Every service at this post requires an appointment
Passports are booked nationally at passport.gov.ph. Everything else — dual citizenship, notarials, civil registry — is booked through this post’s own system, and no two posts use the same one. There is no walk-in queue.
All applicants must appear in person for a passport, whatever their age, because the biometrics are taken on site. Passports are printed in Manila and mailed back in six to eight weeks: there is no express service abroad.
The Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles is the most searched
Philippine office in the United States, and by a wide margin — roughly 6,600 searches
a month look for it by name. It sits on Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown and serves
Arizona, Southern Nevada and the ten counties of Southern California, which between
them hold the largest Filipino community anywhere outside the Philippines.
Its jurisdiction is drawn by county, not by state. That is the single most
important thing to check before booking anything here: half of California and most of
Nevada belong to San Francisco instead.
Address, hours and contact details in Los Angeles
Appointment slots open every Monday at 5:00 PM. Not on a rolling basis, not
when someone cancels — Monday evening, through the post’s booking system. That one
fact explains most of the frustration people report with this office.
Los Angeles also supervises three honorary consulates, which is more than any
other post: San Diego,
Las Vegas and
Chandler, near Phoenix. They do
not issue passports, but they are the right first call for community matters and for
knowing when an outreach mission is coming.
And it runs the busiest outreach programme in the country. The Las Vegas mission
alone brings passport and dual citizenship services to a metro area with a very large
Filipino population and no career post of its own.
What this post can do for you
A Philippine career post handles the full consular catalogue. These are the procedures people come for, most searched first:
- Philippine passport renewal in the United States: Ten years for adults, five for minors, printed in Manila and mailed back in six to eight weeks. Why you must appear in person and why nine months’ notice is the real deadline.
- Philippine dual citizenship under RA 9225: For natural-born Filipinos who lost citizenship by naturalising abroad. The oath does not require renouncing your other nationality, and minor children come in as derivatives.
- Special Power of Attorney and consular notarisation: Twenty-five dollars a document, personal appearance required, and the consulate will neither draft your document nor act as your witness.
- Report of Birth and Report of Marriage: How to register a child born in the United States or a marriage celebrated here so that they exist in the Philippine civil registry. Mail-only at most posts.
- Affidavit of One and the Same Person: The document that fixes a name that does not match between your PSA birth certificate and your US passport. It is what stops most dual citizenship and passport applications.
- Philippine visa and visa-free entry for US travellers: US passport holders enter visa-free for 30 days, balikbayans for a year, and 9(A) visas are now filed online at evisa.gov.ph — not at the consulate counter.
Honorary consulates under this post
They cannot issue passports or take the dual citizenship oath, but they are the closest official Philippine contact in their area and the first place to hear about an outreach mission:
- Philippine Honorary Consulate in Las Vegas — 4045 Spencer Street, Las Vegas, NV 89119
- Philippine Honorary Consulate in San Diego — 701 B Street, Suite 1745, San Diego, CA 92101
- Philippine Honorary Consulate in Chandler (Phoenix) — 1940 W. Chandler Blvd, Suite D2, Chandler, AZ 85224
What you can settle without going to Los Angeles
More than people expect, and this is where most wasted trips come from. Three of the most searched Philippine procedures in the United States do not happen at a consulate at all:
- PSA certificates — birth, marriage, death and CENOMAR — are issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority and ordered online. The consulate asks for them; it does not print them.
- Apostilles on American documents come from the Secretary of State of the state that issued them. Since 15 May 2019 the consulate cannot authenticate them.
- NBI clearance is issued by the NBI in the Philippines and applied for by mail. The only consular step is notarising your fingerprint card.
What genuinely requires you at a counter is anything with a signature or a fingerprint on it: the biometrics for a passport, the oath of allegiance, and signing a power of attorney in front of a consular officer.
Fees, accepted payment methods and document checklists are on the requirements page, and every procedure has its own guide in the procedures section.
philippineconsulates.us is an independent information guide to the Philippine consulates in the United States. We are not the Philippine Consulate General, the Philippine Embassy or any government agency. We do not book, sell or manage appointments: every post runs its own system. We check the details regularly, but they can change without notice — always confirm with the post before you travel.