Help on requirements for admission to school in Philippines

[tomigaoka 8]

I'm helping someone applying for a university in Philippines, 2 of the requirements are below

 

4. Original Identification Certificate and Order;

6. World Health Organization International Certificate of Vaccination or Phrophylaxis;

 

Coming from CALIFORNIA, i dont know where to request those. 

 

Different schools have different requirements. Its a PAIN!!! The applicant is dual filam citizen

[confusedshoes 193]

For the ICVP, seems like they can order it from the CDC website and fill it out?

 

For the original identification certificate, found this on one of the many Philippine consulate websites (this one's on the Calgary one) :

 

I also found comments by the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco about it on their Facebook page. Your Filam friend can request it there or Bureau of Immigration in Manila.

 

Otherwise, they should reach out to the university and get clarification about requirements they're not sure about.

Edited August 17, 2023 by confusedshoes
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[tomigaoka 8]

10 hours ago, confusedshoes said:

For the ICVP, seems like they can order it from the CDC website and fill it out?

 

For the original identification certificate, found this on one of the many Philippine consulate websites (this one's on the Calgary one) :

 

I also found comments by the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco about it on their Facebook page. Your Filam friend can request it there or Bureau of Immigration in Manila.

 

Otherwise, they should reach out to the university and get clarification about requirements they're not sure about.

 

 

Salamat sa reply, so the OIC seems to be the one that proves his dual citizenship. It make sense.

 

Now for ICVP, yes i can get the card. To fill it up it just another issue unless i just back it up with all those covid19 vaccine card and his other vaccine paperworks history.

 

It's so weird they are asking for this ICVP. Thanks again

Edited August 17, 2023 by tomigaoka

[confusedshoes 193]

On 8/17/2023 at 9:22 AM, tomigaoka said:

It's so weird they are asking for this ICVP. Thanks again

 

I don't know how familiar you are with the country but this is not weird for the Philippines, land of red tape where job ads for retail positions paying less than $300 per month require applicants to be graduates of 4 year degrees. Nearly every thing you need to get done (usually a simple straightforward process in other countries) gets expanded into multipart endeavours requiring you to shuttle back and forth to different offices, branches and even islands to get that one signature, stamp, notary, certificate, apostille, second valid ID, certified copy of a copy of the original or whatever else they keep coming up with- to be submitted in triplicates or more. Your very valid on-hand card- acceptable elsewhere- is not enough, you would definitely need to also have the specific other card that this organization requires. Heck even paying for an item at department store or grocery involves a conveyor belt of multiple human hands scanning, rechecking the pricetag, scribbling on your receipt, stamping your receipt, stapling another piece of paper to it and finally stapling it to your bag and adding another special sticker or tape to the bag and stamping or scribbling on that too.

 

Things take months or years because of the extra steps and it's rare to find someone who is empowered to apply obvious logical changes to how things get done for no other reason than 'sorry ma'am this is how it is here'.

 

Most places expect you to jump through all the hoops, universities included.