Does your CURP say “Person reported missing”? Here is how to remove the designation

A new notice on Mexico’s CURP document can affect people whose names remain in an active missing-person search file. The phrase “Person reported missing” appears only on the documents of people with a search record.

The Mexico City Commission for the Search for Persons said the file remains active until the people who opened it report that their relative has been found. If a located person does not provide that notice, the active record can interfere with official procedures in Mexico City and help prevent misuse of government documents.

To update the status, cancel the search file and restore access to procedures, applicants must go to the Comprehensive Assistance Center for the Search for Persons, known as CAIBP, at Avenida Niños Héroes No. 102 in the Doctores neighborhood of Cuauhtémoc. The center is open 24 hours a day, every day of the week, and officials provide guidance on the process.

On May 19, Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez announced that Mexico’s National Population Registry would identify the CURPs of missing people with the phrase “Person reported missing.” The measure aims to prevent unauthorized procedures by third parties and alert the National Search Commission to any activity involving the record after a disappearance was reported.

Undersecretary Arturo Medina Padilla said families had found that someone used their relatives’ information after the disappearance. The national registry lists 5,510 missing and unlocated people in Mexico City: 3,501 men, 1,911 women and 98 people of undetermined sex.

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That is a request from many families who discovered that, after the disappearance, someone had used their loved ones’ information.