Philippine Consulate in Dover, DE
Filipinos in Dover are covered by the Philippine Consulate General in New York, 168 miles away, about 3 h 32 min by road. There is no consular office in Dover itself, but there is more that can be done from home than most people expect, and it is worth checking before booking anything.
Which Philippine consulate serves Dover
The assignment is by state: the whole of Delaware belongs to the consulate in New York, whose district covers Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. The detail, including how far each city in the state is from the consulate, is on the Delaware page.
The distance from Dover, 168 miles, 3 h 32 min, puts this in the category of trips you make once and want to make count. Most people who end up repeating it were missing a PSA document.
What you can settle from Dover without travelling
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: if anyone tells you to get a document "red ribboned" at the consulate, that advice predates 2019 and no longer works.
- The NBI clearance is issued in the Philippines. The consulate’s only part is notarising your fingerprint card.
The counter is unavoidable for exactly three things: passport biometrics, the RA 9225 oath and signing a notarial document in front of an officer. Everything else deserves a second look before you drive.
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