Philippine Consulate in Aurora, CO
There is no Philippine consulate in Aurora, and the consulate that covers it, the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco, is not a casual trip: 1,257 miles away, about 21 h 41 min by road. That makes the order of this page deliberate: first what you can do from Aurora without travelling, then what genuinely requires the counter.
Which Philippine consulate serves Aurora
Every Philippine procedure for a Colorado resident goes through San Francisco: its district is Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Northern California (46 counties, from Alameda to Yuba) and Northern Nevada (Carson City and 13 counties). Distances from the other cities in the state are on the Colorado page.
1,257 miles is 21 h 41 min of driving each way from Aurora, which is why the outreach missions are worth watching here.
Colorado also has a Philippine Honorary Consulate in Denver, under the consulate in San Francisco. Its page gives the contact details from the official lists; passports and dual citizenship are booked with San Francisco.
Watch for consular outreach missions before committing to the full journey. Consulates travel to underserved cities with passport biometrics and dual citizenship ceremonies; the appointments cost nothing, and for somewhere this far from the consulate a mission is usually the practical route. How they are booked is in the appointment guide.
Three procedures that skip the consulate entirely
Three of the most searched Philippine procedures in the United States are not consular procedures at all:
- 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.
- NBI clearance is applied for by mail to the Philippines; the NBI takes the fingerprints from a consulate or from 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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