22 July 2024, ROME – The Philippine Embassy in Rome served more than 1,400 overseas Filipinos in Malta during its consular outreach mission held at the Catholic Institute in Floriana, Malta on 20-21 July 2024.

The consular outreach mission was conducted in partnership with the Philippine Consulate in Malta headed by Consul Roger Strickland,a.h.. The consular outreach team which flew from Rome and headed by Consul General Randy B. Arquiza, facilitated passport applications, civil registry services, notarization, NBI fingerprinting, consultations on assistance-to-nationals services, and overseas voting registration of Filipino nationals. Consul General Arquiza also administered the oath of allegiance of 2 overseas Filipinos who applied for the retention of their Philippine citizenship under Republic Act No. 9225 .

The Migrant Workers Office in Rome (MWO-Rome) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in Rome (OWWA-Rome) were also present and rendered a total of 1,255 transactions. MWO-Rome and OWWA also conducted hospital, company, and workers’ accommodation visits/inspections.

Malta is home to a rapidly growing community of overseas Filipinos, estimated to number about 12,000.

This is the second consular outreach mission conducted by the Embassy in Malta for this year, the last one being held in March 2024. The mission was made possible by the Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Affairs (OUMA) of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), which funded the conduct of the consular outreach mission. END