Here’s the Valid IDs List You Can Use as Reference in Completing Requirements
VALID IDS LIST – Listed below are the primary and secondary identification cards and documents accepted in the Philippines.
Most transactions in the Philippines which include loan applications, purchasing a house or car, enrolling in a college course, booking a flight ticket, processing a government agency claim, and a lot more require proof of identity. This can be done by presenting a valid ID.
The valid IDs list in the Philippines is actually quite long and divided into two. There are identification cards and documents that are use to prove the identity of a person which are considered “primary”. There are also those that are regarded as “secondary IDs”.
Usually, transactions and processes like loan applications require either one (1) valid primary ID or identification documents or two (2) secondary IDs which must compose all the information required by an entity. Most of the identification cards and documents in the list of primary IDs are government-issued.
Here are the lists of valid IDs in the Philippines, primary and secondary, which you can use as reference in completing your requirements:
Primary Valid IDs
- Philippine Passport – Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)
- Driver’s License – Land Transportation Office (LTO)
- UMID – Single ID Card of all SSS, GSIS, Philhealth and PAG-IBIG Members
- Voter’s ID – Commission on Election (COMELEC)
- SSS Card – Social Security System (SSS)
- GSIS Card – Government Service Insurance System (GSIS)
- Digitized Postal ID – Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost)
- PRC ID – Professional Regulations Commission
- OFW ID – Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
- OWWA ID – Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA)
- IBP ID – Integrated Bar of the Philippines
- Digitized BIR Taxpayer’s ID – Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)
- Senior Citizen’s ID Card – Office of Senior Citizen’s Affairs (OSCA)
- Diplomat ID – Philippine Embassy
In the presentation of secondary IDs, banks, lending companies, government agencies, and other entities usually ask for two (2) as one (1) ID may not contain all the needed information for proof of identity. Here are the secondary IDs that you can present in the absence of a primary ID:
Secondary IDs
- PhilHealth ID Card – Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
- PhilSys ID / National ID – Philippine Identification System
- Student’s ID – School Registrar’s Office
- Solo Parent ID – Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)
- NBI Clearance – National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)
- Barangay Certification – Barangay Hall
- Seaman’s Book – Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA)
- POEA Card – Philippine Overseas Employment Association (POEA)
- DSWD Certification – Department of Social Welfare and Development
- NCWDP Certification – National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons
- PLRA ID – Philippine Leisure and Retirement Authority
- Marriage Contract – Philippine Statistics Authority
- TIN ID Card – Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)
- Person with Disability (PWD) ID Card – National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) or Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)
- Police Clearance – Philippine National Police (PNP)
- Community Tax Certificate (Cedula) – Barangay Hall
- Alien Certificate of Registration (ACR) or Immigrant Certification of Registration – Bureau of Immigration
- Consular ID – Philippine Embassy
- PRA Special Resident Retiree Visa – Philippine Retirement Authority
- Firearms Licence – PNP Firearms and Explosives Office
- PSA Birth Certificate – Philippine Statistics Authority (How To Get PSA Birth Certificate)
