Philippine Consulate in Worcester, MA
There is no Philippine consulate in Worcester. The office with jurisdiction is the Philippine Consulate General in New York, 172 miles away, about 3 h 47 min by road. This page covers what that means in practice: when the trip is unavoidable, and which procedures can be settled from Worcester without it.
Where Worcester is served from
The assignment is by state: the whole of Massachusetts belongs to the consulate in New York, whose district covers Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. The detail, including how far each city in the state is from the consulate, is on the Massachusetts page.
3 h 47 min each way, 172 miles: from Worcester this is an appointment you build a day around. It rewards preparation more than punctuality.
Three procedures that skip the consulate entirely
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.
- An apostille is issued by the Secretary of State of whichever state produced the document. The consulate stopped authenticating on 15 May 2019.
- 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.
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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