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Saturday, September 29

Philippine Green Passport Renewal Reminder

Attention once again to all Filipino citizens that still hold Philippine green passports to renew . It is earlier announced by Philippine Vice Consul Sheila Monedero that Philippine Embassy will no longer renew and extend green passports on October 01, 2012. I remind green passport holders that you only have until...

Sunday, August 26

Philippine Embassy in Kuwait Passport Renewal Advisory

“Starting Oct 1, 2012, the Embassy will no longer extend green passports per DFA Circular-516-OUA-2012 to comply with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards requiring all non-machine readable passports to be out of circulation by year 2015,” announced on Saturday Philippine Vice...

Saturday, August 4

5 Things New-OFW-in-Kuwait Should Know

Welcome to Kuwait!Oh! I can’t imagine how fast the days go by. Six years later I was the one who was greeted with the very same word I write above. I was at the airport at that time when our camp boss told me those words. “Welcome to Kuwait!”Now, let me share to you ten important things you should know about Kuwait. These...

Wednesday, April 25

POEA warns OFWs against use of backdoor exit

[caption id="attachment_503" align="aligncenter" width="133"] Photo via Google Images[/caption]The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration warns Filipino workers, especially women, against accepting offers of employment that would require them to leave illegally using exit points in the southern parts of the country.Administrator...

Thursday, March 22

Philippine Embassy Kuwait: Temporarily unable to issue OEC's

[ The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait according to a source is temporarily unable to issue OEC (Balik Mangagawa) to OFW's working in Kuwait. The embassy run out of OEC forms that they must get from Philippines. This situation was brought upon by the strikes that were going on in Kuwait that started...