29 January 2024 – ROMBLON, ROMBLON. Philippine Statistics Authority - Romblon Statistical Office reported that, as of December 31, 2023, Romblon PSO has issued 209,322 ePhilIDs to all registered Romblomanons (28,604 in mode 1 and 180,718 in mode 2). 

There had been 111,657 issuances in 2023 alone had been successfully completed. Meanwhile, the December 2023 goal coverage, represented as 20.24 percent (1,250), indicates that 253 ePhilIDs were issued through the use of mode 1 request scheduling. With 26,369 total issuances, the municipality of Odiongan was at the top of the list. Romblon came in second with 23,845 issuances, and the remaining municipalities had issuances of less than 20,000.

Based on the recent updates of PhlPost, a total of 51,314 PhilID cards were successfully issued in the province of Romblon. From this total, 49,868 were delivered by PhlPost while 1,446 PhlID cards were delivered by PhilSys field personnel. 

As for the Return-To Sender PhilID cards, PhilID cards unclaimed by holders and surrendered by PhlPost after 60-day retention in their office, PSO recorded 1,446 successful deliveries out of 1,465 turned-over. It was noted that 11 cardholders of the remaining 19 RTS were deceased and 8 were unlocated.

As approach in hitting the target registrants in 2024, the PSO deployed five (5) registration kits for the implementation of the Step-2 registration and printing of ePhilID which was an evident success. 

Then again, the PSO is optimistic in reaching the goal for 2023 and to serve more PhilSys registrants.

Signed into law by former President Rodrigo RoaDueterte in August 2018, Republic Act 110555 also known as the Philippine Identification System Act aims to establish a single valid proof of identity for all Filipinos and resident aliens.