PH Embassy Serves Over 600 Filipinos in Consular Mission in Melbourne

The Philippine Embassy in Canberra deployed a mobile consular mission in Melbourne, Victoria on 14-18 January 2019 to process passport applications. (Photo credit: Gregorio Images, Philtimes.com.au)

MELBOURNE 29 January 2019 – As part of its mandate to bring consular services to Filipinos under its jurisdiction, the Philippine Embassy in Canberra completed a five-day mobile consular mission in Melbourne, Victoria on 14-18 January 2019.

The mobile consular team processed 586 passport applications, and administered the oath of allegiance of 68 Filipinos who reacquired their Filipino citizenship through the Citizenship Retention and Reacquisition Act of 2003.

The Embassy team was led by First Secretary and Consul Corina Reyes, accompanied consular assistants Albert Francia and Gloria Celis. Defense Attaché to Australia Colonel Dennis Gammad provided logistical support to the mission. The Embassy worked with the Philippine Honorary Consulate in Melbourne led by Consul Felix Pintado to ensure an organized and productive consular mission.

The Embassy estimates that around 70,000 Filipinos live in the state of Victoria. END

For more information, visit www.canberrape.dfa.gov.ph/ www.philembassy.org.au or https://www.facebook.com/PHinAustralia/.

The mobile consular mission deployed by the Philippine Embassy in Canberra processed 586 passport applications. (Photo credit: Gregorio Images, Philtimes.com.au)

A total of 68 Filipinos took their oath of allegiance under the Citizenship Retention and Reacquisition Act of 2003. (Photo credit: Gregorio Images, Philtimes.com.au)