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In his 1947 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Manuel Roxas announced that missions in a number of other cities were also opened aside from the embassy in Washington, D.C.; [4] these included the first consulates general in New York City, San Francisco, and Honolulu, as well as consulates in Xiamen and Hong Kong. [5]
The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco is headed by Consul General Neil Frank R. Ferrer, who assumed his post in January 2021. Currently, the consulate's jurisdiction covers northern and central California, northern Nevada, and the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Alaska.
It is located at 1600 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C. [1] It predates the independence of the Philippines, and is the oldest Philippine legation overseas, though the distinction of the first Philippine embassy proper overseas, belongs to the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo.
Consulate 1961 [47] Seattle Colombia: Consulate 1922 [106] Germany: Consulate 2000 [107] Philippines: Consulate-General Unknown [108] [109] Russia: Consulate-General 2018 [110] Tacoma Empire of Japan: Consulate 1901 [111] Tampa Colombia: Consulate 1990 [112] Cuba: Consulate-General 1960 [47
In 2021, the United States was the largest source of remittances to the Philippines, making up 40.5% of the $31.4 billion remittances received by the Philippines. [ 413 ] Filipino Americans own a variety of businesses, making up 10.5% of all Asian owned businesses in the United States in 2007. [ 414 ]
The Embassy of the United States of America in Manila is the diplomatic mission of the United States in the Philippines. It is situated at Roxas Boulevard in Ermita, Manila. The Embassy has been representing the United States Government since the Philippines was granted independence on July 4, 1946. The Manila mission is one of the US ...
The current Philippine Consulate General in Houston was opened on September 24, 2018, 25 years after the first consulate was closed in September 1993. That first consulate was closed ostensibly due to budget issues, [2] as well as the low number of Filipinos in the area at the time. [3]
The Philippine Center is an agency of the Philippine Government in New York City and San Francisco in the United States. The New York City structure houses the Philippine Mission to the United Nations, the Philippine Consulate General, and the overseas offices of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Tourism.