{"id":143583,"date":"2018-01-03T22:11:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=143583"},"modified":"2018-01-03T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:11:16","slug":"dfa-starts-issuing-passports-with-10-year-validity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/03\/dfa-starts-issuing-passports-with-10-year-validity\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA starts issuing passports with 10-year validity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102644\" style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Philippine_Passport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102644\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Philippine_Passport.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday announced that issuance of passports with 10-year validity starts January 3. (Photo: Philippine News Agency)\" width=\"539\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Philippine_Passport.jpg 539w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Philippine_Passport-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday announced that issuance of passports with 10-year validity starts January 3. (Photo: Philippine News Agency)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday announced that issuance of passports with 10-year validity starts January 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since January 1 and 2 were holidays, passport applications made starting today, January 3, shall be 10-year valid, provided the applicant is not a minor,&#8221; said Director Geronimo Suliguin, officer in charge for DFA-Office of Public Diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>As per the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 10928 or Act Extending the Validity of Philippine Passports, only applicants 18 years old above will be provided with a 10-year valid passport, those below 18 years old will be issued with five-year validity.<\/p>\n<p>In a text message, Suliguin told the Philippine News Agency that regular release schedules are still observed for applications made from all DFA units.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, for expedited applications made in DFA National Capital Region units today, he said they expect to release the passports on January 12.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine passports issued prior to Jan. 1, 2018 with a validity period of five years will remain valid until expiration.<\/p>\n<p>Both booklets with 10-year and 5-year validity will not have a change in design, security features, and the number of pages. Further, there are also no changes in passport application fees.<\/p>\n<p>While original application fees are retained, additional costs may apply once the DFA add pages, change materials, and enhance security features of the passports, according to the IRR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday announced that issuance of passports with 10-year validity starts January 3. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[9396,119],"class_list":["post-143583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-department-of-foreign-affairs","tag-passport","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}