Philippine Consulate in Tucson, AZ
There is no Philippine consulate in Tucson, and the consulate that covers it, the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles, is not a casual trip: 490 miles away, about 8 h 48 min by road. That makes the order of this page deliberate: first what you can do from Tucson without travelling, then what genuinely requires the counter.
Philippine consulate for Tucson: which consulate covers it
The assignment is by state: the whole of Arizona belongs to the consulate in Los Angeles, whose district covers Arizona, Southern Nevada (Nye, Clark and Lincoln counties) and Southern California (Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Orange, San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara and Kern counties). The detail, including how far each city in the state is from the consulate, is on the Arizona page.
490 miles is 8 h 48 min of driving each way from Tucson, which is why the outreach missions are worth watching here.
Arizona also has a Philippine Honorary Consulate in Chandler (Phoenix), under the consulate in Los Angeles. Its page gives the contact details from the official lists; passports and dual citizenship are booked with Los Angeles.
Watch for consular outreach missions before committing to the full journey. Consulates travel to underserved cities with passport biometrics and dual citizenship ceremonies; the appointments cost nothing, and for somewhere this far from the consulate a mission is usually the practical route. How they are booked is in the appointment guide.
What you can settle from Tucson 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 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 fingerprint card can be done at a consulate or, the NBI says, at the nearest police station.
The counter is unavoidable for passport biometrics and the RA 9225 oath. A notarial document can also be done by a local notary with an apostille, according to the notarial page of the Chicago consulate. Everything else deserves a second look before you drive.
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