How can I get an NBI Clearance without going home to the Philippines?

Visit the Philippine Consulate in Vancouver or send a request letter with a self-addressed prepaid return envelope to ask for a Fingerprint Card Form No. 5

Fingerprint Card Form – fill in the personal data required on both sides of this card truthfully and legibly.

• In case you are a married woman, the order of writing your name is as follows:
• Your maiden surname (father’s surname)
• Your husband’s surname
• Your first name or given name
• Your maternal surname (maiden surname of your mother)

Proceed to the Philippine Consulate General or to your nearest police agency (RCMP)  to have your fingerprints impressed (ROLLED IMPRESSION) on the appropriate spaces. The officer/person who fingerprinted you should sign his name, and state his official designation on the space provided for the purpose.

Attach a recent 2" x 2" photograph with white background (taken within three months prior to your application).

Submit the NBI Fingerprint Card Form No. 5 to the Philippine Consulate General for consularization with the following:

• payment of $28.75 cash (if submitting the form in person at the Consulate) or money order made payable to the Philippine Consulate General (if submitting the form in via mail)
• back to back copy of the Fingerprint Card Form No. 5
• self-addressed prepaid return envelope (optional)
• photocopies of passport data page & the page showing your admittance in Canada
• photocopy of applicant's PR card or work permit 

After receipt of your document from the Philippine Consulate General, send your accomplished form to:

Enclose Money Order in the sum of Php 200.00, Philippine currency, or bank draft which is negotiable in the Philippines payable to the Director, National Bureau of Investigation, Taft Avenue, Ermita 1000 Manila, Philippines. Accredited banks are the following:

• Philippine National Bank (PNB)

365 West Broadway, Vancouver BC V5Y 1P8

Tel. (604) 737-4944

e-mail:

Suite 13521 - 102 Ave., Surrey BC V3T 4X8

Tel. (604) 581-6762

e-mail:

(Applicants will be issued a money remittance receipt.  Send this receipt along with your NBI application documents to NBI, Manila)

• Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Co. (HSBC)
• ANZ – A New Zealand Bank
• Metrobank
• Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI)

NBI will mail to you the corresponding clearance certificate after it has processed your application papers. Processing of application normally takes a maximum of three (3) days excluding days of transit.

You may also send your accomplished form to your relative/representative in the Philippines together with authorization letter authorizing him/her to transact business on your behalf. Your relative/representative may visit the office of the Electronic Data Processing Division (EDPD) in NBI Taft Avenue, Manila for further assistance.

Upon receipt of your clearance certificate, please examine it for the presence of the embossed NBI DRY SEAL at its lower left portion; the clearance is invalid without it. You must also affix your clear and properly taken THUMBPRINT on the space provided on the clearance certificate with the assistance of the local police in your area before submitting it to your end-user.