The Philippines keeps nine full consular offices in the United States: the Embassy's consular section in Washington, D.C. and the consulates general in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, Honolulu and Agana, Guam. The Embassy's list of honorary consulates gives ten more in the United States, and this guide has a page for each of them. This guide helps you work out which one covers you, which is not always the nearest one.
Start with the thing that catches most people out: jurisdiction is assigned by state, and in two states by county. California and Nevada are split between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The ten southern Californian counties and the three southern Nevada counties go to Los Angeles, everything else to San Francisco. An appointment booked at the wrong consulate is a wasted appointment.
The second is newer, and half the internet has not caught up with it. The Consulate General in Seattle has reopened, and Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington now belong to it: not to San Francisco, as several official pages still say. Its consular services are in a soft opening, and its pages say passport services are temporarily unavailable. Louisiana and Oklahoma moved to Houston too, though Chicago is still listed for them in places.
The third is the one that saves the most wasted journeys: three of the most searched Philippine procedures in this country are not consular procedures at all. PSA certificates come from Manila and are ordered online, an apostille on an American document comes from your state's Secretary of State, the consulate has not authenticated them since 15 May 2019, and an NBI clearance is applied for by mail to the Philippines. What genuinely needs a consular officer is your passport biometrics, the oath of allegiance and a signature on a notarial document done at the consulate (a local notary plus an apostille also works, according to the notarial page of the Chicago consulate). The NBI clearance's fingerprints can be taken at a consulate or at a police station, according to the NBI.
If this is your first time, read the appointment guide: passports are booked nationally at passport.gov.ph, and everything else runs on a different system at every consulate. Appointments are free, at the consulate and at the outreach missions alike.
Every Philippine consulate in the United States
The Embassy's list gives ten Philippine honorary consulates in the United States, and each has a page in this guide, below. The lists give their contact details; passports and dual citizenship are booked with the consular office that covers each area.
Five more appear only on an older page of the Los Angeles consulate and are not on the current lists: Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Juneau, Saipan. Their pages say which office serves those areas today.
Other cities
There is no Philippine consulate in most American cities. These 193 have a page of their own: which consulate covers them, how far away it is, and what can be resolved without making the journey at all. Every state name leads to its own page.
District of Columbia
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