The Philippine Identification Sytem (PhilSys) registration personnel of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) La Union registered a total of 586,201 Filipinos five years old and over in the PhilSys Step 2 Registration in La Union as of June 30, 2022 since its first implementation in first quarter of 2021.

From the last week of January to June 30, 2022, the City of San Fernando recorded the highest number of registrants who completed PhilSys Step 2 registration in the province with 19,976.  It was followed by the municipalities of Bauang and Agoo with 10,226 and 4,991 registrants, respectively. (Table 1)

Meanwhile, as of May 27, 2022, a total of 248,265 PhilID cards were already delivered by the Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost) to successful registrants in all the city/municipalities of La Union.

PhilSys registration comprises of three steps: Step 1 is the collection of the demographic information; Step 2 is the validation of demographic information using PhilSys accepted supporting documents; and Step 3 is the issuance of the PhilSys Serial Number and the PhilID. The two steps involve the cooperation of both the applicant and the PSA while for the third step, PSA partners with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for the production of the PhilID and the PhilPost for its door-to-door delivery.

The PSA encourages all Filipinos in the province to complete the PhilSys Step 1 and Step 2 Registration to be able to have the PhilID card that they can use in transacting with the government and private sector to avail various services.  The PhilSys Step 2 registration is conducted through mobile and institutional registrations in various barangays, public schools, public markets, malls, different government and non-government agencies, and the private sector.   

SGD. DANITES E. TEÑIDO, Ph.D. 
Chief Statistical Specialist