Philippine Consulate in Pearl City, HI
Pearl City does not have its own Philippine consulate. It is served by the Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu, 13 miles away, about 24 min by road, and every appointment, passport and notarial act for Pearl City residents happens there.
Which Philippine consulate serves Pearl City
Every Philippine procedure for a Hawaii resident goes through Honolulu: its district is Hawaii and American Samoa. Distances from the other cities in the state are on the Hawaii page.
13 miles from the consulate, Pearl City is close enough that a forgotten photocopy is an annoyance rather than a disaster.
Before you plan the trip from Pearl City
Check this list first, it covers most of the reasons people book an appointment they did not need:
- PSA certificates: the Philippine Statistics Authority prints them, not the consulate. You order them on the web and they arrive by courier.
- Apostilles: if anyone tells you to get a document "red ribboned" at the consulate, that advice predates 2019 and no longer works.
- NBI clearance is applied for by mail to the Philippines; the NBI takes the fingerprints from a consulate or from a police station.
What does require appearing in person is your biometrics for a passport and the oath of allegiance. A special power of attorney can be signed before a consular officer or before a local notary and then apostilled, according to the notarial page of the Chicago consulate.
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