Philippine Embassy in Ottawa
The Embassy handles consular services for Eastern Ontario and the Ottawa-Gatineau region, all of Quebec, the four Atlantic provinces and Nunavut. If you live in the Toronto area or west of it, your office is the Consulate General in Toronto, and a passport application filed at the wrong post is not forwarded.
The Philippine Embassy at 30 Murray Street, a few blocks from Parliament Hill in the ByWard Market district, is both the diplomatic mission to Canada and a working consular office.
Its consular section serves close to 53,000 Filipinos across the largest territory of any Philippine post in the country: Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, and the eastern slice of Ontario that includes Kingston, Belleville and the capital region itself.
Contacting the Ottawa office
- Address
30 Murray Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 5M4 - Telephone
(613) 233-1121 - Fax
(613) 233-4165 - Website
ottawape.dfa.gov.ph
Distance is the defining fact of this jurisdiction. A Filipino in St. John's is 2,700 km from Murray Street by road and ferry, which is why the Embassy runs consular outreach missions to cities like Fredericton and Montreal several times a year.
If a trip to Ottawa is hard to justify, check the outreach calendar before booking anything: the same passport biometrics can often be captured in your own province a few months later.
What the Ottawa office handles
This is one of the four posts in Canada where biometrics can be captured, which makes it the room every passport in its territory eventually passes through.
- Passports, new and renewals, CAD 93, printed in Manila in eight to ten weeks
- Travel documents, the one-way emergency paper, CAD 46.50
- 9(a) visas for stays beyond the visa-free 30 days, from CAD 46.50
- Dual citizenship under RA 9225, CAD 77.50 plus 38.75 per dependent
- Notarials, CAD 38.75 per document, personal appearance required
- Civil registry reports of births, marriages and deaths in its own territory, CAD 38.75
What you can do without coming in
Before planning a trip here, separate what needs a person from what needs a browser.
- PSA certificates, the PSA prints them in Manila and psahelpline.ph ships to any Canadian address
- NBI clearance renewal, anyone cleared since 2014 can reorder without new fingerprints
- Appointment booking, slots open online and each applicant, minors included, books their own
- eTravel registration, done on a phone in the 72 hours before departure
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