Monday, August 2, 2010

DFA Mobile e-Passporting slated this month

Oroquieta City – A one day mobile passporting by the Department of Foreign Affairs-Consular Office 10 will be conducted here to facilitate the acquisition of individual passport to residents of this city.


This is one project by the national offices is fully supported by the local government now under its new leadership.


With the authority given by City Mayor Jason P. Almonte to his tourism designate, is now preparing for the said passporting on August 21, 2010 at the City Gymnasium with the DFA Consular Office 10 employees who will come to the City of Good Life.


Accordingly, with the new e-passporting, Oroquietanons who will avail such identification papers will experience the I.T. technology activated passports for their personal used such as to work or travel abroad were passports are very important documents.


Lately, the department has introduced to the Filipinos, the e-passporting which application and its acquisition is now adopted worldwide. The e-passport is easy to access and ready to use as long as all required information about individual Filipinos can be accumulated by the passporting division and approved to be issued.


Here in the city, this will be the first outside service of the DFA to this part of Northern Mindanao, it may be recalled that only the provincial government has sponsored such passporting services of the DFA.


In his message, City Mayor Almonte expresses gratitude’s to the DFA in this endeavor that can surely help Oroquietanons economically. “I thank the DFA for this service to our people, with this, Oroquietanons can save economically, especially in having passports for their use instead of going to Cagayan de Oro or Cebu Consular Offices or even Manila to have a passport.” He said.


Today’s passport is worth 1,200 pesos excluding other documents to be processed like Birth certificates, NBI clearances, and other documents that need payments. With the DFA program of bringing e-passporting to localities and communities, these will minus travelling and hotel fees for any Filipino citizen to have a passport.(PJTremedal, BNDMisOC/CIB-OCM)

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