Philippine Honorary Consulate in San Diego
The Embassy and the Los Angeles consulate disagree about this office. The Embassy’s list names Atty. Audie John De Castro and says the office offers consular notarization, travel documents and consular mortuary certificates. The contact page of Los Angeles lists the honorary consul in San Diego as “Vacant”.
The Philippine honorary consulate in San Diego is listed at 701 B Street, Suite 1745. Phone before going, because the two official pages that name it do not agree on whether the post is filled.
How to book an appointment at the Philippine Honorary Consulate in San Diego
To see the honorary consul, arrange it by phone or email: the lists that name the office give no booking system.
Passport applications from this area are booked with the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles, on passport.gov.ph.
The Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles is at 3435 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 550, Los Angeles, CA 90010, phone (213) 639-0980.
San Diego County is in the district of the Consulate General in Los Angeles, which takes passport bookings for its district at passport.gov.ph.
How to cancel an appointment at the Philippine Honorary Consulate in San Diego
With no booking system at this office, a meeting with the honorary consul is arranged, and changed, by phone or email.
For a passport booking with Los Angeles, passport.gov.ph says: to reschedule, do not cancel; choose "Manage Existing Appointment". A cancelled appointment cannot be restored.
Getting to the Philippine Honorary Consulate in San Diego
The address on the official list is 701 B Street, Suite 1745, San Diego, CA 92101.
From San Diego to the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles it is 125 miles by road (2 h 32 min at posted speed limits, without traffic).
Real reviews of the Philippine Honorary Consulate in San Diego
Google's listing at 701 B Street has 3.1 stars from 24 reviews. Reviewers say appointments are made by email and phone, and one reports a notarial appointment moved at less than a day's notice in November 2025.
There is no website: call or email for an appointment, and the email is on the voice message. Parking is on 7th or 8th Street, the entrance on B or 7th.
Phillip C.
I emailed on a Tuesday for a notarial and was booked for the Thursday at 11 a.m., with instructions on what to bring.
M. M.
They moved my notarial appointment with less than 24 hours' notice and never called back to give me a new one.
Jezelle P.
Opening hours of the Philippine Honorary Consulate in San Diego
This office has no published hours on the official lists; agree a time first.
Los Angeles publishes its consular hours on a page that its menu titles "Consular Service Hours (Monday - Friday Only) and Holidays"; the hours themselves are not in the page text. Call (213) 639-0980 during office hours to confirm.
Phone number of the Philippine Honorary Consulate in San Diego
The number on the official list is (619) 241-2114, and the email is [email protected].
Google's listing shows the same number.
For anything this office does not handle, the Los Angeles consulate's number is (213) 639-0980.
What this office handles in San Diego
A list of honorary consulates that the Los Angeles consulate published, archived on 7 May 2024, gives the services of this office and of its counterpart in Las Vegas:
- acknowledgment of legal instruments for use in the Philippines;
- travel documents for Filipinos going home with an expired or lost passport;
- consular mortuary certificates for shipping remains to the Philippines;
- assistance to distressed Filipino nationals.
The same list keeps passports, dual citizenship, the notarization of affidavits and sworn statements, visas and civil registration at the Los Angeles consulate.
The Embassy's current list names consular notarization, travel documents and consular mortuary certificates, while the Los Angeles contact page lists the post as "Vacant": phone before going.
What you can settle without traveling
These go online, by mail or through other offices, without going to Los Angeles:
- An apostille: American public documents for use in the Philippines are apostilled by the US office that has authority over them, usually a Secretary of State. The Chicago and Los Angeles consulates say they stopped authenticating them in May 2019.
- The NBI clearance fingerprints: The NBI’s page for applicants abroad accepts the rolled fingerprints from a Philippine embassy, a consular office or the nearest police station, and the form then goes to the NBI by mail.
- A 9(a) visa for a foreign spouse or friend: The Embassy’s fee table has a section for e-Visa online applications, with a $25 convenience fee on top of the visa fee.
- PSA certificates: Birth, marriage and death certificates and the CENOMAR come from the Philippine Statistics Authority. PSAHelpline.ph takes orders from abroad and prepares them for a courier that you arrange.