Philippine Consulate in Richmond, VA
There is no Philippine consulate in Richmond. The office with jurisdiction is the Embassy of the Philippines. Consular Section in Washington, D.C., 109 miles away, about 2 h 10 min by road. This page covers what that means in practice: when the trip is unavoidable, and which procedures can be settled from Richmond without it.
Which Philippine consulate serves Richmond
Jurisdiction runs by state, and Virginia, all of it, is assigned to Washington, D.C.. The same consulate 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. See the Virginia page for the rest of the state's cities and distances.
109 miles and 2 h 10 min each way makes this a morning out of Richmond rather than a day off, provided the appointment is early and the paperwork is complete before you leave.
What never requires the journey
The most common wasted journey in this system is for a document the consulate cannot produce. There are three of them:
- PSA certificates: the Philippine Statistics Authority prints them, not the consulate. You order them on the web and they arrive by courier.
- Apostilles on American documents come from the issuing state’s competent authority. Since 15 May 2019 the consulate cannot authenticate them.
- NBI clearance: posted to Manila, returned by post. Do not send the application to a consulate, it will not be processed there.
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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