10 December 2014 – A Philippine Embassy team composed of Mr. Adrian Cruz, Mr. Ruben Atienza, Ms. Generosa Balocating, Ms. Lourdes Marie Reyes and Mr. Melchor Francisco proceeded to Hamburg on November 29 to provide mobile consular services to Filipinos and German nationals alike. The one-day outreach was co-sponsored by the Federation of Filipino Organizations in Northern Germany (FFONG) and was the second outreach to be conducted in Hamburg for 2014.

Near-zero temperatures did not prevent forty two Filipinos from applying for new passports even as some of them took the opportunity to register as overseas voters for the 2016 Philippine national elections.  In addition, the Embassy team processed 30 assorted visa, authentication, certification and civil registry reports. The one-day activity was held at the Őkumenische Forum Hafen City, Hamburg.

Chargés d'affaires ad interim Mardomel Celo D. Melicor expressed his thanks to the Filipino community in Germany for their cooperation and participation in the consular outreaches that took place in different cities in Germany.

“For 2015, we intend to have at least seven consular outreach missions, and we wish to reach out to more Filipinos, which is why for next year we are going to schedule trips to Schweinfurt, Cologne, Essen, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and München.” 

Mr. Melicor also thanked the FFONG for their steadfast support of the Embassy mobile consular services, as well as their participation and promotional campaign of a number of important events such as the recent Berlin visit of President Benigno Aquino III, as well as the 2013 visits to Hamburg of Vice President Jejomar Binay, and of Social Security System (SSS) President and CEO Emilio S. de Quiros, Jr.  END