Who can file here from 31 August 2026
Philippine citizens and holders of a Philippine residence permit; Palau also falls into the consular district. The rule is the same across the whole system: an application is taken by the consulate of the country you are a citizen or a permanent resident of, and it is built into the e-visa form itself. If you do not live in the Philippines, this is not your consulate — which one is, you can see on the map.
How filing works
The application and the payment are online: the fee of about $300, officially 18,000 pesos, goes through the consulate’s payment system on any non-Russian card. Then the path forks: some applications are decided on documents, some receive an invitation to an in-person interview in Manila. A decision takes two to four weeks.
What to account for in the package and the timing:
- a police clearance certificate — from the country of citizenship or the country of filing;
- three months of bank statements with a minimum balance of 500,000 ฿ per applicant, children included; for the main applicant a sponsorship letter is the formal alternative;
- the chance of an interview has to be planned for: a reschedule or a no-show voids the application;
- you have to be in the country while the application is considered — the decision is taken with the applicant present in the district.
How it worked before 31 August
Manila was one of the calm routes: a predictable timeline, a moderate fee and a clear fork over the interview. People who did not live in the Philippines filed here too, simply staying in the country while the application ran — and that is exactly what closed on 31 August.
The observations that still serve residents: who gets called for an interview more often and who less is visible from the document package, and repeat applications after a refusal are handled here with a logic of their own — what changed in the package since the first attempt matters more at this consulate than at most.
What we track here
The share of interview invitations, the decision timelines, and which papers the consulate accepts as proof of Philippine residence.
A package you have assembled yourself we check before filing — the Preflight Check: $300, a written report within two working days. Full support all the way to the visa is the Solo Route and Family Route.
The state of every consulate is on the live board, and the consulate assigned to your country is on the map.