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Visa cost payment as illegal recruitment

Jun 26, 2018P OAdmiralty Newsfilipino seafarers, illegal recruitment, passport, pinoy seaman, POEA Contract, Seafarer lawyer, SIRB, visa

Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 2:56 a.m. By Atty. Dennis R. Gorecho

Witholding of travel documents as illegal recruitment

Mar 14, 2017P OAdmiralty Newsadmiralty others, illegal recruitment, Migrant Workers, overseas filipino workers, passport, Pinoy Marino, pinoy seafarers, POEA Contract, Seafarer’s Identification and Record Book, SIRB

4:29 am Tuesday, March 14, 2017 By: Atty. Dennis R. Gorecho Recruitment agencies and foreign principals and employers are prohibited from withholding travel documents of OFWs, including seafarers, as provided for by rules and regulations governing the recruitment and employment of OFWs. In many instances of non-deployment, many seafarers complain of withholding of travel documents…

Philippine Passport Application

Jan 31, 2017P OAdmiralty Newsadmiralty others, application, department of foreign affairs, DFA, passport, philippine seafarers, Philippines

11:18 am Tuesday, January 31, 2017 By: Atty. Dennis R. Gorecho A Philippine passport is both a travel document and a primary national identity document issued to citizens of the Philippines since there is no national identity card system in the Philippines. It is issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Philippine diplomatic missions abroad, with certain exceptions. The new biometric Philippine passport costs 950 pesos (approximately $21) in the Philippines…