03 April 2024 – GUIMARAS. The Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) registered a total of 5,996 registrants in the Philippine Identification (National ID) in 2023, facilitated by the Guimaras Provincial Statistical Office.

The cumulative number of registered individuals in Guimaras was 149,405 since July 2021, accounting for 79.53% based on the 2020 Census on Population and Household (CPH).

"We have a total of 103,541 registrants in 2021, 39,868 in 2022, and 5,996 in 2023," Provincial Statistics Officer Nelida B. Losare said.

Among the 5,996 total registered in PhilSys last year, 1,722 registered in Buenavista, 1,171 in Nueva Valencia, 2,056 in Jordan, 641 in San Lorenzo, and 356 in Sibunag.

Step 2 registration went through different strategies such as mobile registration, house-to-house visits, co-location strategy, school mobile registration, and PhilSys on Wheels.

The implementation of Step 2 registration began in 2021 through RA 11055 or the PhilSys Act, which aims to establish a single national identification system for all citizens and resident aliens of the Republic of the Philippines.

“This helps registrants with peeled-off front-facing photos to request for replacement of their PhilID free of charge. The process is that the registrant will come to the nearest PhilSys Registration Center in the area show his/her defective PhilID and fill out a request form for replacement. The registrant will surrender his/her defective PhilID for processing. While the PhilID is on-process registrants were issued ePhilID," Losare said.

“PSA PhilSys Guimaras also started accepting requests for Transaction Number (TRN) retrieval in September 2023 for registered individuals who lost their transaction slips. First name, middle name, last name, and birthday are the needed information to process the request which will take 2 to 5 days," Losare added.

Losare also expressed that the implemented strategies or saturation moves of PhilSys Guimaras helped reach all unregistered individuals and included them in the government's central identification platform for all Filipino citizens and resident aliens of the Philippines.

Meanwhile, Losare appreciated the efforts of PhilSys Guimaras in finding ways to reach the target number of registrants before the 1st-semester ends.