FAQs
FAQs
1. What is CAV?
1. What is CAV?
- Certification, Verification and Authentication (CAV) is an official and formal processes and acts of checking, reviewing and certifying to the genuineness and veracity of the available academic school records of a learner by the Department of Foreign Affairs for duly authorized purposes only.
2. What are the valid purposes for request for certification?
2. What are the valid purposes for request for certification?
- Employment abroad
- Seaman's book/seafarer's registration certificate
- Migration to foreign land
- Student Visa
- Travel to overseas
- Fiancé(e) Visa
- Descendant's Visa
- Reimbursement of educational allowance/tuition fees of children of OFW
- Other purposes approved by DFA
4. What documents are covered in CAV?
4. What documents are covered in CAV?
- Academic School Records
- Certifying Officers
- Learners
- Public and Private learning institutions on Basic Education
5. What are Academic School Records?
5. What are Academic School Records?
- Elementary/Secondary Diploma
- Form 137
- Form 138
- Report of rating in A & E and PEPT Tests
6. Who issues CAV?
6. Who issues CAV?
- The issuance of CAV shall be the function and responsibility of the Records Section in DepEd Regional Offices.
7. Who are the CERTIFYING OFFICERS?
7. Who are the CERTIFYING OFFICERS?
- Records Custodian/Registrar
- School Heads
- Division Records Officers
- Division Administrative Officer (Administrative Section)
- Assistant Schools Division Superintendent
- Schools Division Superintendent
- Regional Records Officers
- Chief Administrative Officer of Administrative Division
- Assistant Regional Director
- Regional Director
8. Who are the authorized signing authorities for CAV?
8. Who are the authorized signing authorities for CAV?
Only any of the following in the proper order of authorization:
Only any of the following in the proper order of authorization:
- The Regional Director
- The Assistant Regional Director
- The Chief Administrative Officer (Administrative Division)
9. Who can avail the CAV?
9. Who can avail the CAV?
- A person who applies for or requests for his/her academic school records for certification, authentication and verification purposes only.
- In any event of his/her physical absence, the applicant may be substituted by a duly authorized representative.
10. Who may act as a representative?
10. Who may act as a representative?
- A person duly authorized in writing through a Special Power of Attorney (SPA)
- Parent
- Legal Guardian
- Brothers/Sisters of legal age (of the learner)