How to get a bank certificate for FREE

Bank statements and bank certificates are common requirements when applying for any type of visa.

Requesting for these documents is easy, what’s annoying is that you have to pay for these. And they don’t come cheap!

A bank certificate costs 200php for one copy and a bank statement costs 50php per page.

Now, if you need a bank certificate but don’t want to pay for it (like me), what you can do is go to the branch where you opened your account and politely ask for fees to be waived. The business manager of the branch will be the one to decide on this. I was told that if you are a preferred client, fees are automatically waived and to be a preferred client, you need to have a minimum 750,000php in your account.

If you don’t have that much money in your account yet, you can still ask if the fees can be waived. There’s really no harm in asking.