Short answer. Yes, when filed with a court. Section 11 of Republic Act No. 9262 states that an application for a protection order filed with a court shall be considered an application for both a Temporary Protection Order and a Permanent Protection Order. You do not file two separate requests — a single court application covers both.
What the law says
An application for protection order filed with a court shall be considered an application for both a TPO and PPO.
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One filing, both orders
The law spares a victim from filing twice. Section 11 provides that an application for protection order filed with a court shall be considered an application for both a TPO and PPO — that is, both a Temporary Protection Order and a Permanent Protection Order. The temporary order is meant to give immediate, short-term protection while the case is pending, and the permanent order is the lasting relief a court can grant after it has heard the matter. Because your single application is read as asking for both, the court can move from urgent protection to durable protection without requiring you to start a fresh request each time.
The form your application must take
Section 11 sets out how the application is made. It must be in writing, signed and verified under oath by the applicant. It may be filed as an independent action, or as incidental relief in any civil or criminal case whose subject matter involves the violence the Act describes. The application form asks for the names and addresses of the parties, their relationship, a statement of the circumstances of the abuse, and the specific reliefs sought. You may also request the assistance of counsel and ask that filing fees be waived until the hearing, and you must attest that no other protection-order application is pending elsewhere.
Help is available to prepare it
You are not expected to navigate this alone. The section directs that barangay officials and court personnel shall assist applicants in the preparation of the application, and that law enforcement agents shall likewise help in cases brought to their attention. A standard application form, in English with translations into the major local languages, is meant to be available to make filing easier. Where revealing your address would put your life in danger, the law allows you to say so and to withhold it, giving instead a mailing address for service, so long as you attest that you live within the court's territorial jurisdiction.
What the rule does and does not guarantee
Being treated as an application for both orders is about procedure, not outcome. It ensures the court can grant a temporary order quickly and later a permanent one on the same application, but it does not by itself decide that either will issue — the court still evaluates the facts and, for a permanent order, holds a hearing where the respondent can be heard. It is also distinct from a barangay protection order, which is a separate and faster track handled at the barangay level. This provision governs applications made to a court, streamlining them so that one filing opens the door to the full range of court protection.