Philippine Consulate in Springfield, IL
The Philippine consulate for Springfield is the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago. It is 202 miles away, about 3 h 53 min by road, and it is the only office that can process applications from Springfield: an appointment booked anywhere else is a wasted appointment.
Which Philippine consulate serves Springfield
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.
3 h 53 min each way, 202 miles: from Springfield this is an appointment you build a day around. It rewards preparation more than punctuality.
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.
- An apostille is issued by the Secretary of State of whichever state produced the document. The consulate stopped authenticating on 15 May 2019.
- NBI clearance: posted to Manila, returned by post. Do not send the application to a consulate, it will not be processed there.
The counter is unavoidable for exactly three things: passport biometrics, the RA 9225 oath and signing a notarial document in front of an officer. Everything else deserves a second look before you drive.
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