This document outlines the process and requirements for applying for a free patent, which grants ownership of alienable and disposable land. The application requires documentation showing identity and claims to the land, certification that no other cases involve the land, an approved survey plan, and certification that the land is eligible. The application is submitted to the CENR office and assigned to staff who check requirements, post notices, investigate the land, and screen the application. If approved, it is forwarded to PENRO for final review and issuance of the patent granting ownership. The process takes approximately 3 months from initial application to issuance of the patent.
This document outlines the process and requirements for applying for a free patent, which grants ownership of alienable and disposable land. The application requires documentation showing identity and claims to the land, certification that no other cases involve the land, an approved survey plan, and certification that the land is eligible. The application is submitted to the CENR office and assigned to staff who check requirements, post notices, investigate the land, and screen the application. If approved, it is forwarded to PENRO for final review and issuance of the patent granting ownership. The process takes approximately 3 months from initial application to issuance of the patent.
This document outlines the process and requirements for applying for a free patent, which grants ownership of alienable and disposable land. The application requires documentation showing identity and claims to the land, certification that no other cases involve the land, an approved survey plan, and certification that the land is eligible. The application is submitted to the CENR office and assigned to staff who check requirements, post notices, investigate the land, and screen the application. If approved, it is forwarded to PENRO for final review and issuance of the patent granting ownership. The process takes approximately 3 months from initial application to issuance of the patent.
This document outlines the process and requirements for applying for a free patent, which grants ownership of alienable and disposable land. The application requires documentation showing identity and claims to the land, certification that no other cases involve the land, an approved survey plan, and certification that the land is eligible. The application is submitted to the CENR office and assigned to staff who check requirements, post notices, investigate the land, and screen the application. If approved, it is forwarded to PENRO for final review and issuance of the patent granting ownership. The process takes approximately 3 months from initial application to issuance of the patent.
Free Patent Application is a mode of acquiring ownership of a certain parcel of alienable and disposable land. Office or Division: DENR CENR Offices to PENR Offices Classification: Highly Technical (Multi-Stage Processing) Type of Transaction G2C - Government to Citizen Who may avail: All natural born and naturalized Filipino CHECKLIST OF REQUIREMENTS WHERE TO SECURE 1. Duly accomplished Free Patent Application and prescribed forms (1 original) Concerned CENR Office 2. Any document showing identity of land and claims of ownership Land Owner/LGU • Tax declaration (1 certified copy) Assessor's Office • Deed of Sale (1 photocopy, present original copy) Land Owner, Notary Public, or LGU • Extra Judicial Settlement (1 photocopy) Land Owner, Notary Public, or LGU • Waiver of Rights (1 photocopy) Land Owner, Notary Public, or LGU 3. Certification from the Municipal Circuit/Regional Trial Court (MCTC/RTC) Land Owner, or Municipal Circuit/Regional concerned that there is no pending land registration case involving the parcel Trial Court (MCTC/RTC) having Jurisdiction being applied for (1 original, 1 photocopy) 4. Approved Survey Plan with Technical Description/Form V37 (if covered with Concerned CENR Office isolated survey) (1 certified copy) 5. Certification of status of land from LRA, if the municipality is under cadastral Land Registration Authority (LRA) Central proceedings or if there is an old survey (Private and Original Survey) (1 Office, Quezon City photocopy) 6. Certification that the land applied for is alienable and disposable (1 original, 1 Concerned CENR Office photocopy) 7. Documentary Stamp (4 pieces) BIR, Post Office, DENR PROCESSING CLIENT STEPS AGENCY ACTION FEES TO BE PAID PERSONS RESPONSIBLE TIME CENRO 1. Submit 1. Check completeness of LMO I accomplished application. If found in order, None 3 hours RPS Application Form to register, allocate, index and the CENR Office assign application number. Staff with complete Scan, encode and upload CENRO Records Unit supporting records in LAMS. requirements 1.1. Prepare Order of Payment Staff and forward the same to None 30 min. CENRO Records Unit client 2. Receive Order of 2. Accept payment, issue Php 50.00 Bill collector Payment and pay Official Receipt (OR) to the 30 min. Application Fee Cashier corresponding fees applicant 3. Receive (OR) and 3. Accept OR, indicate OR forward the same to number, amount paid, and Staff Records date in the application form None 1 hour CENRO Records Unit Unit/Section and forward the application to Chief, RPS 3.1. Review application. Assign Land Management Inspector Chief None 3 hours (LMI)/Deputized Public RPS Land Inspector (DPLI) for inspection/investigation 3.2. Prepare posting of notices at the barangay, LMI/DPLI municipal, or provincial None 2 days CENR Officer hall where the property is situated. 3.3. Travel to the barangay, None 2 days LMI/DPLI municipality or province. 3.4. Posting of Notices in the 30 days Barangay Hall. None posting of LMI/DPLI Notices Simultaneously conduct (including investigation on the land investigation) being applied for. 3.5. Get the signed proof of posting from the Barangay fifteen (15) days after posting, and None 5 days DPLI/LMI prepare, sign and submit investigation report, and forward to LMO I 3.6. Screen the carpeta and prepare V37/certified lot LMO I/Cartographer/ data computation, Order Encoder None 10 days of Award, and Judicial whoever is available Form, and forward to RPS Geodetic Engineer (GE). 3.7. Verify and certify the correctness of the GE Technical Description None 5 days RPS and forward to Chief, RPS 3.8. Do final screening of carpeta and forward to Chief None 5 days CENRO for RPS recommendation. 3.9. Review and initial file copy of Patent and Sign None 3 days CENR Officer Indorsement to PENRO for approval. 3.10. Transmit carpeta to 3 days or less Records Officer PENRO None depending on CENRO Records Unit the location of the PENR Office PENRO 3.11. Receive the carpeta and forward to Chief, RPS. Records Officer None 4 hours Update data in LAMS, if PENRO Records Section applicable. 3.12. Receive and review the carpeta, and forward to Chief None 1 day Chief, Technical Services RPS Division (TSD). 3.13. Do the final review of carpeta, initial file copy of Free Patent, and forward 1 day & 4 Chief None to PENRO for approval of hours TSD application and issuance of Patent. 3.14. Sign Order of Approval and Free Patent. Forward None 2 days PENR Officer to PENRO Records for numbering. 3.15. Assign Patent Number/ Indexing, prepare Records Officer/Staff transmittal letter and None PENRO Records Section forward to PENRO for signature. 2 days 3.16. Sign transmittal letter and forward to PENRO PENR Officer records for transmittal to Registry of Deeds (ROD). 3.17. Scan the order of Liaison Officer None 5 days Approval, signed Free PENRO Records Section Patent and transmittal letter.
Upload to Land Administration and Management System (LAMS).
Transmit documents to ROD, and copy furnish the client. 66 days (+ up to 32 additional processing days due extreme case were corrections or revisions on the details of the patentee needs CENRO SUB-TOTAL Php 50.00 to be done or when the signatories are suddenly replaced which will result into further review) PENRO SUB-TOTAL None 12 days TOTAL: Php 50.00 110 days maximum
This service is under the following laws:
• Commonwealth Act No. 141 or the “Public Land Act” (1936) • Republic Act No. 782 or the “An Act to Grant Free Patents to Occupants of Public Agricultural Land since or prior to July Fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five” (1952) • Republic Act No. 11231 or the “Agricultural Free Patent Reform Act” (2018) *processing time is aligned with the realities in the field as considered in the 125 processing days for Residential Free patent
