Steps for Philippines Passport Application

Last Friday was my appointment of appearance at DFA, Office of Consular Affairs in Pasay City. From SM Makati, I took a ride of bus with route of Baclaran(MOA, DFA, MACAPAGAL). I drop in front of DFA Consular Affairs and I saw some fixers. For those new applicants like me, BEWARE OF FIXERS.
The guard then told us that the applicants who applied at their website were advise to enter at gate 2. Before properly entering at inside the vicinity, the guard there inspect if we have the application form which have the date for that day. After seeing the documents, they told to proceed to verifying area, the personnel will verify if we have the genuine application form and if we were schedule to apply on that day. After you have been verified, you will now proceed to waiting area until your scheduled time have been called.
Inside the DFA office, there 3 Steps to apply for Philippine Passport.

1. DOCUMENTS APPLICATION and REQUIREMENTS VERIFICATION
    The DFA personnel will review your application form and requirements if they are valid. If so, they will ask you the modes of payment and then told you to proceed on second floor for steps 2 and 3. Make sure that you have your complete requirements such as ID's and its photocopies, NSO Certified Birth Certificate and its photocopies and other supporting documents. For the complete list requirements, please visit http://epassport.com.ph/requirements.

2. PAYMENT
    After completing the step 1, you may now proceed to second floor at PAYMENT BOOTH. Pay the necessary amount, 950php for regular passport (20 working days) and 1200php for rush passport (10 working days). After paying, proceed to Step 3.

3. ENCODING and TAKING of PICTURE
    After paying the amount of your desired bill, you mat now proceed to ENCODING and PICTURE TAKING section. First, go to a personnel to get a number. Wait for your number to be called and when number was called, proceed to the booth listed on the tv monitor. The encoder will encode your information and make sure that they inputted it correctly. Those information will appear on your passport so you better take a look at the information that they encode. After encoding it, they will take you a picture and thumb mark together with your signature using the pen tablet. When you're done, decide whether you will apply for delivery or not. If you want your passport to be delivered, proceed to delivery area, pay 120php for the delivery or if you want to get your passport personally at the release date, don not proceed to it. And that's it. YOU'RE DONE. You will just wait until the release date of your passport.

For online passport application you can check DFA E-PASSPORT