PASSPORT APPLICATION SA PINAS
Sa mga may kamag-anak sa atin na gustong mag-apply o magre-renew ng passport na-transfer na po ang Consular office (division na gumagawa ng passport) sa may ASEANA Business Park (malapit sa Mall Of Asia) at di na po sila tumatangap ng walk-in applicants thru confirmed appoinments na lang. Narito po ang ibang detalye...
Passport Applications with Confirmed Appointments to be Accepted Starting March 8 at New Consular Building
5 March 2010 - The Office of Consular Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA-OCA) announced that application for passport of applicants will be accepted and processed at the new OCA building starting March 8, Monday.
The new 7,000-square meter, four-storey OCA building is located at the corner of Macapagal Avenue and Bradco Street, Aseana Business Park.
Applicants may set an appointment by going on line (www.passport.com.ph) or by calling 737-1000. Travel agents can secure an appointment at www.dfa.gov.ph or email at [email protected]. They may also call 834-4961, 834-4855 and 834-3707 for other details.
Applicants are no longer required to bring photographs since they will have their pictures taken using ePassport data capturing machines at DFA-OCA.
They still need to bring other necessary requirements such as the application form that is available for download at the DFA website and at the reception desks of the new consular building.
Only those with confirmed appointments will be accommodated at the new facility.
"This appointment system will be strictly implemented to enable DFA to pre-process information submitted in advance by an applicant, thus avoiding long queues, as experienced by walk-in applicants at the DFA-OCA main office in Roxas Boulevard," OCA Assistant Secretary Renato L. Villapando said.
The new ePassport technology has built-in capacity to detect fraud by capturing biometrics, signature, and fingerprints of applicants. Applicants are also advised that only genuine documents should be submitted.
Meanwhile, to avoid being victimized by fixers, applicants are advised to deal only with DFA-OCA personnel inside the building. No escorts are allowed to accompany individual applicants.
The new OCA building is part of the ongoing modernization program initiated by Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto G. Romulo to further improve the DFA's frontline services which include harnessing new technologies in passport and visa issuances and streamlined procedures in the authentication of documents.
"It is part of our dream for the Filipino people to have a world-class passport and consular services. We have done it through the Machine-Readable Passport and the ePassport, and now the dream is complete with the new DFA-OCA building," Secretary Romulo said.
source::: http://dfa.gov.ph/main/index.php/press-releases/795-passport-application...
