PH Embassy in Wellington Conducts Consular Services Outreach in Dunedin, New Zealand
Passport applicants avail themselves of the services provided by the mobile consular team of the Philippine Embassy in Wellington during its outreach mission in Dunedin, New Zealand on 14-16 September 2018. (Wellington PE photo)
WELLINGTON 01 October 2018 – The Philippine Embassy in Wellington rendered another consular outreach mission in the South Island for 2018 held at the Conference Room of the Alhambra Oaks Motor Lodge in Dunedin on 14-16 September 2018.
The mission processed a total of 842 consular transactions, comprising passport application/renewal, civil registration, notarial services, fingerprinting for National Bureau of Investigation clearance certificates, and Philippine citizenship retention/re-acquisition application and administering of oath of allegiance. The mission also registered a total of 308 overseas voters.
The Filipino Community in Dunedin and from the neighboring areas including Queenstown, Invercargill, Oamaru, Timaru, Ashburton, Christchurch, Gore, Winton, and Lumsden, expressed their appreciation of this undertaking as it provided them access to Embassy’s services without need to travel to Wellington, a 13-hour trip away by car.
The outreach was also an opportunity for the Embassy to strengthen its linkages with the Filipino community and to respond to various consular and related inquiries.
To address the need for more information on legal issues, a seminar on legal matters for Filipinos in New Zealand was also held alongside the outreach.
On 15 September 2018, Director of GarciaLaw NZ Ltd and Philippine Honorary Consul General Emeritus to Auckland Atty. Paulo Garcia provided the participants of the seminar with relevant information on New Zealand laws, including trusts and wills, enduring powers of attorney, property, relationships and divorce, immigration law changes and other issues that impact on the lives of Filipino students, workers and migrants. The seminar was held at the Otago University Students' Association Clubs and Societies Centre.
Ambassador to New Zealand Jesus S. Domingo, represented by Third Secretary and Vice Consul Glenn Joseph Obach and the Embassy mobile consular team, reiterated deep appreciation to the Dunedin Philippine Club Incorporated, led by its president Erna Smith, for the warm hospitality, generous support and exemplary cooperation and assistance that contributed to the success of the consular mission and the legal seminar in Dunedin.
Details of succeeding mobile consular missions are posted on the 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 in Wellington consular services outreach mission in Dunedin, New Zealand on 14-16 September 2018. (Wellington PE photo)
Director of GarciaLaw NZ Ltd and Philippine Honorary Consul General Emeritus (Auckland, New Zealand) Atty. Paulo Garcia speaks at the “Seminar on Legal Matters for Filipinos in New Zealand,” held alongside the consular outreach in Dunedin at the Otago University Students' Association Clubs and Societies Centre on 15 September 2018. (Dunedin Philippine Club Incorporated photo)
Participants of the “Seminar on Legal Matters for Filipinos in New Zealand,” held alongside the consular outreach in Dunedin on 15 September 2018, listen to important information on New Zealand laws including wills, enduring powers of attorney, immigration law changes, among others, that significantly impact the lives of Filipino students, workers and migrants in New Zealand. (Dunedin Philippine Club Incorporated photo)
For more information, visit www.wellingtonpe.dfa.gov.ph / www.philembassy.org.nz or https://www.facebook.com/PHLinNZ/.