Philippine Consulate in Joliet, IL
There is no Philippine consulate in Joliet. The office with jurisdiction is the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago, 45 miles away, about 1 h 4 min by road. This page covers what that means in practice: when the trip is unavoidable, and which procedures can be settled from Joliet without it.
Where Joliet is served from
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.
45 miles puts Joliet within comfortable reach: 1 h 4 min out, the same back. Book the earliest slot you can get and the whole thing fits inside a working day.
What you can settle from Joliet without travelling
Check this list first, it covers most of the reasons people book an appointment they did not need:
- 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.
- An apostille is issued by the Secretary of State of whichever state produced the document. The consulate stopped authenticating on 15 May 2019.
- 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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