Foreigners who were able to acquire Filipino citizenship practically overnight paid as much as P300,000 to obtain fraudulent birth certificates, Sen. Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian said on Friday as he called for the suspension of the policy that allows late registration of birth.
Gatchalian cited the modus operandi after the National Bureau of Investigation uncovered a scheme allegedly used by some 200 Chinese nationals to secure certificates of live birth from the civil registry of Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur province, from 2018 to 2019.
He said the NBI discovery was “very concerning” as it suggested the existence of syndicates within the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and local civil registries.
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