Philippine Consulate in Sacramento, CA
Sacramento does not have its own Philippine consulate. It is served by the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco, 86 miles away, about 1 h 46 min by road, and every appointment, passport and notarial act for Sacramento residents happens there.
Where Sacramento is served from
The reason is drawn on a county map, not a state one: California is split by county between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Sacramento sits in Sacramento County, which belongs to San Francisco. A neighbour a county away may be served by the consulate in Los Angeles instead, the full split is on the California page.
From Sacramento it is 86 miles, 1 h 46 min, so a same-day return is realistic. It stops being realistic the moment a document is missing, which is the usual reason people make the trip twice.
Before you plan the trip from Sacramento
Check this list first, it covers most of the reasons people book an appointment they did not need:
- PSA certificates, birth, marriage, death and CENOMAR are issued in Manila and ordered online, delivered to any US address.
- Apostilles: if anyone tells you to get a document "red ribboned" at the consulate, that advice predates 2019 and no longer works.
- For an NBI clearance the whole file travels by mail, and the NBI accepts fingerprints taken by a consulate or by a police station.
What does require appearing in person is your biometrics for a passport and the oath of allegiance. A special power of attorney can be signed before a consular officer or before a local notary and then apostilled, according to the notarial page of the Chicago consulate.
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