NSO BC has her last name wrong

[~Johnny~ 27]

So we just received her NSO Birth Certificate and she was worried before about this being a problem because she has an annotated Civil Birth certificate. Basically when she was very young, her current step-father legitimized her and she took his last name. She had an NSO authenticated civil birth certificate that she used to get her passport. The DFA kept that one (her uncle got her passport and didn't make copies of her birth certifcate, he just gave DFA the original). She also has the NBI Clearance. She still has her original annotated civil birth certifcate that has her orginal last name and has the official annotation that says her last name is changed to her step-father's last name. We thought that since NSO authenticated the certificate used for her passport that they must have updated their database with her corrected last name. I guess not... So now her mother is planning a trip to Mindanao to the NSO Office where my fiance has her records, plus her mom has a friend in NSO office down there, and she says she can get a changed NSO certifcate, but it will not be cheap. Anyone ever had issues with NSO Birth Certifcates? If she has an official annotated Civil Certifcate, isn't it just a matter of taking it to NSO office in Manila and having them make the correction? Couldn't she do this when she's in Manila for her medical?

I know, I read that PH government is corrupt and everyone there is used to giving government employees little pay-offs for things, but this seems a bit extreme. The local Civil wants P1,550 per letter to change her last name on her Civil Certificate and give an un-annotated certificate.

Edited March 18, 2010 by ~Johnny~

[bowgirl 8]

So we just received her NSO Birth Certificate and she was worried before about this being a problem because she has an annotated Civil Birth certificate. Basically when she was very young, her current step-father legitimized her and she took his last name. She had an NSO authenticated civil birth certificate that she used to get her passport. The DFA kept that one (her uncle got her passport and didn't make copies of her birth certifcate, he just gave DFA the original). She also has the NBI Clearance. She still has her original annotated civil birth certifcate that has her orginal last name and has the official annotation that says her last name is changed to her step-father's last name. We thought that since NSO authenticated the certificate used for her passport that they must have updated their database with her corrected last name. I guess not... So now her mother is planning a trip to Mindanao to the NSO Office where my fiance has her records, plus her mom has a friend in NSO office down there, and she says she can get a changed NSO certifcate, but it will not be cheap. Anyone ever had issues with NSO Birth Certifcates? If she has an official annotated Civil Certifcate, isn't it just a matter of taking it to NSO office in Manila and having them make the correction? Couldn't she do this when she's in Manila for her medical?

I know, I read that PH government is corrupt and everyone there is used to giving government employees little pay-offs for things, but this seems a bit extreme. The local Civil wants P1,550 per letter to change her last name on her Civil Certificate and give an un-annotated certificate.

This thing happened to me also. My name was corrected in 2001 with annotation from local civil registry office. They said they will forward it to NSO to update their database but when I requested for authenticated birth cert in 2009, that's the only time I discovered that I still have my mispelled name in their records. They asked me to go back to city hall's LCR and ask for endorsement letter with photocopies of other documents like certificate of finality and submit them to NSO. It took 2 weeks before they finally release the corrected and authenticated birth certificate. I paid 120.00 I think for the copy since we already paid for the whole process years ago.