PH Embassy in Rome Brings Consular Services to Filipinos in Florence

Applicants for passport renewal await they turn for biometrics capturing during the consular outreach mission in Florence held from 14 to 15 September 2019. (Rome PE photo)

ROME 30 September 2019 – A total of 886 Filipinos were served during the consular outreach of the Philippine Embassy in Rome, the Philippine Consulate in Florence headed by Honorary Consul  General Fabio Fanfani, and the Embassy’s partner agencies on 14 to 15 September 2019 in Florence.

The services rendered by the consular outreach team included 348 passport renewals, 21 civil registry applications, eight affidavits, and one application for correction of clerical error. A total of 22 individuals took their Oath of Allegiance for the reacquisition of Philippine citizenship.

A dialogue with members of the Filipino community in Florence and the Tuscany region was also held on 14 September 2019.

The Embassy’s attached agencies, the Philippine Overseas Labor Office and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration also rendered services to 226 clients, while the Social Security System and Pag-IBIG attended to 151 and 105 clients, respectively.

On 15 September 2019, several members of the consular outreach team visited a Filipino, who suffered from a stroke, in the hospital where he was being treated. The team assessed his condition to report the same to his relatives in the Philippines and likewise captured his biometrics to facilitate his application for passport renewal. This is part of the Embassy’s assistance to nationals program, consistent with the Philippine foreign policy on the protection of the rights and promotion of the welfare of overseas Filipinos.

This is the second consular outreach mission conducted by the Embassy in Florence this year. END

A Filipino was visited in the hospital by the consular outreach team from the Philippine Embassy in Rome to capture his biometrics to facilitate his application for passport renewal on 15 September 2019. (Rome PE photo)

A total of 22 individuals took their Oath of Allegiance for reacquisition of Philippine citizenship before Embassy Third Secretary and Vice Consul Ma. Claribel Ochoa during the consular outreach mission in Florence on 15 September 2019. (Rome PE photo) 

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