The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), through its Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs, repatriated over 7,000 overseas Filipinos this year, according to a statement released by the Office of the Press Secretary on Monday. READ:
THE PHILIPPINE Embassy in Bahrain brought home 50 Filipinos from Manama in January, the first batch of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ repatriation program for 2022. — DFA
President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. earlier assured of stronger coordination between the DFA and the newly-formed Department of Migrant Workers to provide better assistance to overseas Filipinos. The top country destinations were Saudi Arabia at about 24.4% and United Arab Emirates at 14.4%. Other countries in Asia with large number of overseas Filipino workers were: Hongkong , Kuwait , Singapore , and Qatar .
Mr. Marcos had on several occasions described overseas Filipino workers as the pride of the Philippines as they “bring honor to the Filipino nation.”
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