Catubuan reiterated that the request for replacement of damaged PhilSys ID is free of charge.
The printing of the national ID is now managed by the PSA-Central Office and the replacement for the defective ones would take at least a month to arrive at the PSA here.
A holder of the damaged PhilSys ID could go to the Fixed Registration Center (FRC) of the PSA-Aklan and request for its replacement.
Per the guidelines of PSA, a PhilSys ID is said to be damaged or defective if the plastic cover is peeled off, the photo is hazy or does not match the cardholder, or it has been washed out that caused some entries to be erased.
Peter Mangilog, information officer of PSA-Aklan, explained that damaged national IDs qualified to be replaced by the agency are those that do not require updating of cardholder’s demographic and biometric information.
