APPLICATION FOR FREE PATENT (RESIDENTIAL).
Free Patent Application is a mode of acquiring ownership of a certain parcel of alienable and disposable land.
Office or Division:
DENR Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) to Provincial Environment and Natural Resources (PENRO)
Classification:
Highly Technical (Multi-Stage Processing)
Type of Transaction:
Application for Free Patent (Residential)
Schedule of Availability of Service:
Monday to Friday
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. without noon break
Fees/Charges
Application Fee: P50.00
Documentary Stamp: P15.00 per document
Cadastral Cost (depending on the size of the area and number of corners, etc.)
Who May Avail the Service:
All natural born and naturalized Filipino
How to Avail the Service
No. (A) | Customer Activity (B) | DENR Action (C) | Office/Person Responsible/Location (D) | Duration (E) | Documentary Requirements (F) | Amount of Fees (G) |
| 1 | Inquire status of the lot being applied for free patent | Verify status of land whether titled or not and/or claimed by others | Administrative Aide VI/OIC, Records Unit | 30 minutes (manual)
| 1. Letter Request 2. Any document showing identity of land (e.g. lot number, survey card, tax declaration, Deed of Sale, etc.) 3. Certified True Copy of Approved Survey Plan , Technical Description or Cadastral Map 4. Tax declaration, Proof of payment of taxes 5. Certfication from the Barangay that he/she is a resident in the area. | |
| Determine Land Classification Status (whether A and D, or not) | Engineer II, UWI | 2 hours and 30 minutes | ||||
| Sign and approve Certification of Status of Land | CENRO/PENRO* | 30 minutes | ||||
Provide to the applicant/s the following: 1. Checklist of Requirements 2. Free Patent Application Form and other prescribed forms 3. Advice on the procedures | LMO/LMI | 30 minutes | ||||
2
| File application with complete supporting documents
| Receive application, record, index and assign control number
| Administrative Aide VI/OIC, Records Unit
| 1 hour
| Duly accomplished Free Patent Application and prescribed forms, with the following attached documents: 1. Proof of Claims/Ownership of the Land 2. Certified True Copy of Approved Survey Plan or Cadastral Map 3.Copy of technical description 4. Affidavit of two (2) disinterested persons residing in the barangay of the city or municipality where the land is located attesting that the applicant thereof has either by himself or through his predecessors-in interest, actually resided on and continuously possessed and occupied under a bonafide claim of acquisition of ownership, the subject land for at least ten (10) years 5.Certification from the Regional Trial Court concerned that there is no pending land registration case involving the parcel being applied for 6. Certification from LGU that the area applied for is zoned as Residential 7. Certification from CENRO that the land is A and D 8. Affidavit stating that the land is the only land applied for by the applicant. 9. Government issued ID of applicant and representative (Postal, Voter’s, GSIS, LTO, PhilHealth, Senior Citizen’s, SSS, etc.) 10. Latest photograph of land and house (preferably geo-tagged) 11. Latest photograph of the applicant and representative | |
| Compute Fees and prepare Order of Payment | LMO/LMI | 15 minutes | ||||
| 3 | Pay corresponding fee and documentary stamp | Receive payment and issue Official Receipt | Credit Officer | 10 minutes | • Application Fee (P50.00) • Documentary Stamp (P15.00 per document) •Cadastral Cost (depending on the size of the area and number of corners, etc.) | |
| Conduct investigation on the land being applied for and submit investigation report with geo-tagged photos | LMO/LMI | 3 days | ||||
| Prepare Notices and letter to the barangay, municipality or city, applicant | LMO/LMI | 1 day | ||||
| Sign notices and letters | CENRO/PENRO* | 5 minutes | ||||
| Post Notices | LMO/LMI | 15 Days (as required by Commonwealth Act 141: Public Land Act) | ||||
| 4 | Submit Proof of Posting from the Barangay, Applicant, CENRO | Prepare and process patent: • Prepare B.L. Form 700-2A | LMO/LMI | 30 minutes | ||
| • Prepare Order of Approval and Issuance of Patent | LMO/LMI | 30 minutes | ||||
| • Type Judicial Forms and Technical Descriptions and Prepare Indorsement to PENRO | UWI, Tree Marker | 1 hour and 30 minutes | ||||
| • Verify and certify the correctness of the Technical Description | Engineer, UWI | 30 minutes | ||||
| • Review FPA (Preliminary) | LMO | 30 minutes | ||||
| • Review and Initial Patent and Sign Indorsement to PENRO | CENR Officer | 30 minutes | ||||
| • Transmit carpeta to PENRO | Administrative Aide VI/OIC, Records Unit | 2 Days (depends on the location of PENRO) | ||||
| PENRO LEVEL • Receive the Free Patent documents | Administrative Aide, PENRO | 5 minutes | ||||
| • Review Free Patents documents (Final) | Chief, Patent and Deeds | 1 hour | ||||
| • Review Free Patents documents (Final) | Chief, Technical Services | 30 minutes | ||||
| • Sign Order of Approval, Free Patent | PENRO | 5 minutes | ||||
| • Assign Patent Number / Indexing | Records Officer | 30 minutes | ||||
| • Prepare Transmittal Letter | PENRO Staff | 20 minutes | ||||
| • Sign Transmittal Letter | PENRO | 10 minutes | ||||
| • Transmit documents to Register of Deeds | Records Officer | 2 hours (depends on location of ROD) | ||||
| 5 | Secure copy of Title at the Registry of Deeds concerned |
This service is under the following laws:
- Republic Act No. 10023 or “An Act Authorizing the Issuance of Free Patents to Residential Lands” (2009)
Notes:
- Transfer fee shall be paid when the lot is transferred during the processing of the application. The fee shall be paid based on where the application is being processed during the transfer i.e. CENR or PENR Office.
- One (1) application per applicant for Residential Free Patent.
- The maximum area for the application of Residential Free Patent is:
- 200 sq. m. for highly urbanized cities
- 500 sq. m. for other cities
- 750 sq. m. for first to second class municipalities
- 1,000 sq. m. for third and below/all others.
- Per RA No. 10023, the CENR Office is allowed a maximum of 120 calendar days to process the application of RFPA, while the PENR Officer is allowed a maximum of five (5) working days to do the same.
