You Can Now Register to Vote in the 2028 Philippine Elections From Singapore. Here Is How

You can register as an overseas voter from Singapore for the 2028 Philippine elections at the Philippine Embassy until 30 September 2027. Bring your valid Philippine passport and have your biometrics taken.

Registration for the 2028 national elections reopened on 1 December 2025. You can pick the next president from here.

COMELEC wants at least three million overseas Filipinos on the rolls for 2028, with around two million of them new registrants.

The window is open until 30 September 2027

Registration runs from 1 December 2025 to 30 September 2027. After that, the books close and you wait until the cycle after 2028.

The registration desk fills up near every deadline, and one missed Sunday can turn into months of delay.

The same window lets you transfer records from another post, reactivate a lapsed registration, correct a misspelled name or update your address.

If you skipped two straight cycles, your record may be deactivated. Check it now to avoid a scramble in 2028.

Who can register

You qualify if you are a Filipino citizen, at least 18 years old on election day in 2028, and not disqualified by law.

Your pass type does not matter. A kasambahay holds the same right to register as an S Pass engineer.

Dual citizens count too. If you took Singapore citizenship but kept your Philippine one through reacquisition, you stay eligible. So do students, dependants on a long-term pass and work permit holders, as long as you expect to be outside the Philippines during the voting period.

How to register from Singapore

1. Check the Philippine Embassy website for voter registration hours. The voter desk is not always the same queue as passport renewal.
2. Go to the Embassy in person with your valid Philippine passport.
3. Have your biometrics captured: the photo and fingerprints that lock your record to you.

The desk takes minutes. The line is the longest part of your morning.

Confirm the schedule at the source, not a group chat, the same way you would verify any official rule before acting on it.

What your vote decides

Overseas Filipinos vote for president, vice president, senators and party-list representatives. You do not vote for local mayors or governors from abroad.

The officials you help choose set remittance taxes, the cost of an OWWA membership and the strength of the agencies that help workers in trouble abroad.

In the 2025 midterms, overseas Filipinos voted online for the first time. COMELEC plans to keep internet voting for 2028, so once you register, you vote from your phone during the voting period.

Your move this week

Open the Philippine Embassy website, find the overseas voting page and note the registration hours. Then book the Sunday you will go, well before September 2027.

Ang boto mo, boses mo, mga ka-FIS. Kahit malayo sa bayan, may say ka pa rin sa kinabukasan nito.