{"id":38702,"date":"2019-01-17T08:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T00:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=38702"},"modified":"2019-01-17T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:34:45","slug":"dfa-removes-birth-certificate-requirement-for-passport-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/01\/17\/dfa-removes-birth-certificate-requirement-for-passport-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA Removes Birth Certificate Requirement for Passport Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. officially signed the department order (DO 03-2019), last January 15, 2019, to\u00a0abolish the certificate of live birth as a requirement in renewing passports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the newly signed DO, old passport holders are not required to pass their birth certificate for a passport renewal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2018\/09\/28\/passport-application-101-requirements-to-get-a-passport\/\" target=\"_blank\">Passport Application 101: Requirements to Get a Philippine Passport<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38832\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Dfa-chief2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"729\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Dfa-chief2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Dfa-chief2-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Dfa-chief2-768x601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. \/Image from DFA Facebook page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, there are exceptions based on the department order.\u00a0 Cases such as first-time passport application, renewal application for lost and mutilated passports, renewal application requiring changes in passport entries, renewal application of old brown and green passports bearing no complete middle name, and applicants in the DFA&#8217;s Watchlist would still be required to pass their birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38805\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Passport-1-744x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Passport-1-744x1024.jpg 744w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Passport-1-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Passport-1-768x1057.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Passport-1.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE grabbed from DFA Sec. Teodoro Locsin Jr.&#8217;s Twitter account<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI know there are many obstacles in getting fast passports. I know all over the world passports are swiftly given, renewals are automatic. No other requirements are imposed, but give us time to get things done,&#8221; he lamented while signing the department order in a press interview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For the said exceptions, all passport requirements that are covered by the Passport Act, IRR, and other existing circulars would stay unchanged.\u00a0 Also, please note that Consular offices and Foreign Service outposts may ask for additional requirements to prove Philippine citizenship or proof of application for minors.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1059017\" target=\"_blank\">pna.gov.ph<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. officially signed the department order (DO 03-2019), last January 15, 2019, to abolish the certificate of live birth as a requirement in renewing passports. According to the newly signed DO, old passport holders are not required to pass to their birth certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7856,7854,2918,7855],"class_list":["post-38702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-dfa-passport","tag-palace","tag-passport-renewal","tag-passport-renewal-requirements"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/passport-1-e1547717665313.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38702"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38838,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38702\/revisions\/38838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}