For those with expired or expiring passport who wish to travel abroad soon, you need to renew your passport in the Department of Foreign Affairs or DFA.
See this other article Passport Requirements for First Time Applicant.
As your international travel date approaches, make sure to check the validity of your passport. Immigration law requires that your Philippine passport must be valid at least 6 months on your travel date.
Demo 1: If your fly date to Hong Kong is December 2018, your passport will expire by March 2019 (3 months from December 2018), immigration officer will not allow you to board your plane.
Demo 2: Your trip to Hong Kong will be on December 2018, your passport will expire by August 2019 (8 months from December 2018) you will be allowed to fly.
Here is the list of requirements for Philippine passport renewal:
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
- Personal appearance of passport applicant.
- Confirmed appointment for passport processing. (There are certain cases allowed for walk-ins, please read further below for details.)
- Duly accomplished passport application form which may be downloaded from the DFA website. See link at the bottom.
- Most recent expiring or expired passport.
- Acceptable IDs at least one (1): for Brown, Green and MRP (without IC Chip logo). Please refer to List of Acceptable IDs.
- Other Supporting Document as necessary
LIST OF ACCEPTABLE IDS (Present at least 1 of the following if you are renewing passport, present at least 2 if you are a first-timer.):
Government-issued picture IDs such as the following:
- Digitized SSS ID
- Driver’s License
- GSIS E-card
- PRC ID
- IBP ID
- OWWA ID
- Digitized BIR ID
- Senior Citizen’s ID
- Unified Multi-Purpose ID
- Voter’s ID
- Improved Postal ID (PHLPost Improved Postal ID is now accepted as Primary ID in passport application. The (old) basic Postal ID which is the laminated paper version can’t be used as Primary ID. UPDATE 2018: Per checking on the official website of DFA, Digitized Postal ID is not considered as Primary but if you go to official website of Phlpost the digitized postal ID is still considered as Primary ID)
*NOTE – If it’s your first time to apply for a PH passport, recommended ID to bring is government-issued digitized IDs. Bring as many as you have just to be sure so you won’t waste time, money, and effort in going to the Department of Foreign Affairs (example: Voter’s ID, UMID or SSS ID, Driver’s License. etc.)
Other acceptable picture IDs such as the following
- Old College ID
- Alumni ID
- Old Employment IDs
LIST OF SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS (Old documents issued at least one year prior to date of application that show correct name, date and place of birth, picture and signature of applicant, at least 2 of the following if you are a first-timer; if renewing no need to present supporting docs if you can present a valid government ID as listed above together with your expired/expiring passport):
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- PSA Marriage Contract
- Land Title
- Seaman’s Book
- Elementary or High School Form 137 or Transcript of Records with readable dry seal
- Government Service Record
- NBI Clearance
- Police Clearance
- Barangay Clearance
- Readable SSS-E1 Form or Microfilmed Copy of SSS-E1 Form
- Voter’s Certification, List of Voters and Voter’s Registration Record (please attach receipt)
- School Yearbook
- Paper based Postal ID
*ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS*
For holders of Brown Passport or passports issued prior to 01 May 1995:
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- Bring original brown passport and photocopy of passport pages 1,2,3,4 and last page.
- Birth Certificate (BC) in Security Paper (SECPA) issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) or Certified True Copy (CTC) of BC issued by the Local Civil Registrar (LCR) and duly authenticated by PSA, to determine complete middle name.
- If PSA Birth Certificate is blurred or unreadable; transcribed certified true copy of the birth certificate from the Local Civil Registry is required when entries in PSA Birth Certificate are blurred or unreadable.
- If born abroad, Report of Birth duly authenticated by PSA
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For holders of Green Passport or passports issued after 01 May 1995:
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- Bring original green passport and photocopy of the data page and last page of passport.
- Birth Certificate (BC) in Security Paper (SECPA) issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) or Certified True Copy (CTC) of BC issued by the Local Civil Registrar (LCR) and duly authenticated by PSA, to determine complete middle name
- If PSA Birth Certificate is blurred or unreadable; transcribed certified true copy of the birth certificate from the Local Civil Registry is required when entries in PSA Birth Certificate are blurred or unreadable.
- If born abroad, Report of Birth duly authenticated by PSA
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For holders of Machine Readable Passport (MRP without IC Chip logo) issued in the year 2007:
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- Bring original passport and photocopy of data page and last page of passport
- Birth Certificate (BC) in Security Paper (SECPA) issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) or Certified True Copy (CTC) of BC issued by the Local Civil Registrar (LCR) and duly authenticated by PSA, to determine complete middle name
- If PSA Birth Certificate is blurred or unreadable; transcribed certified true copy of the birth certificate from the Local Civil Registry is required when entries in PSA Birth Certificate are blurred or unreadable.
- If born abroad, Report of Birth duly authenticated by PSA
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For holders of Electronic Passport (E-passport)
Bring original e-passport and photocopy of page 2 (data page).
For women who would change their civil status from single to married:
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- Marriage Contract (MC) in Security Paper (SECPA) issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) or Certified True Copy (CTC) of MC issued by the Local Civil Registrar (LCR) and duly authenticated by PSA.
- If entries are blurred or unreadable, submit Transcribed Marriage Contract from the LCR
- If married abroad, Report of Marriage duly authenticated by PSA
- Original and photocopy of Commission of Filipino Overseas (CFO) Guidance and Counseling Certificate of Attendance (This is only required for women with foreign national husband married in the Philippines).
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For these special cases, kindly inquire direct from DFA for the passport renewal requirements:
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- For married women who would like to revert to their maiden name.
- For minor applicants, requirements for first time minor applicants are still prescribed, in addition to the passport of minor.
- For Applicants who availed of Dual Citizenship under RA 9225.
- For Applicants who were naturalized.
- For Applicants who elected Philippine Citizenships.
- For Muslim Applicants
- For divorced women
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For passport concerns, you may contact DFA Hotline number (02) 556 0000.
PASSPORT WALK-INS INFO 2018
A. For Regular Individuals, only the following group are ALLOWED for walk-ins:
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- Returning OFW/Seaman (First time OFWs who have valid documents of employment like contract may walk-in at DFA)
- Medical Emergency
- Death of Family Member
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B. The following special group / priority cases are also allowed for walk-ins:
There is a special priority lane “Courtesy Lane Facility” for passport applicants who are:
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- Seniors
- PWDs
- Pregnant Women with medical certificate
- and Minors (7 years old and below) accompanied by a Parent/Guardian
- and other priority groups, please see this post: DFA Courtesy Lane Facility Availment
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For this group allowed for walk-in, you can download the DFA passport application form. Make sure that you completely fill-up the form before submitting it to the DFA office together with all the other requirements.
For the rest of us, we need to schedule an appointment for passport renewal and new passport application. We need to learn how to schedule an appointment in DFA for passport.
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