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Posted By admin On 15/04/22Do you have plans to get a passport later this year? Good news: Slots are now open for passport applicants! Bad news: They are going FAST.
Appointment slots for May 2020 to Jul 2020 are still available. If you do not see available online appointment slots, it does not necessarily mean that they have been completely taken up. Please CLICK REFRESH as online appointments become available from time to time. DFA Secretary Locsin sees 2021 as a good year. December 28, 2020. Despite the ongoing pandemic challenges, Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin is feeling positive that some businesses and OFWs who lost their jobs from the previous months will come roaring back from the devastation of COVID-19 pandemic.
According to a public advisory released by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on May 1, Filipinos on can book an appointment at one of the DFA consular offices in the Philippines between July and September 2018.
The agency initially announced (April 27) that online passport appointments would only be available up to June 30. This was to give the agency time to test and implement the ePayment system. The DFA has since retracted that statement.
When and where are passport online appointment slots available?
“Beginning 2 May 2018, and every day thereafter, the Department of Foreign Affairs will open passport online appointment slots for July to September 2018 for Consular Offices in the Philippines with the exception of DFA Aseana in Paranaque City,” said the advisory.
The Aseana consular office of the agency will not be included in the open slots for July to September because of the final stages of the ePayment scheme. According to the DFA, the DFA Aseana pilot for the advance payment system is about to wrap up, with positive results yielded.
(Read: DFA Appointment: Your Definitive Guide To Philippine Passport Application)
“The pilot tests have shown promising results. Show-up rates have risen to 95 percent and above, minimizing the number of slots wasted through non-appearance. There are no bogus appointments as applicants now have to pay before an appointment is confirmed. The time applicants spend at DFA has been reduced considerably, with ePayment decreasing the usual processing time,” said the statement.
Who are exempted from online appointments?
While everyone has to go through the same application process, the following groups can apply or renew their passports without an online appointment:
- Senior citizens
- Persons with disability
- Solo parents
- Minors aged seven years old and below
- People with “emergency and urgent travels”
These people can go to any DFA passport application office nationwide including the DFA Aseana office.
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Netizens complain about unavailable slots
Hours after the DFA declared new slots open, people rushed to the website to book their appointment. However, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported that there were zero available online passport appointments on the website.
“INQUIRER.net checked passport.gov.ph, the passport application portal of the DFA, shortly after midnight on May 2, but there were no available slots,” according to the Inquirer article.
(Read: DFA Passport Renewal Requirements And Other Things You Need To Know)
Many disappointed people left comments on the DFA Facebook page regarding the error message they received and the inexistence of the slots for July to September.
The announcement was pinned on the agency’s Facebook post and garnered more than 6,000 comments from disgruntled applicants. We fetched some comments from the thread:
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Is there hope still?
The last time we checked, the passport appointment website was working and appointment slots were available but going fast. Especially the ones in Metro Manila.
If you’re looking to book an appointment, you have to book your schedule as soon as possible. Also, if you don’t mind traveling outside Metro Manila, check the other areas.
When we checked at 6:22 p.m. on May 2, there were remaining slots are the Legazpi, Megamall, Cotabato, General Santos, Iloilo, Puerto Princesa, and Tacloban passport centers
Sources: Department of Foreign Affairs, Passport.gov.ph, The Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Apply NowEarly of 2017, slots for passport appointment are closing one by one much to the frustration of many applicants. This did not change by the start of 2018 where an increase of over 100k slots was added but still, this addition did not cater every past applicant and even the new ones.
UPDATE: How to renew your PASSPORT online.
Due to the increasing backlog, many Filipino are cursing the incompetence of the Department of Foreign Affairs or DFA in opening more slots to cater all those who wants to apply or renew their passport. The passport appointment system was controversial in January of 2018 due to the slots being fully booked until March of the same year causing many workers and travelers so much inconvenience.
This is why to accommodate the influx of applicants, TheDepartment of Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano released a statement on Thursday announcing that the DFA will open about 100,000 appointment slots for those who want to apply for a passport and those who wished to renew their passport.
Related: DFA Launches ePayment to Help Address Surge in Passport Appointment Demand
He clarified that the 10k appointments are on top of the 336,743 appointment slots for June 1 up to the 30th of September 2018 that are already taken. He also said in the briefing that the 50k slots will be open and available at the DFA website from noon and the other 50k will be open at around 9 p.m.
He added that the department also plans to open another 10k slots from Mondays to Saturdays at aroud 12 noon onwards until 9 p.m to further accommodate the rising number of passport applicants nationwide. However, only 12k slots are open for online applicants while 1,000 slots are available for the first time overseas Filipino workers through their licensed recruitment agencies, 4k slots for passport on wheels, and 2k slots for walk- in applicants.
The earliest appointment available in the website for the DFA office located at Aseana is on June 25. The agency reminded the applicant to refresh the website for the opening of more appointment slots.
Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1038265