Philippine Consulate in Aurora, IL
There is no Philippine consulate in Aurora. The office with jurisdiction is the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago, 42 miles away, about 59 min by road. This page covers what that means in practice: when the trip is unavoidable, and which procedures can be settled from Aurora without it.
Which Philippine consulate serves Aurora
Every Philippine procedure for a Illinois resident goes through Chicago: its district is Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Distances from the other cities in the state are on the Illinois page.
From Aurora it is 42 miles, 59 min, so a same-day return is realistic. It stops being realistic the moment a document is missing, which is the usual reason people make the trip twice.
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.
- Apostilles: if anyone tells you to get a document "red ribboned" at the consulate, that advice predates 2019 and no longer works.
- For an NBI clearance the whole file travels by mail; a consular officer only witnesses the fingerprint card.
What does require appearing in person is anything biometric or signed: a passport, the oath of allegiance and a special power of attorney signed before a consular officer.
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