PH Embassy in Rome Renders Consular Services to Filipinos in Italy

The Philippine Embassy in Rome opens a dedicated lane to fast track new passport applications of clients from the southern city of Bari, during its special Sunday consular services at the chancery on 24 June 2018. (Rome PE photo)

ROME 27 June 2018 – The Philippine Embassy in Rome, Italy held its second special consular services for 2018 at the Chancery on 24 June 2018, completing more than 400 service transactions in a span of seven straight hours.

The Embassy opened its consular section as early seven o’clock in the morning of 24 June to welcome two busloads of applicants from the city of Bari in Puglia province in southern Italy.

Other applicants came from as far as Florence and Perugia from the central regions of Tuscana and Umbria.

Topping the list of services administered and completed are new passport applications, 140; notarial services, 65; civil registration, 5; OWWA services including membership applications, 94; voter registration, 45; and SSS services, 45.

There were 36 individuals who took their oath as Filipino citizens under the “Citizenship Retention and Re-acquisition Act of 2003 (Republic Act No. 9225). END

Philippine Embassy in Rome offered overseas voter registration for its special consular services. (Rome PE photo)

Embassy staff Natividad Nethercott evaluates the passport renewal applications of clients who availed themselves of the special consular services organized by the Philippine Embassy in Rome on 24 June 2018. (Rome PE photo)

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