Pnoys Abroad

Filipino workers can work abroad through direct hiring by foreign employers or by applying to a POEA licensed Philippine recruitment agencies. Our guide below outlines the important information you need to know. Working Abroad thru Philippine Recruitment Agencies DEFINITION Foreign Placement Agency refers to a foreign principal indirectly engaging the services of Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs. Private Employment Agency ...

Majority of Filipinos dream of going out of country for either work or travel purposes. Of course, in order to do that, first we need to obtain a valid Philippine Passport. Below are some guides on how to get passport for First-timers. REQUIREMENTS FOR PASSPORT APPLICATION  I. FOR FIRST TIME PASSPORT APPLICANTS GENERAL REQUIREMENTS Personal appearance Confirmed appointment Duly accomplished ...

NEW YORK CITY – The Philippine Independence Day parade in New York City is the largest celebration of its kind outside the Philippines attracting tens of thousands of people from across the northeast coast. “We have elevated our presence here in the United States. We’re the second largest Asian ethnic minority, so we are doing it in a big way ...

JEDDAH – The Filipina household service worker, who posted on Facebook a photo of herself covered in bruises, has been rescued. Jocelyn Lucena is now under the custody of the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah. “Malaking pasasalamat ko talaga sa Facebook, saka ang bilis-bilis din agad ng pagka-rescue [ng Philippine Consulate] sa akin. Napakabilis talaga,” said Lucena. Lucena took to the ...

By Rhia Alcantara | ABS-CBN News North America Bureau WINNIPEG, CANADA – Mikaela Abraham Mendez brought pride to the Filipino community besting 16 candidates from all over Manitoba as she bagged the 2015 provincial title of Miss Teenage Winnipeg. It was a sweet and humbling victory for this 17-year-old Filipina who never joined a pageant in the past. “I wasn’t ...

By: Melissa Legarda Alcantara | INQUIRER.net US Bureau/UK Correspondent LONDON — Hundreds of National Health Service nurses, predominantly Filipinos and their supporters, on Saturday, May 30 demonstrated outside the Daily Mail headquarters here to protest the newspaper’s “racially abusive coverage” of Filipino healthcare workers and nurses following the conviction of Philippine-born nurse Victorino Chua for murdering several patients. Following the conviction of ...

By: INQUIRER.net US Bureau   TACOMA, Washington — A 13-year-old Filipino American girl committed suicide by jumping off a bridge into a busy interstate highway Friday, May 29 at 5 p.m. apparently after being publicly shamed on social media by her father for a reason still unknown. Izabel Laxamana’s father cut off the teen’s long and flowing black hair and posted ...

Every Filipino dreams of helping their families live a better future by venturing to greener pastures. Middle East is the second largest continent where OFW’s reside and keep their hopes alive. UAE is among the most popular countries in the Middle East most especially the city of Dubai. However famous this city is, most of us are still not aware ...