A Philippine passport is a travel document and is a Primary National ID issued to citizens of the Philippines. It is issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Philippine diplomatic missions abroad, with certain exceptions. Besides facilitating international travel and conferring diplomatic assistance to Filipinos overseas, a Philippine passport is considered a primary form of identification in the Philippines, particularly because there is no national identity card system in the country.
The passport is a popular target for counterfeiters, due largely to the relatively liberal visa requirements accorded to Philippine travelers to destinations such as Brunei, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and other APEC and ASEAN member nations. Due to this, the Department of Foreign Affairs started issuing maroon machine-readable passports since September 17, 2007, and biometric passports since August 11, 2009. The green colored cover non-electronic passports are still acceptable until they expire. Philippine passports are printed at the Security Plant Complex of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
Below is the list of countries where Philippine Passport Holder can enter the country that doesn’t require a visa:
Countries in Asia
Country No. of days allowed Official Webpage Embassy Phone Numbers in the Philippines
Brunei Up to 14 days none +63-2-816-2836 / +63-2-816-2837
Cambodia Up to 21 days
Homepage +63-2-818-9981 / +63-2-810-1896
Hong Kong Up to 14 days
Visa requirement page (See Table)
Indonesia Up to 30 days
Visa exemption page +63-2-892-5061
Israel Up to 90 days
Visa exemption PDF +63-2-894-0441 / +63-2-894-0443
Laos Up to 30 days
Exemption table +63-2-852-5759 / +63-2-852-5979
Macau Up to 30 days
Visa free countries webmaster@macau-embassy.org (US)
