Encarna books an appointment to prove she is not dead

RECORD OF IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE — file 2026/44,918

Appearing: Encarna Belasko, 71, retired, thirty-one years as a cashier in the glassworks company store. Attending officer: Rufino Adalid, clerk, window 4. Subject: the applicant requests the annulment of her death, registered on the 9th through a clerical error.

Let the record show:

1. The applicant submits a valid identity document and also submits herself. 2. The correction must be filed through the electronic register, which requires a digital certificate. The applicant's was revoked on the 9th on grounds of death. 3. She is directed to the in-person channel, which requires an appointment. The appointment system queries the same database and replies: "The applicant is not recorded as a living person." 4. The entry history is consulted: it arrived at 09:14 on the 9th from the file of a care home in which the applicant has never been resident. It cannot be amended from this window. 5. She is offered the option of a third party acting on her behalf, on production of a certificate of last wills. 6. The applicant asks whether she may request that certificate herself. She is told that she may, through the electronic register.

The undersigned clerk asks the applicant whether she wishes to be issued proof of attendance. The applicant replies: "Give it to me in writing, maybe on paper they'll believe me sooner."