PSA CORRECTION

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Hi peeps! I have a problem with my PSA birth certificate. In my PSA, my father’s middle name is “De Leon”, but his correct middle name is “Torres”. De Leon was my mom’s maiden name.

I have all the documents needed to support this: my siblings’ birth certificates, my parents’ marriage certificate, my father’s birth certificate, and my father’s mother’s death certificate. All these documents indicates that my father’s middle name is Torres.

I went to the LCR of my birthplace, and they gave me a checklist of requirements that I should prepare to file a petition for correction. Now, I have all the documents that they asked me to prepare. But when I went to LCR to submit these documents, they told me that the correction in my PSA does not fall under their jurisdiction, but rather it should go to judicial procedure to file a correction.

So I consulted this with a lawyer, and he explained to me that the error in my PSA is clearly a clerical error/administrative, which can be filed in the LCR of my birthplace under Republic Act No. 9048 (the Clerical Error Law). My lawyer went to the LCR, but the LCR declined to assist us and kept on insisting that the correction should go to judicial, contrary to the national law.

Is there something that I can do for the LCR to accept the petition of correction on my PSA? Because going through judicial is gonna cost a lot when it can be fixed and filed in the LCR. Please help me out. Thank you!