Philippine Consulate in the District of Columbia
The District of Columbia is home to the Consular Section of the Philippine Embassy, the only Philippine office in the country that is part of an embassy rather than a consulate general. It serves the District itself and ten states across the South East, plus most of the Caribbean.
Philippine offices in the District of Columbia
- Embassy of the Philippines — Consular Section in Washington, D.C. — Chancery Annex, 1617 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036 · (202) 467-9300 · consular@phembassy-us.org
Which Philippine consulate covers the District of Columbia
All of the District of Columbia is served by the Embassy of the Philippines — Consular Section in Washington, D.C.. Its consular jurisdiction covers Alabama, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, plus Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and most of the Caribbean.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Post | Embassy of the Philippines — Consular Section in Washington, D.C. |
| Address | Chancery Annex, 1617 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036 |
| Phone | (202) 467-9300 |
| consular@phembassy-us.org | |
| Hours | Embassy: Mon–Fri 9:00 AM–5:00 PM · Consular frontline (appointment required): passports Mon–Fri 9:00 AM–3:00 PM, dual citizenship Tue–Fri 9:00 AM–12:00 PM, notarials Mon–Fri 1:00 PM–3:00 PM |
What you do not need a consulate for
The most frequent wasted journey in this system is for a document the consulate cannot produce. There are three of them:
- PSA certificates — birth, marriage, death, CENOMAR — come from the Philippine Statistics Authority and are ordered online.
- Apostilles on documents issued in the District of Columbia come from the District’s own competent authority. Since 15 May 2019 the consulate cannot authenticate them.
- NBI clearance is issued in the Philippines and applied for by mail; only the fingerprint card needs a consular officer.
Everything else, though, is worth the journey precisely because it cannot be done any other way — passport biometrics, the oath, and a signature on a special power of attorney witnessed in person.
The Embassy and its consular section are in two different buildings on the same avenue. Consular services are at the Chancery Annex, 1617 Massachusetts Avenue NW — not at the chancery at 1600.
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