23 September 2014 - The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco has just wrapped up another successful Consular Outreach in Aurora and Colorado Springs, Colorado this September. The highly anticipated Consulate-on-Wheels (COW) in Colorado provided much needed passport, civil registry and legal services to our kababayans in the Rocky Mountain State.
The outreach was organized in coordination with volunteers from the Filipino-American community in Colorado. From September 5 and 6, Filipinos gathered at the Cross Wind Community Church in Aurora for the two-day event. The Philippine Consulate General team then travelled to Colorado Springs on September 7 and 8 to meet and assist the Filipinos in the area. The Outreach was held at the Connections 4 Life/Food Pantry Center in the neighboring municipality of Fountain, Colorado.
Deputy Consul General Jaime Ramon T. Ascalon, team leader of COW Colorado, also gave a talk on the consular services provided by Consulate General, particularly on matters that are relevant to the community, such as civil registration and dual citizenship.
The COW in Colorado yielded a total of 318 passport applications, 34 acknowledgement and authentication certificates, 54 reports of births and marriages, and 84 dual citizenship applications.
An added service in all of the Consulate General’s Consular Outreach is the overseas voters registration. Filipinos all over the world are encouraged to participate in the ongoing overseas voters registration to be eligible to vote in the 2016 presidential elections. A total of 332 kababayans were registered in Aurora and Colorado Springs.
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To find out more about upcoming Consulate-on-Wheels, please check the Philippine Consulate General’s website www.philippinessanfrancisco.org, or follow the Consulate’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/PCGSF. END