DFA Brings Home 9,981 Overseas Filipinos During First Five Days of December

PASAY CITY 6 December 2020 - The DFA intensifies its repatriation efforts in time for the Philippine holiday season. Between 1 and 5 December 2020, the DFA repatriated 9,981 overseas Filipinos - its highest 5-day total since July 2020. This brings the total number of repatriated overseas Filipinos to 287,301.

Returning overseas Filipinos from the Middle East continue to comprise the majority of DFA’s repatriates. The breakdown per region is as follows:

8,432 (84.48%) from the Middle East
843 (8.45%) from Asia and the Pacific; and
706 (7.07%) from Europe

Five medical repatriations from Bahrain, Japan, Oman, Russia, and Thailand were successfully facilitated by the Department and its foreign service posts. The DFA also assisted in the return of a Filipino family, including two minor children, from Iraq, 11 distressed students from Indonesia, and three undocumented OFWs/trafficking victims from Syria.

As the country enters the holiday season, the DFA stands ready to assist our distressed overseas Filipinos who wish to come home, wherever they are in the world. END