Renewing your Philippine Passport
By cianoy
@cianoy (513)
Philippines
February 7, 2010 6:03pm CST
Here's my experience in renewing my Philippine Passport. What's yours?
How To Renew Your Philippine Passport
I am an administrative mess. I will be the first to tell you that. Thus, renewals, payment of bills and all sorts of paperwork are always at the bottom of my To Do list. In fact, I'd put it off even if I have nothing else to do. Well my Philippine Passport expired last March. Oops. So how did I renew my passport? It was actually an easy process.
I went on-line to Teleserv DFA Express Passport Delivery. Naturally I didn't know if it was legit. But hey, it was on top of a Google search so it had to be good. Turns out it was. I scanned through the requirements. For my situation (normal renewal), I just needed a couple of passport sized photos, photocopies of the first 5 pages and last travel entries in my passport. They'll take care of getting the old passport and delivering the new ones to you via courier (2GO). The total fees amounted to P1300, which was a couple of hundreds more than you handling it yourself. But hey, it's convenient.
Go to to the site and fill out the form. Make sure all the details are correct. The questions are intuitive so no problems there. You don't have to print it out. They will and they'll bring it to you for signing.
Everything is scheduled: the pick-up, the personal appearance in the DFA and the delivery. For the pick-up, the passport owner has to be there to sign some documents and for the fingerprints. Take note that you get to schedule all three. Like for me, I scheduled the pick-up and the personal appearance (no you can't avoid this) on succeeding Saturday mornings. During the personal appearance in the DFA, Teleserv will have several representatives who will spoon feed you on where to go. Not bad at all. And guess what, before our driver even found a parking space, it was all over. That must have been 15 minutes tops.
And then two weeks after (10 business day processing time), my renewed passport arrives via courier again. Mind you, there was no additional charge for my expired passport. Not bad. It's the second recent renewal I had without having to bribe anyone.
If you liked this, maybe you'd also like to read my adventures in Renewing my Philippine Drivers' License.
4 responses
@lovelots (146)
• Philippines
19 Feb 10
I had no problems renewing my passport. I did it online to avoid all the hassles. I'd rather pay a little bit more than to go through the tedious process they have at DFA. I just went there for the appearance and spent not more than 20 minutes in the building.
@xtedaxcvg (3189)
• Philippines
10 Feb 10
This is here is a very valuable piece of information you've shared to us. Thank you so much for sharing this. My wife is about to renew here passport and now we already know how to do it without the hassle. Thanks again!
@repzkoopz (1895)
• Philippines
8 Feb 10
heyhey! talk about timing! me and my dad are about to renew our passports this month.. its great to have dropped by this discussion! hehe.. i really needed some first hand experience story on this renewal. 
@thazz999 (1)
• Thailand
13 May 10
That is a pretty good comment, I had the same experience i only find it hard to park may car, but when i get my parking 20 mins is all it takes, the only problem i had was the photocopy machine inside, they will charge you 2 pesos per page and its not a good copy, but its the only copy machine you can find. and the queue is long, it took me 10 mins before i had a copy of my document.The rest is just walk in the park, and mind you 2GO even provided us free candy for sitting comfortably in the waiting gallery. that's special service.
Anyway i had another story to tell.
