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Table 1. Timeline for Residential Free Patent Issuance, Sporadic

STAGE NUMBER OF PROCESSING NOTES
DAYS
Sporadic Adjudication 70 10 days for investigation
60 days for compliance with
requirements
Subdivision Survey 60 Includes applying for survey
authority, securing the survey
data, actual survey, approval.
Assumes that the clients is able
to pay for the survey right away.
CENRO Processing 120 Single application processing
can be fast (compared to batch
processing for Systematic
Adjudication) and can be finished
in 40 days if application
requirements are complete
PENRO Processing 5

ROD Registration and Title 60 Can take up to 2 months
Issuance

Table 2. Timeline for Residential Free Patent Issuance, Systematic
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STAGE NUMBER OF PROCESSING NOTES
DAYS
Systematic Adjudication 320 130 days for preparation of lot
information
60 days for RLTA
10 days for Barangay Assembly
60 days for actual adjudication
60 days for compliance with
requirements
Subdivision Survey 60 Can be longer as there are more
lots to be surveyed
CENRO Processing 120 Batch processing

PENRO Processing 5 Mostly re-validation and
ministerial

ROD Registration and Title 60 Can be longer
Issuance

15 Systematic Adjudication, Surveying, and CENRO Processing can take longer with Systematic Adjudication because it involves a
number of applications in a batch.

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