For Passport Application and Renewal, you can now do it online for the application. You still need to make an appearance but the rest of the steps are convenient and easy
website: DFA Express Passport Delivery
After application, they will go pick up your passports from wherever you want, home or office, and get your fingerprint. There is a fee of P 1,300.00 per passport which you have to pay as they pick up your passport.
Then you will have to make a personal appearance in the Department of Foreign Affairs ( DFA ) in Roxas Blvd. where they will meet you and escort you so you do not need to wait or line up.
website: PASSPORT DIRECT
In less than five minutes, we were done, then last step will be for them to deliver the passport to you
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Thanks Rica, I have used this service twice and it really works. It saves the trouble of lining up yourself. From the entrance you skip the long line for the general public as you are guided into the inner compound where another agent will meet you and escort your for your personal appearance and fingerprinting. The waiting time for the fingerprinting can vary from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the line. Your passport gets delivered to your home. This is great if you are not in a hurry for renewing you passport.
I had trouble with the photos taken in the photo shop. Make sure there is sufficient clearance from the top of your head to the edge of the photo. Kodak express was not careful in trimming the photo so I had to have a retake. And remember, royal blue background only. With my photo problem, I got my passport after 3 weeks.
They also have a service for birth and marriage certificates. It is just a phone call away.
If everything is OK how long do you have to wait for the issuance or delivery to your home? Would it be within a week or a few days?
Might as well try this for my daughters’ passport renewal. By the way, there was a time Ricky was all set to leave for the airport when we noticed his passport has already expired a month ago. Eeeek!
Betty, they promise a week. Give it 2 weeks to be safe,
Just in time since we are about to renew our expired passports..
Thanks so much Ms. Rica!