My name is Michelle V. Sumapig, my maiden name should be de Gracia but when I got my documents for passport processing it was Jaudian my father's middle name.
Hello everyone, it's me again 
It started when I got my documents to apply for a passport. I already knew my middle name was not from my mother long before I married. The Registry office accepted it for the reason that my middle name would be changed after I got married.
I was confident to bring all my documents to the Department of Foreign Affairs where I was checked and it went well. Took a picture of the passport and will wait fifteen days to get it. After two days from processing the DFA called me and questioned my middle name. And it was rejected so, that I should have my mother's maiden name and not from my father. They need a new PSA birth certificate with my mother's maiden name on it.
I went to our local registrar and asked for help. Securing everything from my mom's birth certificate and my siblings together with some lawyer's affidavit. I already spent money for processing and I should go back to the place where I was born to bring my documents and start the process.
So I travel from Naga to Basay Negros Oriental where I was born. It was a twelve-hour travel by sea and by land. When I reached there The following day I went to see a registrar and asked for help with my documents. He told me that under RN04 I should get a lawyer and impugn my birth certificate or vice versa.
Impugned means to validate the truth that I am a daughter of my mother etc. It was a long process to wait, it may take six months to one year and then the decision will be provided. We decided to impugn it first to the Philippine Statistic Authority (PSA) and after a few months to be brought to a lawyer and sent it back to PSA for finalization.
It was so discouraging to hear and wait for six months to one year before another processing was made. Me and my husband are planning to spend our graduation in Singapore this coming November. By God's grace we were able to graduate in our Masters in Ministry. The school will be having two graduation programs, in Singapore where it was based, and in Iloilo their extension school.
As I said I spent money already for the processing. It was hard on my part knowing I could not fly together with my husband for graduation 馃槶馃槶馃槶.
After all my documents were passed on to PSA I went home bringing the chance that a certificate of petition for correction would be accepted by the DFA but sadly they don't accept it. All they wanted was a new PSA stating my real middle name. I accepted the fact that only a year from now was my chance of getting a passport. Maybe it was God's plan and His will so I let him control everything.
Questions keep asking in my mind why in the world people who were writing our birth certificates during the 80s always had wrong entries. I have encountered a lot of people having problems with clerical errors during this time. We must admit that it was not that high-end machines they were using. Some are even born in the house and not in clinics and hospitals.
Do you know someone who has the same problem as me? Or errors on their birth certificates also. Share it in the box below and please reblog and have some upvote on my story.
Have a great day everyone, see you next time.
