Philippine Consulate in Cedar Rapids, IA
The Philippine consulate for Cedar Rapids is the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago. It is 247 miles away, about 4 h 42 min by road, and it is the only office that can process applications from Cedar Rapids: an appointment booked anywhere else is a wasted appointment.
Where Cedar Rapids is served from
The assignment is by state: the whole of Iowa belongs to the consulate in Chicago, whose district covers Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The detail, including how far each city in the state is from the consulate, is on the Iowa page.
4 h 42 min each way, 247 miles: from Cedar Rapids this is an appointment you build a day around. It rewards preparation more than punctuality.
Three procedures that skip the consulate entirely
Three of the most searched Philippine procedures in the United States are not consular procedures at all:
- PSA documents, the security-paper certificates everything else depends on, are ordered online and shipped internationally.
- Apostilles on American documents come from the issuing state’s competent authority. Since 15 May 2019 the consulate cannot authenticate them.
- The NBI clearance is issued in the Philippines. The consulate’s only part is notarising your fingerprint card.
What does require appearing in person is anything biometric or signed: a passport, the oath of allegiance and a special power of attorney signed before a consular officer.
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