Philippine Consulate in Paterson, NJ
The Philippine consulate for Paterson is the Philippine Consulate General in New York. It is 20 miles away, about 31 min by road, and it is the only office that can process applications from Paterson: an appointment booked anywhere else is a wasted appointment.
Philippine consulate for Paterson: which consulate covers it
Jurisdiction runs by state, and New Jersey, all of it, is assigned to New York. The same consulate covers Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. See the New Jersey page for the rest of the state's cities and distances.
20 miles from the consulate, Paterson is close enough that a forgotten photocopy is an annoyance rather than a disaster. That is a rarer privilege than it sounds in a country this size.
Before you plan the trip from Paterson
Check this list first, it covers most of the reasons people book an appointment they did not need:
- PSA documents, the security-paper certificates everything else depends on, are ordered online and shipped internationally.
- Apostilles: if anyone tells you to get a document "red ribboned" at the consulate, that advice predates 2019 and no longer works.
- The NBI clearance is issued in the Philippines. The consulate’s only part is notarising your 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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