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DFA opens 100,000 passport appointment slots

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced that it will open 100,000 additional passport slots for February to May 2018.

Booking a slot for the said additional appointments started at 1:00 PM today, January 23.

Earlier this year, Filipinos urged DFA to fix their system because passport appointment slots online are fully booked until March.

DFA promised that they will look for feasible solutions to fix the problem.

Aside from the additional appointment slots, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano also said that one of the solutions will be the opening of new DFA offices in the following places this year:

• San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte
• Santiago, Isabela
• Malolos or Meycauayan, Bulacan
• Calamba or San Pablo City, Laguna
• Dasmariñas City, Cavite
• Antipolo, Rizal
• Oroquieta City or Ozamis City, Misamis Occidental
• Tagum, Davao del Norte

Aside from new offices, four mobile passport processing units or “passport-on-wheels” will also make rounds to process additional passports every day.

The first Passport-On-Wheels was already launched at Manila City Hall last week.

The DFA currently processes 9,000 passports per day, but with the new offices and passport processing units, that will increase to 15,000.

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