Locsin warns to ‘kill’ those who ask for birth certificates for passport renewal

To this, Locsin replied, “Hindi. P******** (No. Motherf*cker). Not for passport renewal. If anyone asks you, tell me who and I will f*cking kill him/her. (File photo: Teddy Locsin Jr./Twitter)

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro “Teddy Boy” Locsin, Jr. on Tuesday, February 9, said he will “kill” anyone who asks for the birth certificate of applicants as a requirement for the renewal of their passport.

On Twitter, netizen @superjoza88 asked the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) chief, “Sir @teddyboylocsin kailangan pa rin po ba ng birth certificate pag nag pa-renew ng passport (is birth certificate needed for passport renewal)?”

To this, Locsin replied, “Hindi. P******** (No. Motherf*cker). Not for passport renewal. If anyone asks you, tell me who and I will f*cking kill him/her.

“I just want to make myself f*cking clear.

That f*cking birth certificate requirement is out because it was an idiotic requirement according to top retired DFA officials,” he added in another tweet.

In January, Locsin ordered to remove the requirement of presenting a birth certificate for those who are renewing their passports.

However, the said document is still needed in the following cases: first-time passport applications; renewal applications for lost and mutilated passports; renewal application requiring changes in passport entries; renewal applications of old brown and green passports bearing no complete middle name; and applicants included in the DFA’s watchlist.

Locsin made the decision after he bared that a former outsourced passport maker “took all the data” when his contract was terminated. This incident prompted the public to raise data privacy concerns.

The DFA, however, had assured passport holders that there was no passport data breach, saying that all information about them is “safe.”

“The Department remains in custody and control of passport data and that this has not been shared with or accessed by any unauthorized party,” it said.

“The Department is also hoping that it was able to assuage the concerns of the public on this issue that has also resulted in improvements in the passport application process,” it added.