Guilty.
By rakski
@rakski (156200)
Philippines
September 16, 2020 1:16am CST
My parents-in-law are so obvious that they are guilty of what they had not done years ago. If you are asking what should they be guilty of?
Well, both their children, my SIL and my husband have erroneous birth certificate. Dor my SIL, her birth certificate was registered late. Her son was 7 years old when they registered it. But we found out 2-3 years ago that my SIL have a birth certificate but with a different surname (father is different).
As for my hubby, his first name and middle name are erroneous that we have to correct it. We found this out early 2019 and to fix this needs a lot of time for the processing.
It has been one year and two months in processing and we still not have the corrected one yet.
Now, my parents-in-law sounded they were mad and hurt that their kids do no believe in them.
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23 responses
@piyushbhatia1 (11695)
• India
16 Sep 20
How much importance these things have there?
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@piyushbhatia1 (11695)
• India
16 Sep 20
@rakski fine. Is there any dedicated government website that can make it smooth
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
16 Sep 20
@piyushbhatia1 it is now processing. We request for it last July 2019. It should have been released or fixed last March but the pandemic affected all the process
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
16 Sep 20
In the past, people actually did not care much about such things
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
16 Sep 20
Have you proccessed it? Mine took one month to process in correcting my name. It's our local civil registrar processing it.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
@rakski I don't know but I paid them for the needed fees.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
@Nakitakona oh it works for you so all is well.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
16 Sep 20
Many reasons why parents did neglect their duty to register their children's birth promptly. No use blaming them now that they are old. The circumstances then could have been trying. Be patient with parents.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
16 Sep 20
@rakski how did he end up with so many different names? were they processed by different people at the time?
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
16 Sep 20
@hereandthere he found out after 40 years that he has the "Ii" (the second) and his middle name was the middle name of his grandfather. I have no idea what went wrong because I was born half a year earlier than him and did not have problems with my birth certificate
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
16 Sep 20
I know that. But given the situation with them, they all had the chance because for once they promised to have it change while the kids were in school but since the school did not followed it up, they did not fix it. It is quite awful to know that my husband's birth certificate has different name as what he know. The baptismal certificate and confirmation certificate has another name different to the birth certificate's name and his known name. It is quite complicated to say the least. And I am the now processing this now after 40+ years.
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@flapiz (23530)
• United Kingdom
16 Sep 20
@rakski I see that’s tough. That’s the problem with birth certificates in the old days. So many errors. @hereandthere Nope she just changed her name since it was easier.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
16 Sep 20
so is your mother's birth certificate fixed now @flapiz?
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
16 Sep 20
Not suddenly needing. It should have done correctly at birth. Ehehe. My husband can't apply passport and other government IDs that need both certificate. At the same time, it will be a problem if he will claim something and it need birth certificate because the name he has now and the one written in his birth certificate is different
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
my birth certificate had only me with one name. my baptismal certificate had me with 2 names, but this one caught fire in our college of nursing department. now, i carry my single name. son has 2 names.
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@brokenbee (11937)
• Philippines
16 Sep 20
Oh.. I didn't know it is still hard to correct entries in our birth certificates. I thought it is faster now.
My mother also had an issue with her birth certificate before. Yup, it also took too long and she had to go through a lot of process like going to court for several hearings. Aside from the tedious work, it's also expensive.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
@brokenbee Same thing with my husband. We are changing the ones in birth certificate and follow the name he is using now since most his ID and other documents are in that name.
@brokenbee (11937)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
@rakski Oh yes, there were fixers before but my mother went through the legal process.
Actually she had two options before - to follow what's in the birth certificate but had to fix other documents to coincide with the birth certificate or to correct the birth certificate and follow what's in the other documents. She chose correct the birth certificate.
And it's good there was no COVID yet at that time. We had to travel to different cities to fix it because her place of birth, where she lived and where we live now are different. And we had to travel to NCR to get the copy after it was fixed. It was really tedious.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
17 Sep 20
Here in our country people didn't care much about those things earlier. It has got regularized only in last few decades. Sorry that you have to go through such long wait and trouble to get the correction done.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
23 Sep 20
@rakski Yes totally agree. We need to have correct updated documents else we might land in problem. Hope it gets fixed for you soon.
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@jayanth_77 (7179)
• India
16 Sep 20
you can correct the name with the help of a lawyer but changing age is not possible if not corrected while joining school in childhood.
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@jayanth_77 (7179)
• India
17 Sep 20
@rakski only name can be changed and not age. isn't it?
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@jefferson126 (3670)
• Shenzhen, China
17 Sep 20
sorry about your SIL and husband suffered,probably your husband's parents made this mistake unintentionally,sometimes,the official clerk will mistake the registeration by chance,you both should have more forgiveness to family.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
17 Sep 20
I understand that it may not be their full fault at the time of birth. There were many human errors back then. But don't you think 40 years do not give them enough time to fix this? I knew that when my husband was in primary school they got an affidavit about my husband's birth certificate so he can be admitted in school. That means they were aware of this even then. I do not have any grudge with them, I pity my hubby and sil.
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