PH Consulate in SF Returns to Alaska, Renders 966 Service During Consular Outreach in Anchorage

PH CONSULATE IN SF RETURNS TO ALASKA, RENDERS 966 SERVICES DURING CONSULAR OUTREACH IN ANCHORAGE

Successful dual citizenship applicants take their Oaths of Allegiance before Vice Consul Adrian Baccay, during the consular outreach of the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco at the Alaska Airlines Center, University of Alaska Anchorage in Anchorage, Alaska on 2-5 September 2022. (San Francisco PCG photos)

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – Following its consular outreach in Juneau in May 2022, the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco, in coordination with the Office of Philippine Honorary Consul to Alaska Rebecca Carrillo, conducted anew a consular outreach in the state’s largest city of Anchorage, providing 966 consular services to Filipinos and Filipino Americans from 2 to 5 September 2022.

In a statement, Philippine Consul General in San Francisco Neil Ferrer said that the second consular outreach in Alaska this year is “part of our continuing mandate to provide timely consular services to kababayans in the 10 U.S. states under the Consulate’s jurisdiction, as far as America’s ‘Last Frontier’.”

“I extend my deepest gratitude to Philippine Honorary Consul to Alaska Rebecca Carrillo, Chief of Staff Randall Ruaro of the Office of Alaska Governor Michael Dunleavy, the University of Alaska Anchorage under the leadership of Chancellor Sean Parnell, and the volunteers and sponsors from the Filipino American Communities in Anchorage and Kodiak for their contributions in making the consular outreach in Anchorage a success,” Consul General Ferrer said.

A 10-person team traveled by air from San Francisco to render mainly passport and dual citizenship services to Filipinos in the state.

The Consulate rendered a total of 966 consular services to Filipinos in Alaska, including 664 passport applications and renewals, 294 dual citizenship applications, six acknowledgments and certifications, and two civil registrations. The first day of the consular outreach served mainly applicants from the island of Kodiak, which is 410 miles away from Anchorage.

The Consulate will conduct its next consular outreach in Washington State, tentatively on 7-11 October 2022. The indicative schedule of the remaining consular outreaches for 2022 is available on the Consulate’s official website: https://pcgsanfrancisco.org/consular-outreach-missions/. END

Scenes from the Alaska Airlines Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage, the venue of the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco’s consular outreach in Anchorage, Alaska. (San Francisco PCG, Honorary Consul Rebecca Carrillo photos)
Vice Consul Adrian Baccay presents a “Bucket List Philippines” coffee table book from the Department of Tourism to Ryan Buchholdt, Filipino American Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services of the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), as a token of gratitude for allowing the Filipino American Community in Anchorage to host the consular outreach at the UAA’s Alaska Airlines Center. (Honorary Consul Rebecca Carrillo photo