23 November 2016 – Philippine Consul General to Calgary Julius D. Torres led a Consulate team on an outreach mission to Edmonton, Alberta providing passport and notarial services to nearly 600 Filipinos in the city and surrounding areas from November 11 to 13.

The outreach, held at the Ramada Edmonton South, was organized in cooperation with the Duterte Volunteers of Edmonton headed by Mr. Benjamin Lindo.  During the three-day outreach, the Consulate General was able to process five hundred forty-one (541) passport renewals, forty-nine (49) notarial services, and eight applications for dual citizenship.  An additional twenty-nine (29) persons who had submitted their dual citizenship applications took the Oath of Allegiance during the outreach mission.

The Consulate team was also joined by Ms. Violeta Buenaventura, Officer-in-Charge of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Vancouver, who offered POLO and OWWA services to Filipino workers who attended the outreach.

Edmonton, the capital of Alberta and the province’s second-largest city, is the gateway to Alberta’s oil sands region in the north.  Most of the Filipinos there were historically employed as skilled workers by energy companies that operate in the area.  Many other Filipinos are employed in the services sector as health care workers, restaurant staff and hotel workers.  END