Asean Gas Pipeline in BIMP-Eaga;
Del Rosario said the conferees also agreed on the inclusion of political and security issues in the agenda of the East Asia Summit (EAS) by “creating an environment conducive to discussion of such issues.”
By doing this, he said, Asean raises the strategic value of the EAS as a leader’s forum with the inclusion of the United States and the Russian Federation as new members.
Del Rosario explained that since Asean is only four years away from its target date of building its community by 2015, he stressed during the meetings the need for Asean to step up and expedite its work to realize an Asean Community that is peaceful, stable, economically competitive and people-oriented. By Butch Fernandez, Business Mirror
News update on antipiracy:
MANILA, Philippines - Foreign ministers of Association of Southeast Asian (Asean) member-states will seek to strengthen further the regional and global campaign to combat piracy and violations of intellectual property through the development of multilateral and bilateral arrangements, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Sunday.
The DFA reported that the proposal to further enhance Asean's antipiracy drive aims to facilitate the apprehension, investigation, prosecution, and extradition, exchange of witness, sharing of evidence, inquiry, seizure and forfeiture of proceeds of piracy, mutual legal and administrative assistance among Asean member-states, which is in accordance with the Asean Plan of Action to Combat Transnational Crime.
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario have pushed forward Philippine priorities in achieving the Asean community building goals in 2015 during the Fifth Meeting of the Political-Security Community (APSC), the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and the Eight Meeting of the Asean Coordinating Council in preparation for the 18th Asean Summit in Jakarta.
According to the DFA, these priorities also include the “full and effective implementation of the Asean Work Plan on Combating Illicit Drug Production, Trafficking and Use for 2009 to 2015 to achieve a Drug-Free Asean by 2015.”
Del Rosario highlighted the Philippines’ commitment to promote and protect human rights in Asean through the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and the implementation of the Asean Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers.
He cited the completion of the Guidelines on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea this year to commemorate 20 years of Asean-China strategic partnership.
During the preparatory meetings, del Rosario also asserted Asean Member States’ need for closer coordination to promote and protect the welfare of its nationals caught in crisis situations given the peace and security situation in the Middle East and Africa.
Moreover, the list included enhancing disaster-management cooperation in the Asean Regional Forum by improving coordination mechanisms and capacity building such as the Disaster Relief Exercise held in Manado, Indonesia, from March 14 to 19.
Del Rosario likewise pushed for the full implementation of APSC Communication Plan which, he said, was adopted in 2010 to enhance awareness among the peoples in Asean of how APSC benefits the region to contribute to the promotion of peace and security in the region.
The DFA Secretary said also in the priority is the preparation of an Asean Convention on Trafficking in Persons as soon as possible as a mechanism to enhance Asean’s efforts in combating trafficking in persons.
In this regard, he said, the Philippines, as the lead shepherd on Trafficking in Persons (TIP), will host the “Experts’ Meeting to Study the Feasibility on Developing an Asean Convention on Trafficking in Persons” in June, and the Fifth Senior Officials’ Meeting on Transnational Crime Working Group Meeting on TIP and the 20th Meeting of the Heads of Specialist Antitrafficking Units in July this year.
As agreed in the preparatory meetings, the Asean Ministers also committed to ensure “tangible progress” on the implementation of the priority projects and key actions of the Master Plan on Asean Connectivity which include the feasibility studies on (1) the Asean roll-on/roll-off and Short Sea shipping; and (2) the extension of the Trans-Asean Gas Pipeline in BIMP-Eaga;
Del Rosario said the conferees also agreed on the inclusion of political and security issues in the agenda of the East Asia Summit (EAS) by “creating an environment conducive to discussion of such issues.”
By doing this, he said, Asean raises the strategic value of the EAS as a leader’s forum with the inclusion of the United States and the Russian Federation as new members.
Del Rosario explained that since Asean is only four years away from its target date of building its community by 2015, he stressed during the meetings the need for Asean to step up and expedite its work to realize an Asean Community that is peaceful, stable, economically competitive and people-oriented. By Butch Fernandez, Business Mirror
DFA Senior Employees Caught Dealing With Fixers
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Information found on the electronic highway:
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TWO senior employees of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) are facing administrative charges and possible dismissal after they were allegedly caught red-handed dealing with passport fixers and facilitating early release of passports on Tuesday.
The DFA’s Office of Consular Affairs handles an average of 8,000 to 10,000 individual passport applications, on top of those being handled by travel agencies that usually reach 3,000 to 5,000 daily.
The DFA Office of Legal Affairs said administrative charges have been filed against the head secretary of DFA Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Jet Ledda and an officer assigned in the office of Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario. The two are senior staff members who have served the department for almost 10 years.
The two DFA employees were allegedly caught conniving with a passport fixer whose services were engaged by a Hong Kong-bound couple identified as Vann Matthew and Bernielin Samson. The couple, along with their child and in-laws, were scheduled to leave on May 4 but their passports were supposed to be released at a latter date.
On Tuesday the couple sought the assistance of a fixer operating outside the DFA Office of Consular Affairs located in Aseana building in Parañaque City. The couple paid P15,000 for the early release of the five passports.
A BusinessMirror source, known to the passport applicants, forwarded the text message of Samson to her husband before she went to the DFA consular affairs office on Tuesday to get in touch with the insider contact of the passport fixer. The text message to her friend said:
“Andito po ako sa DFA old building, ’yung pupuntahan ko sa DFA MOA na contact ni sweetie [referring to her husband Matthew] dito eh ’yung [referring to head secretary of Ledda]. ’Yung kilala ni sweetie dito ang nagpabilis ng printing ng passport. Sa QC BSP [Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas] pala piniprint ang passport.”
DFA spokesman Eduardo Malaya confirmed the filing of administrative charges against the two erring employees, saying the department is ready to institute reforms to protect passport applicants from being victimized by the fixers.
A senior diplomat, meanwhile, said the DFA has conducted an immediate investigation into the involvement of passport fixing of the two senior staff members.
“We were able to trace the culprits and referred the cases to the office of Secretary del Rosario. They are now facing administrative charges and will be suspended while we conduct further hearings,” said the senior diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“I believe justice has been done, and their suspension will cripple the passport-fixer syndicates who continue to victimize our poor applicants,” said the senior diplomat.
He added that officers conniving with passport fixers have been happening for many years, but there were no formal complaints lodged by the victims.
He said the department has recently dismissed a casual employee assigned at the consular affairs office for conniving with passport fixers.
“This incident appears to be the first time that senior officers have been involved in passport fixing. It’s very sad and disappointing for us in the diplomatic service to find out that our colleagues are involved in illegal activities,” said the senior DFA official.
The increasing number of passport applicants, up to 12,000 daily, at the consular affairs office is causing the backlog in the release and facilitation of the travel documents, consequently prompting applicants to engage the services of the passport fixers lurking around the DFA consular office.
In an earlier BusinessMirror report, Ledda confirmed the operation of online passport fixers who block en masse passport application schedules and sell them to passport applicants who need to rush the release of their travel documents.
The online passport fixers charge exorbitant fees for blocked schedules, ranging from P1,500 to P15,000, depending on the dates of application.
The DFA has embarked on a P3-billion electronic and machine-readable passport project with French Belgian firm Oberthur to upgrade the country’s travel document. The DFA, in partnership with the BSP, started the issuance of the e-passport in August 2009. – Estrella Torres / Reporter http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/home/nation/10732-2-dfa-senior-employees-caught-dealing-with-fixers
Information found on the electronic highway:
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TWO senior employees of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) are facing administrative charges and possible dismissal after they were allegedly caught red-handed dealing with passport fixers and facilitating early release of passports on Tuesday.
The DFA’s Office of Consular Affairs handles an average of 8,000 to 10,000 individual passport applications, on top of those being handled by travel agencies that usually reach 3,000 to 5,000 daily.
The DFA Office of Legal Affairs said administrative charges have been filed against the head secretary of DFA Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Jet Ledda and an officer assigned in the office of Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario. The two are senior staff members who have served the department for almost 10 years.
The two DFA employees were allegedly caught conniving with a passport fixer whose services were engaged by a Hong Kong-bound couple identified as Vann Matthew and Bernielin Samson. The couple, along with their child and in-laws, were scheduled to leave on May 4 but their passports were supposed to be released at a latter date.
On Tuesday the couple sought the assistance of a fixer operating outside the DFA Office of Consular Affairs located in Aseana building in Parañaque City. The couple paid P15,000 for the early release of the five passports.
A BusinessMirror source, known to the passport applicants, forwarded the text message of Samson to her husband before she went to the DFA consular affairs office on Tuesday to get in touch with the insider contact of the passport fixer. The text message to her friend said:
“Andito po ako sa DFA old building, ’yung pupuntahan ko sa DFA MOA na contact ni sweetie [referring to her husband Matthew] dito eh ’yung [referring to head secretary of Ledda]. ’Yung kilala ni sweetie dito ang nagpabilis ng printing ng passport. Sa QC BSP [Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas] pala piniprint ang passport.”
DFA spokesman Eduardo Malaya confirmed the filing of administrative charges against the two erring employees, saying the department is ready to institute reforms to protect passport applicants from being victimized by the fixers.
A senior diplomat, meanwhile, said the DFA has conducted an immediate investigation into the involvement of passport fixing of the two senior staff members.
“We were able to trace the culprits and referred the cases to the office of Secretary del Rosario. They are now facing administrative charges and will be suspended while we conduct further hearings,” said the senior diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“I believe justice has been done, and their suspension will cripple the passport-fixer syndicates who continue to victimize our poor applicants,” said the senior diplomat.
He added that officers conniving with passport fixers have been happening for many years, but there were no formal complaints lodged by the victims.
He said the department has recently dismissed a casual employee assigned at the consular affairs office for conniving with passport fixers.
“This incident appears to be the first time that senior officers have been involved in passport fixing. It’s very sad and disappointing for us in the diplomatic service to find out that our colleagues are involved in illegal activities,” said the senior DFA official.
The increasing number of passport applicants, up to 12,000 daily, at the consular affairs office is causing the backlog in the release and facilitation of the travel documents, consequently prompting applicants to engage the services of the passport fixers lurking around the DFA consular office.
In an earlier BusinessMirror report, Ledda confirmed the operation of online passport fixers who block en masse passport application schedules and sell them to passport applicants who need to rush the release of their travel documents.
The online passport fixers charge exorbitant fees for blocked schedules, ranging from P1,500 to P15,000, depending on the dates of application.
The DFA has embarked on a P3-billion electronic and machine-readable passport project with French Belgian firm Oberthur to upgrade the country’s travel document. The DFA, in partnership with the BSP, started the issuance of the e-passport in August 2009. – Estrella Torres / Reporter http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/home/nation/10732-2-dfa-senior-employees-caught-dealing-with-fixers
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
NSO – Adoption Procedures
Bonjour. Mabuhay.
For those who want to change the surname of their children to a new one, adoption may be the option for you. read below:
What is adoption?
Adoption may be considered a process “to take into one’s family through legal means and raise as one own’s child”. (the Groiler International Dictionary, Vol. 1, 1981: Houghton Mifflin Company)
Adoption is also defined as “a judicial act which creats between two persons a relationship similar to that which result from legitimate paternity and filiation”. (A Valverde 473, quoted in Prasnick vs. Rep. of the Phil. 665)(Civil Law Reviewer by Desiderio P. Jurado, 1882 Twelfth Edition with Supplement published by National Book Store, Inc.)
Rule 1 OCRG Circular No. 90-2 dated March 28, 1990 likewise define Adoption as a legal process pursuant to P. D. No. 603, as amended by Executive order No. 209 (Family Code of the Philipines) in which a child’s legal right and duties toward his ntural parents are terminated and similar rights and duties toward his adoptive parents are substituted.
Adoption is always a juridical act (Lazati v. Campos, 92 SCRA 250) and it cannot be granted administratively. And because there can be no valid adoption without a court decree granting the same, a mere agreement of adoption between the adopters and the parents of the child is not a valid adoption (Ynigo v. Republic, 95 Phil. 244), nor the mere fact that the child has lived with the alleged adopter who had treated him like his own child sufficient t establish a valid adoption beteen the alleged adopter and the child (Lazatin v. Campos, 92 SCRA 250).
What are the requirements for registration of adoption?
The following documents shall be submitted to the local civil registrar for entry in the Register of Court Decrees:
1. Four (4) copies of judicial decree of adoption to be distributed as follows: first copy to the registrant, second copy for the local civil registrar making the entry, third copy to the local civil registrar of the place where the birth of the child was originally registered and the fourth copy to the Office of the Civil Registrar-General.
2. Four (4) copies of the birth certificate of the adopted to be distributed in accordance with the immediately preceding paragraph. (OCRG Circular No. 90-2 dated March 28 1990
What are the requirements that shall be complied with by concerned parties in the preparation and issuance of the Amended Certificate of Live Birth of the adopted child?
The following requirements shall be complied with by the concerned parties:
1. Certification of registration of the adoption decree to be issued by the civil registrar of the city or municipality where the adoption decree was recorded;
2. Authenticated copy of the adoption decree bearing registry number and date of registration;
3. Copy of the registered Certificate of Live Birth of the adopted child. If the birth of the adopted child was not previously registered in the civil registrar with the child’s natural parents under the rules governing delayed registration of birth;
4. If the adopted child was a foundling, the document to be amended in his Certificate of Live Birth based on the available information which may be obtained from the adopting parents, or from reliable and competent sources;
5. The amended Certificate of Live Birth shall be attached to the original Certificate of Live Birth of the child which is filed at the Office of the Civil Registrar; and
6. When the interested party requests a copy of the amended Certificate of Live Birth, the copy to be issued shall not bear the annotation or any remark that will disclose the facts of the adoption. (Rule 55 A. O. No. 1, S. 1993)
Sources:
http://mastercitizen.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/nso-adoption-procedures/
http://nso.citizenservices.com.ph/faqs-answer-page#What-is-adoption
For those who want to change the surname of their children to a new one, adoption may be the option for you. read below:
What is adoption?
Adoption may be considered a process “to take into one’s family through legal means and raise as one own’s child”. (the Groiler International Dictionary, Vol. 1, 1981: Houghton Mifflin Company)
Adoption is also defined as “a judicial act which creats between two persons a relationship similar to that which result from legitimate paternity and filiation”. (A Valverde 473, quoted in Prasnick vs. Rep. of the Phil. 665)(Civil Law Reviewer by Desiderio P. Jurado, 1882 Twelfth Edition with Supplement published by National Book Store, Inc.)
Rule 1 OCRG Circular No. 90-2 dated March 28, 1990 likewise define Adoption as a legal process pursuant to P. D. No. 603, as amended by Executive order No. 209 (Family Code of the Philipines) in which a child’s legal right and duties toward his ntural parents are terminated and similar rights and duties toward his adoptive parents are substituted.
Adoption is always a juridical act (Lazati v. Campos, 92 SCRA 250) and it cannot be granted administratively. And because there can be no valid adoption without a court decree granting the same, a mere agreement of adoption between the adopters and the parents of the child is not a valid adoption (Ynigo v. Republic, 95 Phil. 244), nor the mere fact that the child has lived with the alleged adopter who had treated him like his own child sufficient t establish a valid adoption beteen the alleged adopter and the child (Lazatin v. Campos, 92 SCRA 250).
What are the requirements for registration of adoption?
The following documents shall be submitted to the local civil registrar for entry in the Register of Court Decrees:
1. Four (4) copies of judicial decree of adoption to be distributed as follows: first copy to the registrant, second copy for the local civil registrar making the entry, third copy to the local civil registrar of the place where the birth of the child was originally registered and the fourth copy to the Office of the Civil Registrar-General.
2. Four (4) copies of the birth certificate of the adopted to be distributed in accordance with the immediately preceding paragraph. (OCRG Circular No. 90-2 dated March 28 1990
What are the requirements that shall be complied with by concerned parties in the preparation and issuance of the Amended Certificate of Live Birth of the adopted child?
The following requirements shall be complied with by the concerned parties:
1. Certification of registration of the adoption decree to be issued by the civil registrar of the city or municipality where the adoption decree was recorded;
2. Authenticated copy of the adoption decree bearing registry number and date of registration;
3. Copy of the registered Certificate of Live Birth of the adopted child. If the birth of the adopted child was not previously registered in the civil registrar with the child’s natural parents under the rules governing delayed registration of birth;
4. If the adopted child was a foundling, the document to be amended in his Certificate of Live Birth based on the available information which may be obtained from the adopting parents, or from reliable and competent sources;
5. The amended Certificate of Live Birth shall be attached to the original Certificate of Live Birth of the child which is filed at the Office of the Civil Registrar; and
6. When the interested party requests a copy of the amended Certificate of Live Birth, the copy to be issued shall not bear the annotation or any remark that will disclose the facts of the adoption. (Rule 55 A. O. No. 1, S. 1993)
Sources:
http://mastercitizen.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/nso-adoption-procedures/
http://nso.citizenservices.com.ph/faqs-answer-page#What-is-adoption
Thursday, April 14, 2011
NSO Fixers Nabbed
Bonjour. Mabuhay.
Beware of Fixers. Be wise and smart.
News on the grapevine:
Published : Thursday, April 14, 2011 00:00
Written by : Melnie Ragasa-Jimena (http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/metro/3145-4-nso-fixers-nabbed)
Four alleged fixers at the National Statistics Office were arrested in an entrapment operation in Quezon City Tuesday afternoon.
Senior Insp. Roderick Medrano, chief of the General Assignments Section of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), identified those arrested as Connie Manalo, 56, Dina Balaoro, 42, Socorro Sibal, 37, and Christine Penaonas, 42, all of Manila.
Medrano said his men seized from the suspects the P1,000 marked money used in the entrapment, a brown envelope containing birth certificates, several stamps and birth certificate application forms.
He said the suspects admitted that they have been hanging around the NSO on East Avenue offering to fix documents for a fee.
PO2 Arman Labrador, who acted as a customer, appeared at the NSO and was approached by the suspects who offered to help him secure police clearance and other NSO documents. The suspects charged him P1,000 for their services.
After an agreement was reached, Labrador handed P1,000 to Manalo, then gave a hand signal to other police operatives who swooped down on the suspects.
Medrano said the entrapment was made following a request for assistance from Acting Assistant Ombudsman Joselito Fangon to round up fixers at the NSO.
Beware of Fixers. Be wise and smart.
News on the grapevine:
Published : Thursday, April 14, 2011 00:00
Written by : Melnie Ragasa-Jimena (http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/metro/3145-4-nso-fixers-nabbed)
Four alleged fixers at the National Statistics Office were arrested in an entrapment operation in Quezon City Tuesday afternoon.
Senior Insp. Roderick Medrano, chief of the General Assignments Section of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), identified those arrested as Connie Manalo, 56, Dina Balaoro, 42, Socorro Sibal, 37, and Christine Penaonas, 42, all of Manila.
Medrano said his men seized from the suspects the P1,000 marked money used in the entrapment, a brown envelope containing birth certificates, several stamps and birth certificate application forms.
He said the suspects admitted that they have been hanging around the NSO on East Avenue offering to fix documents for a fee.
PO2 Arman Labrador, who acted as a customer, appeared at the NSO and was approached by the suspects who offered to help him secure police clearance and other NSO documents. The suspects charged him P1,000 for their services.
After an agreement was reached, Labrador handed P1,000 to Manalo, then gave a hand signal to other police operatives who swooped down on the suspects.
Medrano said the entrapment was made following a request for assistance from Acting Assistant Ombudsman Joselito Fangon to round up fixers at the NSO.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
DSWD 4Ps Program: Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program
Bonjour. Mabuhay.
Find out about DSWD's Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program
- a poverty reduction and social development strategy of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14.
Targeting System
The poorest households in the municipalities are selected through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) implemented by the DSWD using the Proxy Means Test. This test determines the socio-economic category of the families by looking at certain proxy variables such as ownership of assets, type of housing, education of the household head, livelihood of the family and access to water and sanitation facilities.
Eligible Households
1. Residents of the poorest municipalities based on 2003 Small Area Estimates (SAE) of NSCB;
2. Households whose economic condition is equal to or below the provincial poverty threshold.
3. Households that have children 0-14 years old and/or have a pregnant woman at the time of assessment;
4. Households that agree to meet conditions specified in the program.
Set of Co-Responsibilities
To avail of the cash grants beneficiaries should comply with the following conditions:
1. Pregnant women must avail pre- and post-natal care and be attended during childbirth by a trained health professional;
2. Parents must attend Family Development Sessions (FDS);
3. 0-5 year old children must receive regular preventive health check-ups and vaccines;
4. 3-5 year old children must attend day care or pre-school classes at least 85% of the time.
5. 6-14 year old children must enroll in elementary or high school and must attend at least 85% of the time.
6. 6-14 years old children must receive deworming pills twice a year.
Program Coverage
Pantawid Pamilya operates in 80 provinces covering 734 municipalities and 62 key cities. The Pantawid Pamilya targets to cover 1 million households by end of 2010.
Linked from earlier blog.
Find out about DSWD's Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program
- a poverty reduction and social development strategy of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14.
Targeting System
The poorest households in the municipalities are selected through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) implemented by the DSWD using the Proxy Means Test. This test determines the socio-economic category of the families by looking at certain proxy variables such as ownership of assets, type of housing, education of the household head, livelihood of the family and access to water and sanitation facilities.
Eligible Households
1. Residents of the poorest municipalities based on 2003 Small Area Estimates (SAE) of NSCB;
2. Households whose economic condition is equal to or below the provincial poverty threshold.
3. Households that have children 0-14 years old and/or have a pregnant woman at the time of assessment;
4. Households that agree to meet conditions specified in the program.
Set of Co-Responsibilities
To avail of the cash grants beneficiaries should comply with the following conditions:
1. Pregnant women must avail pre- and post-natal care and be attended during childbirth by a trained health professional;
2. Parents must attend Family Development Sessions (FDS);
3. 0-5 year old children must receive regular preventive health check-ups and vaccines;
4. 3-5 year old children must attend day care or pre-school classes at least 85% of the time.
5. 6-14 year old children must enroll in elementary or high school and must attend at least 85% of the time.
6. 6-14 years old children must receive deworming pills twice a year.
Program Coverage
Pantawid Pamilya operates in 80 provinces covering 734 municipalities and 62 key cities. The Pantawid Pamilya targets to cover 1 million households by end of 2010.
Linked from earlier blog.
PCSO Individual Medical Assistance Program (IMAP)
Bonjour. Mabuhay.
If you know someone who is in need of medical assistance, here’s a PCSO service that you can refer to: the IMAP.
Under this program, medical assistance is given to individual patients through the issuance of guarantee letters to hospitals where the patients are confined. A guarantee letter is a certification issued to hospitals for a particular charity patient under the PCSO medical assistance program where the agency assumes the obligation of settling the cost of hospitalization, including the medicines, medical, surgical or blood supplies, and diagnostic procedures.
OBJECTIVES
General : Restoration of social functioning (Physical recovery) through medical assistance
Specific : Provide assistance for hospitalization expenses, laboratory procedures and purchase of medicines, chemo drugs, dialysis solutions, antibiotics, implants, devices and other medical needs.
DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS
• Letter Request to Chairman/General Manager
• Medical Abstract
• Bill/Quotation/Costing from Hospital Pharmacy/Supplies
• Laboratory Request/Medicine Prescription
• Endorsement/Acceptance letter from Hospital Social Services/Credit Collection Office
What are the Requirements for Medical Assistance?
Request for Medicines
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
• Original/or certified true photocopy of medical abstract duly signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Prescription duly signed by the attending physician with costing from the hospital pharmacy included:
In cases wherein medicines are unavailable from the Hospital Pharmacy, a Certification on unavailability of medicines from the Hospital Pharmacy must be submitted to PCSO.
• Photocopy of identification card with latest picture of the requesting person with his/her signature indicated at the back.
Request for Laboratory/Diagnostic Procedures
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
• Original/or certified true photocopy of medical abstract duly signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Request from the attending physician duly signed (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Official Price Quotation from the Laboratory Section/Department of the Hospital
In cases wherein Laboratory/Diagnostic Procedure is unavailable from the hospital, a Certification on unavailability of the procedure from the hospital must be submitted to PCSO.
• Photocopy of identification card with latest picture of the requesting person with his/her signature indicated at the back.
Request for Payment Hospitalization
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
• Original/or certified true photocopy of medical abstract duly signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Statement of Account/Hospital Bill certified by the billing Officer/Credit Supervisor.
• Endorsement letter from the hospital’s Social Service if there is any, or from the Credit and Collection Officer for Pay patients.
Request for Hearing Aid
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
• Original copy of Audiological Evaluation Report duly signed by Audiometrist
• One or two price quotations from any hearing aid centers
• Photocopy of identification card with latest picture of the requesting person with his/her signature
Request for Implants/Prosthetic Devices/Wheelchair
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
a. implant/phosthesis request
- Original or certified true photocopy of medical abstract duly signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
b. wheelchair request
- Original or certified true photocopy of medical abstract or medical certificate with wheelchair specification signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Two (2) official price quotations from two (2) different companies
• One (1) whole body picture of requesting patient for request for wheelchair and prosthetic devices.
Request for Dialysis
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
• Original/or certified true photocopy of medical abstract duly signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Endorsement letter from a Dialysis Center or Hospital where PCSO allots an Endowment Fund
• Official Price Quotation from the Dialysis Center/Hospital
• Certification of Acceptance from Dialysis Center/Hospital
• In cases wherein dialysis solution and/or post-operative medicines is unavailable from the hospital, a Certification on unavailability of the dialysis solution and/or post-operative medicines from the hospital must be submitted to the PCSO.
• Photocopy of identification card with latest picture of the requesting person with his/her signature indicated at the back.
Source: http://www.pcso.gov.ph/imap.html
If you know someone who is in need of medical assistance, here’s a PCSO service that you can refer to: the IMAP.
Under this program, medical assistance is given to individual patients through the issuance of guarantee letters to hospitals where the patients are confined. A guarantee letter is a certification issued to hospitals for a particular charity patient under the PCSO medical assistance program where the agency assumes the obligation of settling the cost of hospitalization, including the medicines, medical, surgical or blood supplies, and diagnostic procedures.
OBJECTIVES
General : Restoration of social functioning (Physical recovery) through medical assistance
Specific : Provide assistance for hospitalization expenses, laboratory procedures and purchase of medicines, chemo drugs, dialysis solutions, antibiotics, implants, devices and other medical needs.
DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS
• Letter Request to Chairman/General Manager
• Medical Abstract
• Bill/Quotation/Costing from Hospital Pharmacy/Supplies
• Laboratory Request/Medicine Prescription
• Endorsement/Acceptance letter from Hospital Social Services/Credit Collection Office
What are the Requirements for Medical Assistance?
Request for Medicines
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
• Original/or certified true photocopy of medical abstract duly signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Prescription duly signed by the attending physician with costing from the hospital pharmacy included:
In cases wherein medicines are unavailable from the Hospital Pharmacy, a Certification on unavailability of medicines from the Hospital Pharmacy must be submitted to PCSO.
• Photocopy of identification card with latest picture of the requesting person with his/her signature indicated at the back.
Request for Laboratory/Diagnostic Procedures
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
• Original/or certified true photocopy of medical abstract duly signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Request from the attending physician duly signed (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Official Price Quotation from the Laboratory Section/Department of the Hospital
In cases wherein Laboratory/Diagnostic Procedure is unavailable from the hospital, a Certification on unavailability of the procedure from the hospital must be submitted to PCSO.
• Photocopy of identification card with latest picture of the requesting person with his/her signature indicated at the back.
Request for Payment Hospitalization
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
• Original/or certified true photocopy of medical abstract duly signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Statement of Account/Hospital Bill certified by the billing Officer/Credit Supervisor.
• Endorsement letter from the hospital’s Social Service if there is any, or from the Credit and Collection Officer for Pay patients.
Request for Hearing Aid
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
• Original copy of Audiological Evaluation Report duly signed by Audiometrist
• One or two price quotations from any hearing aid centers
• Photocopy of identification card with latest picture of the requesting person with his/her signature
Request for Implants/Prosthetic Devices/Wheelchair
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
a. implant/phosthesis request
- Original or certified true photocopy of medical abstract duly signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
b. wheelchair request
- Original or certified true photocopy of medical abstract or medical certificate with wheelchair specification signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Two (2) official price quotations from two (2) different companies
• One (1) whole body picture of requesting patient for request for wheelchair and prosthetic devices.
Request for Dialysis
• Letter of request addressed to the Hon. Chairman and/or General Manager
• Original/or certified true photocopy of medical abstract duly signed by the attending physician. (Note: Include physician’s license number)
• Endorsement letter from a Dialysis Center or Hospital where PCSO allots an Endowment Fund
• Official Price Quotation from the Dialysis Center/Hospital
• Certification of Acceptance from Dialysis Center/Hospital
• In cases wherein dialysis solution and/or post-operative medicines is unavailable from the hospital, a Certification on unavailability of the dialysis solution and/or post-operative medicines from the hospital must be submitted to the PCSO.
• Photocopy of identification card with latest picture of the requesting person with his/her signature indicated at the back.
Source: http://www.pcso.gov.ph/imap.html
Facebook Page: Pinoy Beneficio
Bonjour. Mabuhay.
Found this FB page that offers the following info:
Pinoy Beneficio aims to help our fellow Pinoys in finding the answers to their questions regarding GSIS/SSS, Philhealth and other benefits.
Could be a useful page that you can visit to get updated information regarding the mentioned government services.
Will keep a close watch for you as well. Name’s a good clincher :)
Follow this link for a quick view: http://www.facebook.com/pinoy.beneficio
Have a good day.
Found this FB page that offers the following info:
Pinoy Beneficio aims to help our fellow Pinoys in finding the answers to their questions regarding GSIS/SSS, Philhealth and other benefits.
Could be a useful page that you can visit to get updated information regarding the mentioned government services.
Will keep a close watch for you as well. Name’s a good clincher :)
Follow this link for a quick view: http://www.facebook.com/pinoy.beneficio
Have a good day.
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