need to renew passport urgent.. walk-in dfa office?

[juliet beltejar 0]

hello everyone, 

 

My friend needs to renew her passport immediately, she is married to a US  citizen and she needs to leave soon. 

do you guys know any dfa office that accepts walk-in applicants?

 

Thank you..

[Greenbaum 12,259]

Passport applications or renewals are served by appointment only. Please see https://www.passport.gov.ph/  for additional information.

[notantifun 196]

There are circumstances when DFA would allow application to be expedited but you have to have valid reason/s e.g. plane tickets already paid for and the amount of time til your departure. There is a trick many people pressed for time do. They book their appointment at cities/provinces outside Metro Manila (Baguio, Pangasinan) as there are way less applicants there and there are more available appointments. This happened to me and I didn't know of the trick back then. This was a couple of years ago. I booked my appointment at a travel agency as they have a reserved number of appointments in DFA. You have to scout multiple agencies though before paying for your appointment. You wanna of course book the earliest. And of course this means you pay more.

[Hank_ 9,174]

10 hours ago, juliet beltejar said:

hello everyone, 

 

My friend needs to renew her passport immediately, she is married to a US  citizen and she needs to leave soon. 

do you guys know any dfa office that accepts walk-in applicants?

 

Thank you..

Leaving to go where, to the USA?  Does she have a green card?  Or are they taking a trip somewhere else?   

 

DFA stopped accepting walk-ins a few years back, especially around metro Manila.  Maybe some of the smaller satellite offices will allow a walk-in, but I would count on it.

[juliet beltejar 0]

16 minutes ago, Hank_ said:

Leaving to go where, to the USA?  Does she have a green card?  Or are they taking a trip somewhere else?   

 

DFA stopped accepting walk-ins a few years back, especially around metro Manila.  Maybe some of the smaller satellite offices will allow a walk-in, but I would count on it.

she is leaving for Germany.  She needs to have a passport really soon.  I guess she will still try her luck and will try to walk-in.

[Hank_ 9,174]

She she grab an appt while at it, just to be prepared.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

You can always be prepared with hand greese. I don't know the going rate but I guess it depends on how fast you want the passport. I guess I'm curious why you didn't apply earlier so you wouldn't be in this jam. Passports always have taken the longest to get processed. Oh well, good luck. 

[Sagot 1,548]

Some place are cracking down on "grease".   When we were nearing time to fly back to the states we had to get a health certificate for our dog.  When we got to BAI there were signs on the doors that stated no gratuities, we arrived early before the office opened and the staff that arrived early took care of our certificate in short order so my asawa tried to show gratitude for their service ... those people backed away from the "gratuity" very quickly.   I had to point out the sign to my asawa so she understood why they refused, and to stop trying to give it to them.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

Looks to me that she was doing it graciously and not to receive any favors. Giving money after the fact in my opinion should not be considered "greese". I applaud her for her thought.

[Sagot 1,548]

1 hour ago, Greenbaum said:

Looks to me that she was doing it graciously and not to receive any favors. Giving money after the fact in my opinion should not be considered "greese". I applaud her for her thought.

I applaud the Philippines for starting to get control of the "grease" issue.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

I agree. I hope is soon disappears as it hampers those who do things "by the book".