PHL Consular Outreach Team Serves More Than 1,600 Filipinos in the Caribbean
The Philippine Embassy Consular Outreach Team in action in the Cayman Islands, the second stop of the three-leg visit to the Caribbean territories held from February 24 to March 05.
09 March 2018 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Philippine Embassy conducted a three-leg visit to the Caribbean territories of Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands and the Bahamas from February 24 to March 05 to deliver passport and other consular services to kababayans in the areas.
A total of 1,676 consular services were rendered during the consular outreach mission. Over 92 percent of this total was for passport-related services. In addition, 1,085 eligible voters were registered for overseas absentee voting.
There are an estimated 8,000 Filipinos in these islands, mostly employed in the medical, pharmaceutical, finance, and hospitality industries, as well in the household of locals, and expatriates.
Consul Katrina Isabelle Borja-Martin said that Dr. John Freeman, Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands, and Mr. Clarence Alexander Russell II, Director of Bahamas Immigration, expressed their high regard for the positive contributions of the Filipino community in their respective societies. END
Consul Katrina Isabelle Borja-Martin (2nd from left) meets with Mr. Clarence Alexander Russell II, Director of Bahamas Immigration (3rd from left), together with two leaders of the Filipino community in the Bahamas.
Consul Katrina Isabelle Borja-Martin administers the Oath of Allegiance to former Filipinos seeking to re-acquire their Filipino citizenship under Republic Act 9225 during the three-leg visit to the Caribbean territories.
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