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DESPITE
TWO BIRTH CERTIFICATES, FAMILY GETS VISAS
Teresita Payawal (second from right) was put under
investigation by the American Embassy for "alien smuggling,"
after the Embassy found two birth certificates for her daughter,
containing different names, and registered years apart. Teresita's
sister, Edith Fuentes (extreme left), brought the case to Atty.
Gurfinkel, who proved to the U.S. Embassy that there was nothing
fraudulent about the second birth certificate, and that this family
was simply following a Filipino custom of changing a child's name
to "cure" an early childhood illness.
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