PH Embassy in Berlin Brings Consular Services to Hamburg

Ambassador to Germany Theresa Dizon-De Vega (center) with the Consular Outreach Team, Labor Attaché Delmer Cruz, and Filipino community volunteers. (Berlin PE photo)

BERLIN 19 July 2019 – As part of its mandate to provide consular services to Filipinos under its jurisdiction, the Philippine Embassy in Berlin conducted a Consular Outreach Mission at the Kleiner Michel Parish Hall in Hamburg on 13 July 2019.

A total of 121 consular services including passport applications, civil registration, visa applications, and legalization of documents were rendered by the outreach team headed by Ambassador to Germany Theresa Dizon-De Vega and supported by Third Secretaries and Vice Consuls Marie Chris Chieng and Mina Lim-Ganzon, Ruben Atienza, Rowena Hernandez, and Renante Estrella. Also joining the mission was Labor Attaché Atty. Delmer Cruz.

Over 35 clients also took advantage of the one-on-one counselling services throughout the day-long operation.

The outreach team was assisted by Filipino Catholic Mission (PKM), Filipino community leaders and volunteers from different associations based in Hamburg and nearby areas, and parish priest Rev. Fr. Simon Boisier.

Filipino community leader and volunteer Lalaine Dela Cruz, welcomed the Outreach Mission as it brought services closer to Filipinos who live a considerable distance from the Embassy and made the application process for consular matters more convenient. “Filipinos in this area really anticipate the holding of an outreach mission by the Embassy every year”, she said.

An estimated 1,600 Filipinos reside in the Hamburg area with additional population based in the nearby areas of Kiel, Bremen, Rostock, and Lübeck. In addition, hundreds of Filipino seafarers pass through the port of Hamburg on a daily basis.

Ambassador Dizon-De Vega thanked the public, the Parish, PKM, and the Filipino community volunteers for their invaluable assistance in the Outreach Mission.  The Embassy will conduct additional missions in other parts of Germany for the remainder of the year. END 

Applicants took advantage of the new 10-year validity of Philippine passports during the consular services in Hamburg. (Berlin PE photo)

Processing of applications continued throughout the day at the Outreach Venue (Berlin PE photo)

For more information, visit  https://www.berlinpe.dfa.gov.ph, https://www.philippine-embassy.de  or https://www.facebook.com/PHinGermany.