Philippine Consulate in Memphis, TN
There is no Philippine consulate in Memphis, and the consulate that covers it, the Embassy of the Philippines. Consular Section in Washington, D.C., is not a casual trip: 878 miles away, about 16 h 7 min by road. That makes the order of this page deliberate: first what you can do from Memphis without travelling, then what genuinely requires the counter.
Which Philippine consulate serves Memphis
Jurisdiction runs by state, and Tennessee, all of it, is assigned to Washington, D.C.. The same consulate 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. See the Tennessee page for the rest of the state's cities and distances.
At 878 miles (16 h 7 min), Memphis is far enough from Washington, D.C. that the journey is a genuine expense, not an inconvenience. Plan it around a mission if one is announced.
For distances like this, the consular outreach programme is the answer that actually gets used: consulates periodically set up temporary consular offices in cities without one, taking passports and dual citizenship oaths. Appointments are free, passport slots open at passport.gov.ph about a month before each mission, and they fill. The appointment guide explains how the schedule works.
Before you plan the trip from Memphis
The most common wasted journey in this system is for a document the consulate cannot produce. There are three of them:
- 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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