PHL Consulate General Holds Special Consular Outreach in Edmonton

Consular assistants Norberto de la Rea and Earl Edgardo Alonzo operate the passport data-capturing machines as passport renewal applicants await their turn at the special consular outreach held in Edmonton from April 28 to 30 2017.  Nearly 300 Filipinos availed of consular services during the outreach.

04 May 2017 EDMONTON, CANADA — Consul General Julius D. Torres led a special outreach mission to Edmonton, Alberta from April 28 to 30, providing 329 passport and notarial services to Filipinos in the city and surrounding areas held at the Ramada Edmonton South.

The Consulate team was also able to register ­­­­68 overseas voters at the special outreach.

Edmonton, the capital of Alberta and the province’s second-largest city, is the gateway to Alberta’s oilsands region in the north.  Most of the Filipinos there were historically employed as skilled workers by energy companies that operate in the area, although the current economic downturn has led to retrenchments.  Those formerly employed in the energy sector have either remained unemployed and are searching for work or have begun working in other fields.  Many other Filipinos are employed in the services sector as health care workers, restaurant staff and hotel workers. END