#dfa appointment slots

said as reports on selling passport appointment slots in social media earlier made rounds. The DFA assured that passport appointment should be free of charge. To all Filipino travelers out there, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) now opens 100,000 passport appointments slots for February to May since 1 p.m. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has announced that it is opening five special off-site locations on July 7 to provide an additional 177,500 passport appointment slots to the public in the NCR Plus area. Appointment slots for all of the five TOPS may be accessed through the DFA’s online appointment system website. “The DFA is aware of the demand for passport appointment slots during the pandemic and so we prepared a temporary expansion of our consular operations in off-site locations to address this need while maintaining health and safety protocols”, said Undersecretary Dulay. According to DFA, each TOPS site has the capacity to accommodate 500 appointments daily and will operate from Mondays to Saturdays. With all sites operating at full capacity, 177,500 additional passport appointment slots have become available until the end of September on the DFA’s online appointment system on top of the regular appointment slots at the Department’s ASEANA office and its consular offices all over the Philippines. Read more in our articles including "DFA courtesy lane opens in all consular offices for eligible walk-in applicants" and "DFA opens 100,000 passport appointment slots for February to May".