Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario has appealed to more than a thousand undocumented Filipinos camping outside the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah to cooperate by moving out of their tents and transferring to the facilities prepared for them by Philippine officials there.
There is no need for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to flock to the “tent city” outside the Philippine consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, amid the approaching crackdown against migrant laborers without work permits, Vice President Jejomar Binay said on Friday.
Representative of Astig and Alagad in Saudi Arabia donated food and baby diapers to stranded Filipino workers in Jeddah recently. Don’t be turned off by their tough-sounding gang-like names. Astig is the name of Batch 27 of a Computer Literacy Program, while Alagad refers to members of Batch 28. The overseas Pinoys had become close [...]
Being an Overseas Filipino worker (OFW) connotes legality with corresponding responsibilities. The problem is when an OFW violates the basic requirement of his contract—the tenure—and becomes an “overstaying” Filipino worker (the other version of OFW). Unfortunately, some OFWs decide to violate the law and stay on illegally. Are they willing to face the consequences? Conrado [...]
Twenty-seven overstaying Filipinos in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia arrived Wednesday in Manila, the Department of Foreign Affairs.
MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) A fresh batch of 85 overseas Filipino workers and their children were scheduled to fly in late Thursday night from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Manila International Airport Authority said. The repatriated Filipinos were set to arrive at around 11:10 p.m. Thursday from Jeddah via Etihad Airlines flight EY 428, according to an advisory [...]
