24 July 2013 - The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco dispatched a seven-person team to the “Biggest Little City in the World”, Reno, Nevada, from July 19 to 20, to offer consular services to kababayans there under the Consulate’s annual Consulate-on-Wheels/Wings (COW) Program. 

The team, headed by Consul Reichel Quiñones, extended consular services to over 300 people over the two-day outreach, processing 161 passport applications, 93 notarial documents and civil registry reports, and 61 applications for reacquisition of Philippine citizenship.

Kababayans from Reno expressed their appreciation for the COW program, which significantly reduced the processing time and cost for availing themselves of consular services from the main consular office in San Francisco. 

The consular team commended the Filipino American Association of Nevada (FAAN), which has served as the local coordinator for the annual consular outreach to Reno for the past three years. “The hard work you put into coordinating this outreach, and the support you extended our team, gave us the opportunity to serve our kababayans in Reno and the surrounding areas,” Consul Quiñones said. “On behalf of the Consul General Paynor, and the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco, we would like to express our sincere appreciation and our hope that we can continue to work together to help our kababayans.”

The Philippine Consulate in San Francisco, through its COW Program, conducts regular annual outreaches to various locations in the ten states under its jurisdiction: Alaska, Northern California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Northern Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

For more information on upcoming Consulate-on-Wheels outreaches, or to search for a COW coming to your area, visit http://www.philippinessanfrancisco.org/philippines-sf/consular-outreach-sf/ or follow the Consulate’s Facebook page on http://www.facebook.com/PCGSF. END