Passport for minor children - Overseas Filipino Workers OFW Connect Forum

Date: May 26, 2004

Passport for minor children

Date: May 26, 2004

Please visit the Department of Foreign Affairs Website and contact them directly on this email address passportdo@dfa.gov , don't worry they'll reply immediately. It should have foreign mission office near in your area.If it's not Philippine Embassy, it could be just a consulate or just an office. Please visit the links below...these three contains addresses of Philippines Mission Overseas...

Maybe your situation is like us here in brunei (but we have an embassy here). what I'm saying is the Canadian Embassy, they don't have it here in Brunei but they have this office called a mission. So whoever wants to apply for an Immigrant Visa, we need to send application to Singapore and go there for interview...

So it could be the same in your place, maybe there's a Philippine Embassy outside that country where you are now but just beside or near of it...or if there's a small office of Philippine Embassy right there in your area, I think just to obtain an authenticated letter couldn't be a problem. it's no need to go out in Trinidad.

If there's an office of Philippine Embassy right in your place, and if you're children are with you, what I know is you can directly apply passport from that office of our Embassy or Consulate...No need to ask assistance from your relatives in Philippines especially if your children were born in Trinidad...

Please just check out the links below and/or contact the DFA in Manila for more questions.

http://www.dfa.gov.ph/posts/pemb.htm - Philippine Embassies
http://www.dfa.gov.ph/posts/philcon.htm - Philippine Consulates
http://www.dfa.gov.ph/posts/extension.htm ( Extension Mission Office - check this one, there are extension office listed here somewhere near in your place)

http://www.gov.ph/cat_foreignaffairs/default.asp (visit this one too, if you want to read more about Philippines Foreign Affairs information)

Date: May 26, 2004

Thank you very much in entertaining our inquiries. I tried to email at list trice at passportdo@dfa.gov for the past month but I didn't receive any reply. My situation is, we are here in Trinidad & Tobago for the past 9 moths, I'm working here as a direct hired in a Construction Firm. Trinidad & Tobago is one of the Caribbean Island located close to South America. Me and my wife lift the Philippines for an adventure, and lift behind our two kids (5 and 7 years old). I'm a Filipino as well as my wife and our kids. The problem is before we lift Philippines we did not able to get the passport for the kids. We asked our family in the Philippines to process the passport of our kids but the DFA is asking an authenticated letter from the embassy in order to approved the application or otherwise if can't be provided they need the presence of both mother and father. Air fair from here to Phil's is very expensive that's why me in my wife can't go home together to process the kids passport. The problem right now to get this authenticated letter is we don't have a nearest embassy or consulate here in Trinidad & tobago and only Washington DC is the closest. What we want to know if there is any alternative for the letter of authentication let say if from government of T & T instead of the embassy.
I forwarded the same enquiry to the DFA in Philippines but unfortunately we don't receive any reply.

Date: May 27, 2004

Kung sa Washing DC lang pinakamalapit ay doon lang kayo puwedeng mag-acquire ng authenticated letter, visit this page about Authenticated Letter FAQs http://www.philippineembassy-usa.org/authentication_of_doc.htm , according to this page you have to send your "Authorization Letter" by POST which is notarized by the authorities / lawyers / notary in Tobago Trinidad.

Kung minsan pwede yung kahit notarized na lang ng local lawyers (ex. sa Trinidad nga) pero advise ko ay ipa-authenticate niyo pa rin WA DC Phil Embassy para sigurado dahil new applicant ng passport ang mga anak niyo.

Kami noon ay ganyan din ang nangyari sa anak namin, pinalakad lang namin sa relatives din pero kumuha talaga kami ng Authenticate letter galing sa Embassy dito. Pero sa ngayon dahil may passport na siya at DSWD travel clearance na lang ang kukunin tuwing aalis papunta dito ay doon na lang kami sa notary ng Brunei kumuha ng Affidavit of Support, Authorization and Consent to Travel...na document which is okay naman...

Pero in your case dahil passport yan at medyo mahigpit sila pag-dating sa mga bata, ipa-authenticate niyo pa rin sa nearest embassy which is WA DC nga lang. Inquire din kayo sa kanila. Consular@philippineembassy-usa.org

Kukunin niyo ba ang mga anak niyo as petition or bakasyon lang? Kung gagawa kayo ng Authorization letter, ilagay niyo na rin pati pangalan ng tao na kasama ng anak ninyo na bibiyahe na kasabay ng anak niyo, at kung sino ang mag-lalakad lahat ng papeles nila, advise ko ay atleast two persons ang i-authorized niyo. Like us, we always put names of my brother and sister-in-law...and then should mention the fullnames of your children, identification of authorized persons, address and telephone.