OFW – Overseas Filipino News

The Department of Foreign Affairs has issued the following tips to facilitate applications for passports:

Following criticism of supposed delays in the processing of electronic passports, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said its passport operations are now going “smoothly” after it reopened its extension office in Mandaluyong City.

Apparently, investing millions of pesos on modernizing the country’s passport service is not enough to rid it of illegal transactions.

Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) stand to benefit from the Department of Foreign Affairs’ reopening of its passport extension office at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).

THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS – OFFICE OF CONSULAR AFFAIRS WILL BE CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC ON 01 JUNE 2010, TUESDAY, IN OBSERVANCE OF THE DFA DAY CELEBRATION. PLEASE BE ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING ARRANGEMENTS TO BE IMPLEMENTED:

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has justified the $10 increase in the application fee for the new electronic passport (ePassport), saying it has special features that make it secure and compliant with international standards.

Renew your passports as early as six months before expiry, in light of increased passport applications this summer.

At least 19 Filipino seafarers who were aboard a cargo vessel that sank off Spain are safe, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday.

Starting Monday, March 15, the Department of Foreign Affairs will issue ePassports in 10 of its 18 regional consular offices (RCO).

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) have started finalizing preparations for some 589,830 overseas Filipino workers to cast their votes in this year’s automated elections, as absentee voting starts April 10.