Philippine Consulate in Trenton, NJ
There is no Philippine consulate in Trenton. The office with jurisdiction is the Philippine Consulate General in New York, 63 miles away, about 1 h 34 min by road. This page covers what that means in practice: when the trip is unavoidable, and which procedures can be settled from Trenton without it.
Philippine consulate for Trenton: which consulate covers it
The assignment is by state: the whole of New Jersey 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 New Jersey page.
63 miles and 1 h 34 min each way makes this a morning out of Trenton rather than a day off, provided the appointment is early and the paperwork is complete before you leave.
Three procedures that skip the consulate entirely
Three of the most searched Philippine procedures in the United States are not consular procedures at all:
- 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.
- An apostille is issued by the Secretary of State of whichever state produced the document. The consulate stopped authenticating on 15 May 2019.
- NBI clearance is applied for by mail to the Philippines; only the fingerprint card needs a consular officer.
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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