DFA Releases Schedule of Mobile Passport Services

As the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) strives to make the passport application system faster and easier for all, they have released the schedule of their passport mobile services for this month until November of this year. Through this mobile passport service program, the DFA goes to different local government units all over the country to make it possible for people who for some reason find it difficult to go to the DFA main office to obtain a passport.

So check out the schedule below to see if the DFA mobile passport service would be near your area in the coming days. Catch them in your local municipality and take advantage of the opportunity to conveniently get a passport.

Things You Should Know About The Mobile Services

• The Mobile Passport Services of the DFA is in accordance with the Philippine Passport Act of 1996 and its implementing rules and regulations, other relevant Department Orders, Circulars and Memoranda.
• Those who wish to participate in the Mobile Passport Services should inform the Passport Coordinator assigned by the Local Government Unit (LGU) in advance. They should fill up and submit the application form to the designated LGU Passport Coordinator at least two weeks in advance of the scheduled date of the mobile passport service.
• The time and date when the passport application can be filed will be provided by the LGU Passport Coordinator (the schedule of the Mobile passport Service).
• All applicants are required to personally appear except those who are 8 years old and below and senior citizens who are 65 years old and above.
• The Mobile Passport Service will not accept applications for the replacement of lost valid passports but will entertain applications for lost expired passports.
• The Mobile passport fee is same with the Expedite Rate.

2010 Schedule of Mobile Passport Services

Date	LGU/Agency
24-Jul 2010	Dinalupihan, Bataan
31-Jul 2010	Philippine National Police, Camp Crame
31-Jul 2010	Bataan Provincial Capitol, Balanga City
7-Aug 2010	ABS-CBN, Quezon City
14-Aug 2010	Municipality of Pateros,Metro Manila
14-Aug 2010	Nueva Ecija Provincial Capitol, Cabanatuan City
21-Aug 2010	Guimba, Nueva Ecija
21-Aug 2010	Santa Ana, Pampanga
28-Aug 2010	Gen. Tinio, Nueva Ecija
28-Aug 2010	Balanga City
4-Sep 2010	Baler, Aurora (Tentative)
4-Sep 2010	Tarlac Provincial Capitol, Tarlac City
11-Sep 2010	Bulacan Provincial Capitol, Malolos City
11-Sep 2010	Baliwag, Bulacan
18-Sep 2010	Carmona, Cavite
25-Sep 2010	San Rafael, Bulacan
25-Sep 2010	Valenzuela City
2-Oct 2010	Malabon City
2-Oct 2010	Bataan Provincial Capitol, Balanga City
13-Nov 2010	Makati City

The schedules may change anytime so always confirm it with your local government unit or the DFA. For more details you can call 834-4000 local numbers: 2406 - 2410 or 836-7750.

POEA Calls on Korean Language Test Passers: Submit Your Requirements

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) recently released an advisory for successful examinees of the 6^thEmployment Permit System-Korean Language Test (EPS-KLT) who until now have not submitted the required documents that will help them land a job in Korea.

According to POEA, two months after conducting the 6^th EPS-KLT exam, not all of the 2,775 applicants who passed the test are in the Roster of Jobseekers for Korea’s Employment Permit System- a list where potential Korean employers can choose candidates for employment.

The POEA hopes that concerned EPS-KLT passers will submit documentary requirements as soon as possible. Some of the reasons why some applicants are not yet included in the Roster of Jobseekers are problems in medical condition and failure to submit valid passports.

Because of this, the POEA asked the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Consular Office to allow the remaining EPS-KLT passers to obtain their passports in the POEA Satellite office. According to POEA, concerned applicants should go to the Manpower Registry Division at the POEA ground floor lobby for appropriate endorsement to the DFA passport unit.

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Filipina maid inherits millions from Singaporean employer

By Agence France Presse

A devoted Filipina maid inherited six million Singapore dollars (more than $4 million) from her late employer after more than 20 years of service, a newspaper report said Wednesday.

“I am the luckiest maid in Singapore, with or without the money,” the 47-year-old single woman — identified only by the pseudonym “Christine” — told the Straits Times in an interview.

The maid refused to be named in public for fear of possible threats to her life in the impoverished Philippines, where wealthy people have been kidnapped for ransom and some killed by their abductors.

The windfall, including cash and a luxury apartment near the Orchard Road shopping belt, came from the estate of her employer Quek Kai Miew, a medical doctor and philanthropist who died last year at 66.

The maid had also taken care of the doctor’s late mother, and was told that she would be a beneficiary of her employer’s will when it was drawn up in 2008.

“There were no secrets between us. I was not surprised at all when she told me how much I was going to get,” the maid recalled.

“Christine” was devastated when Quek died a year ago, as the two were inseparable, and temporarily moved in with the doctor’s nephew for solace.

“It was heartbreaking for me as I saw more years with Doctor Quek than with my own mother. I would break down every time I thought about her. I could not be by myself,” she said.

“I was always beside her. Wherever she went, I was with her.”

The maid, who is now applying for permanent residency in Singapore, said her newfound wealth had not changed her lifestyle.

“I do not really think much about the money I got. I just live my life as I did before, and not as a rich person,” the maid, dressed simply in a blouse and slacks with short-cropped hair, was quoted as saying.

“I am still who I was before. I cannot behave differently because I have money now. Even my Filipino maid friends here still treat me the same.”

Nearly 200,000 foreign maids, mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia, work in affluent Singapore, which has a population of five million.

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