Procedure for Issuance of Marriage, Birth, Death Certificates and Certificates of
No Marriage from the National Statistics Office (NSO)
May 2004
For the information of the Filipino Community and the general public in HK SAR, following is the procedure
for the issuance of marraige, birth, and death certificates and certificate of no marriage (cenomar) as provided
by the Office of Director of Civil Registration, National Statistics Office (NSO):
Request for the issuance of any of the above mentioned certificates can be made via letter request or e-census service.
1. For Letter Request
Application will be filled by sending a letter to the NSO. Payments will be in bank draft, demand or cashier's draft
check with a charge of US$ 20 per copy of the document. The requested copy will be sent through mail and in case the
requesting party wants the copy to forwarded by courier, there will be additional charges.
2. For E-Census Service
Application may likewise be coursed through the NSO's internet facility at www.e-census.com.ph. Once access is gained to
the internet facility, the applicant can file requests for birth, death, marriage certificates and certificate of no
marrriage. Payments for the request and handling fee is to be made by depositing the amount to any of the Land Bank of
the Philippines correspondent banks as follows:
- American Express International Banking Corporation-New York
- Bank of America - New York City
- BAnk of Hawaii International - New York City
- Citibank - New York City
- Chase Bank - New York City
- First Union Core States - Philadelphia
- Bank of Hawaii - Saipan
- Westpac Banking Corporation - New South Wales
- Hong Kong Bank - Queen's Rd. Central, Hong Kong
- BancoNazionale Del Lavoro - Roma Aurelio, Italia
- American Express Bank - Tokyo, Japan
- Union Bank of California - Tokyo, Japan
- Bank of Hawaii - Tokyo, Japan
- Fuji Bank Limited - Tokyo, Japan
- Saudi American Bank - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Cho Hung Bank - Seoul, South Korea
- Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation - Singapore
- Development Bank of Singapore
- United Overseas Bank - Singapore
- Lloyds Bank PLC - London, UK
- American Express GMBH - Frankfurt
- Berenberg Bank - Hamburg
- International Commercial Bank of China - Taipei, Taiwan
- Land Bank of Taiwan - Taipei, Taiwan
- Bank of Hawaii - Agana, Guam
- Banco Popular Espaņol - Madrid
In case there is no correspondent bank in the applicant's area, any local bank can be
used so long as it has facilities to transfer payments to the NSO account. In case the
services of non-correspondent banks will be used, following is the data required for
the bank transfer:
| Currency: |
US Dollars($) |
| Amount: |
Amount in words and in figures |
| Payee Bank: |
LAND BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES |
| Address: |
313 Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, |
| For Further Credit to: |
Land Bank of the Philippines |
|
West Triangle Branch, Quezon Avenue |
|
Quezon City, Philippines |
| Name of the Beneficiary: |
NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE |
| Message: |
CRD Payment: (birth, marriage, death or cenomar-Certificate of no
marriage request) |
| Owner of CRD (applicant): |
Name and address of the applicant if other than the remitter (applicant) |
| Telephone No.: |
Telephone No. of the owner of the document |
| OR remitter Manner of Spending: |
Via Cable/Telex to the Land Bank of the Philippines |
|
Routing No. TLBPPPHMMAXX |
| Sending Instruction: |
Value today please remit US Dollar ($) ___________ |
|
To: Land Bank of the Philippines |
|
For Credit to: National Statistics Office |
|
Account Number: 0234-0026-35 |
After the payment has been deposited in the bank, the applicant must inform the NSO regarding
the details of the remittance including the remitter's name, date remitted, amount remitted,
and the name of the originating bank.
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