The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced Friday that its passport offices in Metro Manila would be closed in observance of the following regular holidays and special non-working holidays in 2013:
The Department of Foreign Affars (DFA) on Friday announced that its passport offices would be closed on the following holidays:
The United States said Tuesday it will raise concerns with Beijing over a map printed in new Chinese passports that is causing “tension and anxiety” among claimant states in the disputed West Philippine Sea.
While parrying international criticism over questionable maps on its new electronic passport, China on Monday returned the favor and blasted the Philippines’ claim to the Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal off Zambales as a “misinterpretation” of international law stipulating territorial delineations based on exclusive economic zones.
India is stamping its map on visas given to Chinese visitors, an Indian official said Saturday, after China began issuing passports showing disputed territories as its own.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday announced that its passport division offices would be closed on October 26, November 1, and November 2.
Passport applicants need not wait in line for too long because by December, a call center accredited by the Department of Foreign Affairs will begin receiving requests for schedules to process their applications in consular offices in Metro Manila and the regions, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said here on Monday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is slowly moving its satellite offices into shopping malls to decongest its main office and make passport processing easier for the public.
Vice President Jejomar Binay on Friday said that he would ask for the cancellation of Globe Asiatique owner Delfin Lee’s passport if reports that he had left the country to evade arrest were confirmed.
Police and immigration agents arrested a suspected member of a syndicate that allegedly manufactures and sells fake Philippine passports to foreigners.
Filipino illegal migrants in Sabah have until the end of June to get passports through the mobile passport teams fielded there by the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill simplifying the passport documentation requirements and giving applicants an option to get a Philippine passport with five or 10 years validity.
