PH Embassy in Rome Serves Filipinos in Reggio Calabria
The Philippine Embassy in Rome conducts a consular outreach on 02-03 March 2019 in the historic Palazzo Alvaro, the seat of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Italy, and one of its most prestigious buildings. The consular team renders passport, civil registry, and dual citizenship services, while the Philippine Honorary Consulate in Reggio Calabria provides notarial services. Partner agencies such as the Philippine Overseas Labor Office, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, Social Security System, and Pag-IBIG FUND also offer their respective services. (Rome PE photo)
ROME 11 March 2019 – As part of its mandate to bring consular services closer to Filipinos under its jurisdiction, the Philippine Embassy in Rome held a consular outreach in Reggio Calabria City on 02-03 March 2019.
The consular outreach was in cooperation with the Philippine Honorary Consulate in Reggio Calabria, led by Honorary Consul Francesco Mortelliti, and the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, headed by Mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà.
The Mayor allowed the use of the historic Palazzo Alvaro, the city seat and one of the city’s most prestigious buildings, as the venue of the consular outreach.
The consular team processed 278 passports, 15 reports of birth, 15 affidavits, and five certifications. 14 individuals took the Oath of Allegiance for retention of Philippine citizenship. The Philippine Consulate, Reggio Calabria also rendered notarial services.
Sixteen individuals applied for Balik-Manggagawa Online with the Philippine Overseas Labor Office, while 78 availed themselves of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration services. The Social Security System and Pag-IBIG serviced 107 and 96 clients, respectively.
Reggio Calabria City is located at the “toe” of the Italian peninsula in the Calabria region, home to 2,172 Filipinos, and is separated from Sicily Island by the Strait of Messina. END
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Fourteen individuals take the Oath of Allegiance to the Philippines before Vice Consul Nadine Morales (leftmost) during the Reggio Calabria Outreach by the Philippine Embassy in Rome on 02-03 March 2019.
Gracing the ceremony is the Mayor of Reggio Calabria City, Mr. Giuseppe Falcomatà (second from left), who provided the city seat of Palazzo Alvaro as the venue of the outreach. Philippine Honorary Consul Francesco Mortelliti (third from left) also attended the ceremony. (Rome PE photo)
Passport clients await the distribution of their application forms during the consular outreach held by the Philippine Embassy in Rome on 02-03 March 2019 at Palazzo Alvaro in Reggio Calabria, Italy. (Rome PE photo)
The passport encoding area (center and right desks) of the Philippine Embassy in Rome and the notarization area (left desk) of the Philippine Consulate, Reggio Calabria in Palazzo Alvaro during the Consular Outreach by the Embassy on 2-3 March 2019 in Reggio Calabria, Italy. (Rome PE photo)