Philippine Consulate in El Paso, TX
There is no Philippine consulate in El Paso, and the consulate that covers it, the Philippine Consulate General in Houston, is not a casual trip: 736 miles away, about 12 h 9 min by road. That makes the order of this page deliberate: first what you can do from El Paso without travelling, then what genuinely requires the counter.
Where El Paso is served from
The assignment is by state: the whole of Texas belongs to the consulate in Houston, whose district covers Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The detail, including how far each city in the state is from the consulate, is on the Texas page.
736 miles is 12 h 9 min of driving each way from El Paso, which is why the outreach missions are worth watching here.
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
The most common wasted journey in this system is for a document the consulate cannot produce. There are three of them:
- Your PSA birth certificate or CENOMAR has to come from Manila. No consular office in this country can print one, and every other procedure asks for it.
- Apostilles on American documents come from the issuing state’s competent authority. Since 15 May 2019 the consulate cannot authenticate them.
- 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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