When did you apply? I applied six days ago today through the DC office and my status currently says pending payment which I don’t understand since I paid at the time that I submitted the visa request. I have a messaged them, but received no response so I will give them until Friday and then I will call them. Hopefully I can get some sort of answer.
Yeah that’s what I was going to tell him is that the airline might very well ask for it and if you don’t have it you can’t get on your airplane. In all of my trips to the Philippines they never asked for it at the manila airport but I always had a return flight. I wouldn’t take that chance.