Philippine Consulate in Silver Spring, MD
There is no Philippine consulate in Silver Spring. The office with jurisdiction is the Embassy of the Philippines. Consular Section in Washington, D.C., 7 miles away, about 18 min by road. This page covers what that means in practice: when the trip is unavoidable, and which procedures can be settled from Silver Spring without it.
Where Silver Spring is served from
The assignment is by state: the whole of Maryland belongs to the consulate in Washington, D.C., whose district 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. The detail, including how far each city in the state is from the consulate, is on the Maryland page.
Silver Spring is 7 miles from the consulate, 18 min by road, so the practical question is not how to get there but when a slot opens.
What you can settle from Silver Spring without travelling
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.
- Apostilles on American documents come from the issuing state’s competent authority. Since 15 May 2019 the consulate cannot authenticate them.
- 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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