The Philippines keeps twenty consular offices in the United States: nine career posts — 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 — plus eleven honorary consulates. 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 post 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. 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.
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 post. Appointments are free — at the consulate and at the outreach missions alike.
Every Philippine consulate in the United States
Eleven American cities have a Philippine honorary consulate. They are the closest official Philippine contact in their area — and worth knowing about, because most of them are in cities with no career post at all. But be clear about what they are: an honorary consulate cannot issue a passport, administer the dual citizenship oath or notarise a document. For those, you need the career post that supervises it.
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