PHL Embassy Repatriates 101 Distressed OFs via PAL Inaugural Flight

Ambassador Constancio Vingno, Jr., together with Madame Yoko Ramos-Vingno and the Embassy’s ATN Team, meet with the wards a day prior to their endorsement to the UAE Immigration and flight to the Philippines.  Ambassador and Madame Vingno also distributed to the wards the luggage donated by Filipino community groups in Abu Dhabi.

06 November 2017 ABU DHABI — The Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi repatriated one hundred one (101) distressed overseas Filipinos on October 31, the biggest batch since “mass repatriation” was conducted on May of this year. 

The repatriates boarded the inaugural Philippine Airlines flight as it resumed its operations in Abu Dhabi. Philippine Ambassador to Abu Dhabi Constancio R. Vingno, Jr., Philippine Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will join the repatriates in their flight back to Manila.

The Embassy has repatriated over 700 Filipino nationals, who are mostly human trafficking and illegal recruitment victims, this year. As the MOU on Labour Cooperation between the Philippines and the UAE, as well as the Law on Domestic Work were signed in September this year, the Embassy hopes that these incidents will be minimized with their full implementation. END

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The Embassy’s ATN Team supervises the repatriation process.

The repatriates were brought to the Immigration Facility for processing, and to the airport for their flight back to Manila on the same day.