Applicants for passport renewal awaited they turn for biometrics capturing during the consular outreach in Palermo held from 04 to 05 May 2019.

ROME 06 May 2019 – Seven hundred sixty four (764) Filipinos in Palermo were served by the Philippine Embassy in Rome and the Philippine Honorary Consulate in Palermo headed by Consul Antonino Di Liberto, a.h. during a consular outreach mission in Palermo, from 04 to 05 May 2019.

Registered overseas voters in Palermo were also able to cast their votes for the on-going 2019 National Elections by submitting their sealed ballot envelopes to the Special Ballot Custody and Reception Group deputized by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC).

The consular team rendered a total of three hundred thirty-one (331) services, including three hundred nine (309) passport applications, four (4) civil registry applications, three (3) affidavits, and one (1) certification. Thirteen (13) individuals took their Oath of Allegiance for reacquisition of Philippine citizenship while one applied for the same.

The Embassy’s attached agencies were also present to render services. The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration attended to the needs of two hundred (205) clients while the Philippine Overseas Labor Office attended to forty-five clients (45) as part of its Balik-Manggagawa program. The Social Security System and Pag-IBIG assisted one hundred five (105) and seventy-eight (78) clients, respectively.

As part of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ assistance-to-nationals program, representatives from the Embassy and the Philippine Honorary Consulate in Palermo also visited a hospital where a Filipino was confined. The team facilitated his application for passport renewal by capturing his biometrics in his hospital room. END

A Filipino confined in a hospital was visited in his hospital room by the consular outreach team from the Philippine Embassy in Rome and Philippine Consulate General in Palermo to capture his biometrics and facilitate his application for passport renewal on 05 May 2019.

Thirteen (13) individuals took their Oath of Allegiance for reacquisition of Philippine citizenship before Third Secretary and Vice Consul Ma. Claribel Ochoa (leftmost) during the consular outreach in Palermo on 05 May 2019.

A senior citizen cast her vote for the 2019 National Elections by submitting her sealed ballot envelope to a member of the Special Ballot Custody and Reception Group (SBRCG) during the consular outreach mission in Palermo.