Climaco urges residents to register for national ID

MAYOR BENG Climaco urged residents to register online to get their national identification card or the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys), the government’s unified, centralized form of identification for Filipino citizens and foreigners residing in the country.

Climaco said the online registration, which is free, can be accessed by residents through this link: https://register.philsys.gov.ph or at the website of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).   

She added that the PSA also set up a registration center in SM Mindpro in partnership with the local government and the mall owner to make it easier for residents to avail of the national identification card. But prior appointments are needed for this. 

Aside from the SM City, the PSA put up a registration center at its Zamboanga Office along San Jose Road in Barangay Baliwasan. Other registration centers are at the Arena Blanco Day Care Center, Labuan Multi-purpose Hall, and Lumbangan Barangay Hall. 

The mayor said PSA is also planning to open more registration centers to cope with the volume of registrants. 

The PSA also warned the public not to entertain fixers after it received reports that unscrupulous individuals and groups are offering and collecting fees via different social media platforms to book online appointments for Philippine Identification System.

It said the registration is free of charge and provided the following steps on how to get the national identification card from online appointment (Step 1 Registration), personal appearance for biometrics capture (Step 2 Registration), and delivery of the Philippine Identification Card (Step 3 Registration).

Only PSA-PhilSys employees are allowed to handle official transactions on the PhilSys registration.

The public is encouraged to be vigilant against these scams and report via PhilSys hotline number 1388 any individual or group offering and collecting fees for online registration, according to National Statistician and Civil Registrar General Dennis Mapa. (Zamboanga Post)