Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac, Mayor Alice Guo’s birth certificate was declared void on September 24 in a ruling of the Tarlac Regional Trial Court (RTC), the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) chief Claire Dennis Mapa revealed.
‘Recently, the certificate of live birth of Alice Guo was declared void by the RTC 3rd Judicial Region Branch 111 Tarlac City last September 24, 2025. This is good news for the Philippine government, the Philippine Statistics Authority,’ Mapa said during a hearing of the Senate committee on Finance on Friday.
A petition to cancel Guo’s registration was filed by the Office of the Solicitor General and the PSA on July 4, 2024 on the ground that the ex-mayor was ineligible for late registration.
In 2024, Guo was linked to a Philippine offshore gaming operation (Pogo) in Tarlac, alongside many others.
Her nationality and identity were also questioned, and documents from the National Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Immigration (BI), and the Department of Foreign Affairs asserted that Guo was a Chinese national. The PSA welcomed the Tarlac court’s decision, stating that it set a good precedent for other attempts of identity fraud in the country. ‘The court’s ruling sends a strong message that falsifying or misrepresenting information in civil registry documents carries serious consequences. Such actions are an attack on our individual and collective identity, as they undermine the country’s civil registry system,’ Mapa said.
BI echoed this position, and recommitted to imposing strict measures against those faking identities.
‘The RTC ruling is not just about one individual-it sends a resounding message to all foreign nationals who attempt to illegally acquire Philippine documents. We will not allow the sanctity of our nation’s civil registry and identity system to be compromised,’ BI Commissioner Joel Viado said in a statement on Sunday. Guo and her family are facing falsification and anti-dummy charges, and Guo in particular is facing money laundering charges, a qualified trafficking case, a graft case, and a material misrepresentation case before three different courts.