Philippine Consulate in Florida
Florida is served by the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C., and has a Philippine honorary consulate in Miami, on Brickell Avenue. It is one of the states where the distance to the responsible post is large enough that outreach missions do most of the real work.
Philippine offices in Florida
- Philippine Honorary Consulate in Miami — 1200 Brickell Avenue, Suite 310, Miami, FL 33131 · (786) 777-0300 ext. 7103
Note what that means. An honorary consulate cannot issue a passport, administer the dual citizenship oath or notarise a document. For those you need the career post below.
The consulate with jurisdiction over Florida
All of Florida is served by the Embassy of the Philippines — Consular Section in Washington, D.C.. Its consular jurisdiction 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.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Post | Embassy of the Philippines — Consular Section in Washington, D.C. |
| Address | Chancery Annex, 1617 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036 |
| Phone | (202) 467-9300 |
| consular@phembassy-us.org | |
| Hours | Embassy: Mon–Fri 9:00 AM–5:00 PM · Consular frontline (appointment required): passports Mon–Fri 9:00 AM–3:00 PM, dual citizenship Tue–Fri 9:00 AM–12:00 PM, notarials Mon–Fri 1:00 PM–3:00 PM |
How far the consulate is from your city
Driving distances to the post that covers each city, calculated at posted speed limits and without traffic:
| City | Philippine post | Distance | Journey |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | Washington, D.C. | 711 miles | 13 h 3 min by car |
| Orlando | Washington, D.C. | 850 miles | 15 h 40 min by car |
| Tampa | Washington, D.C. | 902 miles | 16 h 52 min by car |
| St. Petersburg | Washington, D.C. | 924 miles | 17 h 20 min by car |
| Miami | Washington, D.C. | 1,053 miles | 19 h 22 min by car |
From Miami that is 19 h 22 min by car each way, which makes it worth checking the consular outreach schedule before committing to the drive: missions bring passport and dual citizenship services to cities without a post, and the appointments are free.
What can be done without leaving home
A large share of the trips people make to a Philippine consulate were never necessary. These three are handled entirely elsewhere:
- PSA certificates — birth, marriage, death, CENOMAR — come from the Philippine Statistics Authority and are ordered online.
- Apostilles on documents issued in Florida come from the state’s own competent authority. Since 15 May 2019 the consulate cannot authenticate them.
- NBI clearance is issued in the Philippines and applied for by mail; only the fingerprint card needs a consular officer.
Everything else, though, is worth the journey precisely because it cannot be done any other way — passport biometrics, the oath, and a signature on a special power of attorney witnessed in person.
The Embassy has run consular outreach missions in Tampa offering passports, dual citizenship and voter registration. For a Filipino in Miami, Orlando or Jacksonville that is usually the practical route to a new passport rather than a flight to Washington.
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