Chinese Embassy Manila Address and Hours: The Consular Section, Phone Lines, Visa Filing and the Cebu, Davao and Laoag Consulates

Chinese Embassy Manila address: the chancery and the Consular Section are in different buildings

The Chinese Embassy in Manila has two separate addresses that matter: the chancery in Dasmariñas Village, and the Consular Section in the World Center on Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, which is where passports, travel documents and notarial services are handled.

According to the embassy's Contact Information page (updated 28 May 2026):

• Chancery: 1235 Acacia Street, Dasmarinas Village, Makati City (front gate); 4896 Pasay Road (Antonio S. Arnaiz Avenue), Dasmarinas Village, Makati City (rear gate).
• Consular Section: 2nd & 3rd Floor, the World Center, 330 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City. The embassy's passport application notice places the document counters (windows 1 and 2) on the 2nd floor.
• Commercial and Cultural Sections: 2A Tamarind Road, South Forbes Park, Makati City.
• Chinese Visa Application Service Center: the embassy's January 2024 notice gives its address as 6th Floor, Noble Square, 6762 Ayala Avenue, Makati City.

All four are in Makati, but they are different buildings. If you tell a driver only "Chinese Embassy", expect to be taken to the chancery. For almost any document errand, the building you want is the World Center, so give the full address including the floor.

Which one you need depends on who you are:

• A foreign national applying for a Chinese visa: go to the visa service center, not the embassy (see the visa section below).
• A Chinese national renewing or replacing a passport: the Consular Section, after booking through the China Consular app.
• Trade or cultural enquiries: the Commercial or Cultural Section on Tamarind Road.

One more distinction that trips people up: the Philippine embassy in Beijing and the Philippine consulates in China are a different set of offices, with their own addresses and hours; see the Philippine embassy and consulates in China. Many foreign missions in Manila now work by appointment, and holidays from two calendars apply; the general pattern is covered in our guide to embassies and consulates in Manila.

Addresses do change, and this page was revised in 2026, so check the mission's own site before you set out rather than relying on an old screenshot. If you are new to the Philippines and unsure whether a passport problem should start at the embassy or at the Bureau of Immigration, Yixing's settling-in assistance can help you work out the order first.

Office hours and holiday closures, including National Day 2026

The embassy accepts document applications Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., except public holidays; payment and collection, and the enquiry phone lines, run on their own schedules.

Keep the different clocks apart:

• Filing: the embassy's office address and application hours page states 9:00–11:00 a.m., Monday to Friday, public holidays excepted. Chinese nationals using the China Consular app attend at the time booked in the app.
• Payment and collection: under the embassy's 28 November 2023 notice, once an app order shows "ready for collection", applicants pay and collect at the consular hall on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 1:30–3:00 p.m.
• Phone enquiries: the visa office line (0927-5029218, English and Tagalog) is answered on working days 9:00–11:00 a.m. and 2:00–4:00 p.m., per the Contact Information page.
• Consular protection line: listed as 24 hours.

Holiday closures follow both countries' calendars. The embassy's 15 September 2026 notice says consular services will be closed on 25 September (Friday) for the Mid-Autumn Festival and from 1 to 7 October (Thursday to Wednesday) for Chinese National Day. The Cebu consulate-general announced the same dates. As of 18 September 2026, the Davao and Laoag consulates had not posted their arrangements, so call before travelling in that period.

Philippine holidays close the counters too. In December 2025, both the Cebu and Davao consulates suspended document services on 24–25 December, 30–31 December and 1–2 January, citing local holidays (Cebu notice, Davao notice). Weather can intervene as well: the Cebu consulate-general closed its document services for a day in November 2025 because of a typhoon.

Three habits save wasted trips:

1. Check the embassy's notices page on the morning you go;
2. Arrive well before 11:00 a.m., because the published filing window closes then;
3. If you are collecting a passport, keep a Monday, Wednesday or Friday afternoon free; collection is not offered at other times.

The consulates keep their own hours, which differ from the embassy's; they are listed in the consulates section below. For a foreign national, the hours that matter most are usually the visa service center's, covered in the visa section.

Phone numbers and email addresses, by purpose

For emergencies involving Chinese nationals, call the 24-hour consular protection line, 0063-2-82311033; for visa and document questions, use the enquiry mobiles or email, not the emergency line.

The numbers below come from the embassy's Contact Information page and the Chinese-language consular contact page:

• Consular assistance and protection (24 hours): 0063-2-82311033; email [email protected] for non-urgent matters.
• Visa office (foreign nationals): 0927-5029218 (English and Tagalog); email [email protected].
• Documents for Chinese nationals (passports, travel documents, Hong Kong entry permits, notarial services): 0927-5029196 (Mandarin and Hokkien); email [email protected].
• Visa Application Service Center: [email protected].
• Commercial Section: 0063-2-88184553, [email protected]. Cultural Section: 0063-2-88195992.
• Overseas Chinese affairs: 0063-2-85110863.

Both enquiry mobiles are answered on working days, 9:00–11:00 a.m. and 2:00–4:00 p.m.; outside those hours, no answer is normal. The prefix 0063 is the Philippine country code, used when dialling from abroad.

The emergency line changed briefly this year. On 23 July 2026 the embassy announced a temporary hotline because of a fault on the main number; on 13 August it restored 0063-2-82311033 and retired the temporary number. If you saved the July number, delete it.

In an emergency in the Philippines, the embassy's June 2026 advisory lists these numbers:

1. 911 for Philippine police and emergency services, and 143 for the Philippine Red Cross;
2. the consular protection line for your area: embassy 0063-2-82311033, Cebu 0063-32-3430008, Davao 0063-9271304354, Laoag 0063-9178051226;
3. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs global consular hotline, 0086-10-12308 or 0086-10-65612308, around the clock.

When you call, give the person's name, passport number, city and exact location first, then what happened; it lets the duty officer route the case to the right mission quickly. If a Chinese national has been taken into custody by the Bureau of Immigration, the steps family members can take are in what to do if someone is detained by the BI; for a lost or stolen passport, start with the lost-passport sequence for Chinese nationals.

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Cebu, Davao and Laoag: consulate addresses, hours and districts

China has three consular posts outside Manila: a consulate-general in Cebu for the Visayas, a consulate-general in Davao for Mindanao, and a consulate in Laoag for 15 provinces of northern Luzon. Metro Manila is outside all three districts and is served by the embassy.

Consulate-General in Cebu (mission information page)

• Address: 25th Floor, Mandarin Plaza Hotel, Archbishop Reyes Avenue Corner Escario Street, Cebu City
• Public hours: working days 9:00–11:00 a.m., holidays excepted
• Passport and document enquiries: 0063-32-5051035, 9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon and 1:00–5:30 p.m. (June 2024 notice); [email protected]
• Consular protection: 0063-32-3430008 (notice)
• District: the central Visayas islands. Its district page profiles 12 provinces: Cebu, Bohol, Iloilo, Negros Oriental, Negros Occidental, Siquijor, Samar, Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Southern Leyte and Biliran. If your Visayas province is not on that list, Aklan for example, confirm with the consulate before filing.

Consulate-General in Davao (consular contact page, December 2023)

• Address: Acacia Street, Juna Subdivision, Matina, Davao City
• Document hours: working days 9:00–11:00 a.m. and 2:00–4:00 p.m., holidays excepted
• Document enquiries: 0063-82-2987471 (Mandarin, English, Tagalog); [email protected]
• Consular protection: 0063-927-130-4354
• District: Mindanao and nearby islands, covering Regions IX to XIII and BARMM (district overview).

Consulate in Laoag (contact page, May 2025)

• Address: No.216 National Highway, Brgy 1, San Francisco, San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte 2901
• Telephone: 0063-77-670 6355, answered on working days 9:00–11:30 a.m. and 2:00–4:30 p.m.; [email protected]
• Consular protection: 0063-9178051226
• Filing and collection: the consulate's address and hours page lists filing Tuesday to Thursday 9:00–11:30 a.m. and collection Tuesday to Thursday 2:00–4:30 p.m. That page is older, so phone to confirm.
• District: Region I, Region II and the Cordillera Administrative Region, 15 provinces in all (district overview).

One inconsistency to be aware of: the embassy's contact page lists 0063-82-2989942 as Davao's "Tel/Fax", while Davao's own page marks that number as its fax and gives 0063-82-2987471 for document enquiries. This guide follows each consulate's own page. Passport procedures are broadly the same at every post; see Chinese passport renewal in the Philippines.

Applying for a Chinese visa in the Philippines: the service center, not the embassy window

Foreign nationals with ordinary passports cannot file a Chinese visa application at the embassy: since 29 January 2024, applications go through the Chinese Visa Application Service Center in Makati.

The embassy's notice of 19 January 2024 sets out the arrangement:

• Where: 6th Floor, Noble Square, 6762 Ayala Avenue, Makati City; email [email protected].
• When: Monday to Friday, with applications accepted 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (urgent applications until 11:30 a.m.) and collection 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., as stated in that notice. Hours may have changed since, so check the center's current schedule.
• What the center does: it only receives applications. Consular officers decide whether to issue a visa and set its validity, duration of stay and number of entries, and may ask for more documents or an interview.
• Service fee: the center charges a service fee on top of the government visa fee; the embassy directs applicants to the center for current rates.
• No other agents: the embassy states that it has not authorised any other organisation or individual to accept Chinese visa applications.
• Diplomatic and official passports: still filed at the embassy's consular hall on the 2nd floor of the World Center.

Since 13 October 2025, applicants can fill in the form and upload documents online through the center's website (embassy notice). Questions about a pending application go to [email protected] or 0927-5029218 during the hours above.

Documents for use in China. Since 7 November 2023, the Apostille Convention has applied between China and the Philippines, so Philippine public documents within its scope need only a Philippine apostille for use in mainland China, with no consular legalisation by the Chinese embassy (embassy explanation). The steps are in using Philippine documents in China.

Filipino spouses and children of Chinese nationals, and others visiting family in China, will find the visa categories and document lists in getting a Chinese visa from the Philippines.

Finally, the Chinese embassy has no role in Philippine immigration matters. Tourist visa extensions, exit clearance and ACR I-Cards are handled by the Bureau of Immigration, and how long a visitor may stay is explained in Philippine visa validity versus length of stay.

Services for Chinese nationals: the China Consular app, passports and notarial work

Chinese nationals start passport, travel-document and notarial applications in the China Consular app, then attend in person at the time the app offers; walk-in filing is the exception, not the rule.

From the embassy's app introduction and passport notice:

1. Register and verify: accounts can be opened with a mainland Chinese mobile number or an email address; the 2023 notice says Philippine mobile numbers were not yet supported. Only accounts that pass real-name verification (mainland ID card or mainland passport) can file, and a verified account may file for others. Anyone unable to verify should contact the embassy about an in-person application.
2. Submit for pre-review: choose the mission, complete the form and upload the photo and documents. Orders cannot be edited after submission, and cancelling three orders within 30 days blocks new orders for 30 days.
3. Book and attend: once the order shows "awaiting appointment", book a slot and bring the printed order page, the old passport or travel document, two printed photos matching the upload, and the originals of uploaded documents. Applicants under 16 come with the guardian who signed the consent form. The counter issues a pink collection slip.
4. Pay and collect: when the order shows "ready for collection", bring the pink slip during collection hours; the old document is cancelled and returned. Documents not collected within a year of the collection date are periodically disposed of.
5. Urgent cases: for funerals or medical emergencies, file in the app, then email the document enquiry address with the order number, name, date of birth, passport number, contact details and reason.

Notarial services are for Chinese nationals living, working or studying in the Philippines long term. Since 31 October 2025 they also require app pre-review and booking (notice), and since 11 September 2017 the embassy no longer notarises documents disposing of real estate or other major property (notarial guide). Powers of attorney for relatives in China are covered in signing a power of attorney from the Philippines.

The consulates add their own commitments: Davao offers a "green channel" for humanitarian emergencies with no appointment needed after verification (notice), and Laoag applies a "one visit, one complete list of missing items" rule (notice). If you need an emergency document to get home, see the Chinese travel document.

If you would like someone to check your documents against the mission's requirements, or to line up the Philippine immigration steps that follow a passport change, Yixing's settling-in assistance can help. Yixing is a private consultancy with no affiliation to the Chinese missions or any Philippine government agency, and outcomes rest with the issuing authority; addresses, numbers and hours follow each mission's current announcements.

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