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POEA Adopts New Travel Clearance Procedure for OFWs
Shorter lines but longer waiting time awaits returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
To keep the queues of vacationing OFWs short, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has adopted new procedures and processing of the mandatory travel exit clearance.
“The new procedures would allow our OFWs to efficiently manage their time in securing travel exit clearance by adjusting the processing time in two phases,” POEA chief Carlos Cao Jr. said.
Under the new POEA policy, all returning OFWs shall submit the application and all the necessary requirements in securing exit clearance before the POEA for appropriate evaluation.
If all the documents are in order, the POEA would issue a claim stub to the OFW, who shall then return the following day to get the necessary exit clearance.
Cao advised all returning OFWs to properly observe the processing time and apply for the exit clearance ahead of their flight schedule or actual date of departure to avoid inconvenience.
POEA officials admitted that many returning OFWs were displeased by the long lines when applying for exit clearance while vacationing in the country.
An average of 3,000 returning OFWs come to POEA daily to secure the exit clearance. The figure even doubles during the Christmas holidays when a huge number of OFWs opt to go on vacation.
OFWs are required to secure overseas employment certificate and travel exit clearance from the POEA before departure.
Although the line would now be shorter, some OFWs are already complaining that they would have to wait longer to be able to secure the mandatory exit clearance.
Unlike before when the clearance would be issued on the day of the submission of the application, OFWs would now have to return the following day to get the document.
Since they would have to go back, OFWs said it also meant additional expenses for them.
Source: Philippine Star
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anong klaseng administration yan bakit ayaw palabasin ng bansa 3months na ako nag aaply ng exit pending pa din ung papers ko,na kay carlos cao jr.di kagaya dati medyo madali lang ang ribbon ngaun dami nila proseso na kailangan,dami ko na utang sa mga papers ko contrata na lang kulang ko..natawag ako sa POEA naka pending pa daw un papers ko at di lang daw ako un pending.grabe katagal na.
I don't even get what the medical examination is for when the embassy of the country issuing the visa already have required medical before they issue the visa!! And the fees!! my goodness!! Php6000++ para saan??? it's absurd!!! I hope the president would at least look into this details!!
Bakit kasi di na lang mag-bayad on-line and print a bar-coded receipt that will be shown at the naia. But then, the process will be too simple, no room for human interactions and no chance to ask for "pang-kape" ….o baka naman maging sobrang simple and they cannot justify their job existence (job security).
BY law, any Filipinos (OFW o hindi) are entitled to consular assistance and protection overseas, que registered o hindi sa poea /owww na yan. In short, irrelevant talaga yung mga agencies na yan, pang-pahirap lang sa mga kababayan natin.
Obviously, it is not a solution to the problem. It is only placebo.
They have issued the OFW ID. I have this ID since 1993. Until now they still say the same thing, “The system is not yet ready.”
Is the OEC really doing what is it originally inteded for? Or is it just another legal way to rob the returning/vacationing OFWs for a share of what they have worked hard for abroad and a share of their vacation time?
There is a solution actually. But of course nobody in the POEA likes it. Mawawala ang “kita”!
I agree!!! it's a legal way of robbery!! wala nang magawa ang government ng pilipinas puro na lang pahirap sa mga tao!