DEADLINE FOR REACTIVATION OF OVERSEAS VOTING RECORDS IS EXTENDED TO 09 DECEMBER 2015

The Department of Foreign Affairs, Overseas Voting Secretariat (DFA-OVS) announced on October 12 that COMELEC has extended the period of filing for Application for Reactivation from 31 October 2015 to 09 December 2015.

Licensed recruitment agencies required to have Facebook accounts

POEA: Licensed recruitment agencies deploying domestic workers required to have Facebook accounts

Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac has issued Memorandum Circular No. 1, series of 2015, requiring recruitment agencies to have Facebook accounts, for the following purposes: 

(1) Communication platform for deployed domestic workers; 
(2) Dispute prevention; 
(3) Endorsement of complaints; and 
(4) Submission of reports to the POEA. 

Balikbayan Box Tracker

Wondering when your Balikbayan Box be delivered to you? Is your Cargo Forwarder giving you the run-around?

The Bureau of Customs has launched a Balikbayan Box Tracker, a simple and hassle-free way of tracking your boxes from abroad online.

OEC Processing - Go online, don’t fall in line

The POEA advised Balik-Manggagawa or vacationing Overseas Filipino Workers to use its online system to get an Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) or exit clearance instead of lining up at the POEA office and its processing centers. 

OFWs may lose right to vote

A petition from change.org posted word for word, let's push this petition!

"We see them at the airport every hour, every day. Men and women saying goodbye to weeping families.Each of the 100 million Filipinos has kin or friends who work and live abroad. Many of them work under harsh conditions. We call our Overseas Filipinos Bagong Bayani (New Heroes). They not only support entire clans; they prop up the national economy.

OFWs fought hard for 16 years to exercise their basic right to vote. In 2003, the Overseas Absentee Voting Act was passed in 2003. Data shows that 2.5 percent of the 10 to 12 million Filipinos abroad have since then voted in elections.

These gains are now in peril, warns a petition on Change.org that seeks the return of P89.6-million budget needed in 2015 for the proper implementation of overseas voting.