PHL Embassy in Wellington Conducts Consular Services Outreach in Invercargill, New Zealand
Passport applicants avail of the services provided by the mobile consular team of the Philippine Embassy in Wellington during its outreach mission in Invercargill, New Zealand on March 15 to 18.
26 March 2018 WELLINGTON – The Philippine Embassy in Wellington, New Zealand successfully rendered a four-day consular services outreach mission held at the Filipino Community Centre, Invercargill on March 15 to 18. The outreach processed a total of 427 consular transactions comprising passport renewals/applications, civil registration (reports of births and marriages), notarial services, fingerprinting for National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) forms, and Philippine citizenship retention/re-acquisition application and oath-taking. The mission gathered a combined total of 306 overseas voting (OV) and application for change of address registrants.
The Filipino community members in Invercargill, Gore, Winton, Lumsden, Balclutha, Queenstown, Wanaka, Oamaru, Timaru, Dunedin, Ashburton, Christchurch, and other areas in the South Island expressed their appreciation of this undertaking as it provided them access to the Philippine Embassy’s services without travelling farther to Wellington up in the North Island. The outreach was also an opportunity for the Embassy to strengthen its network with the Filipino community in the region and respond to several consular inquiries presented by Filipino applicants.
His Excellency Jesus S. Domingo, Ambassador of the Philippines to New Zealand, through the Philippine Embassy mobile consular team, reiterated deep appreciation to the Southland Filipino Society Inc. (SFSI), led by SFSI Coordinator Dorothea Hawkins and SFSI Chairman Socrates Mallari, for its warm hospitality, generous support and exemplary cooperation that contributed to the very successful consular outreach mission in Invercargill.
Details of next mobile consular missions will be posted on the Philippine Embassy website (www.philembassy.org.nz) and on Facebook (Philippine Embassy - Wellington, New Zealand). END
Oath of Allegiance pursuant to Republic Act No. 9225 (Citizenship Retention and Re-acquisition Act of 2003) is administered at the Philippine Embassy consular services outreach mission in Invercargill, New Zealand on March 15 to 18.
Vice Consul Glenn Joseph Q. Obach speaks to members of the Filipino community at the culmination of its outreach mission in Invercargill, New Zealand on March 15 to 18.
For more information, visit www.wellingtonpe.dfa.gov.ph / www.philembassy.org.nz or https://www.facebook.com/PHLinNZ/.