Good news! Philippine passports with 10-year validity will soon be available, and will be issued beginning January 2018.
The passport will still cost P950.00 — same price as current passports that are valid for 5 years.
Getting Philippine ePassport or Machine Readable Passports (MRP)
Maroon is the new green. For Philippine passports, that is.
The new maroon-colored passport is machine-readable, in compliance with the International Civil Aviation Organization’s requirement. Green passports, however, will still be valid until their validity date according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), but there might be a catch.
Read it here: Green passports OK until validity date but…