- DFA GIVES BACK PASSPORT APPOINTMENT SLOTS TO THE PUBLIC. 04 September 2017 — In a bid to make more appointment slots for passport applications available to the public, travel agencies are no longer entitled to fixed appointment slots at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) for their clients’ passport application and renewal.
- DFA on Friday said it will open 10,000 online slots from Monday to Saturday, except holidays. 5,000 passport appointment slots will be opened at 12 p.m., then another 5,000 slots will be available.
- But as of today, you would’ve seen DFA’s passport appointment website like this: Last Feb, the same thing happened. I went to passport.gov.ph to set an appointment for passport renewal. But all slots were full until June, in all satellite offices around Luzon. I was fidgety and worried since my passport would expire in 5 months.
Early of 2017, slots for passport appointment are closing one by one much to the frustration of many applicants. This did not change by the start of 2018 where an increase of over 100k slots was added but still, this addition did not cater every past applicant and even the new ones.
The DFA also vowed to open 10,000 slots everyday from Mondays to Saturdays, except holidays. Meanwhile, the agency is still investigating employees who are said to be conspiring with a syndicate that sells passport appointment slots. Thousands of appointment slots for passport renewal and application are now open, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on Thursday.
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Due to the increasing backlog, many Filipino are cursing the incompetence of the Department of Foreign Affairs or DFA in opening more slots to cater all those who wants to apply or renew their passport. The passport appointment system was controversial in January of 2018 due to the slots being fully booked until March of the same year causing many workers and travelers so much inconvenience.
This is why to accommodate the influx of applicants, TheDepartment of Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano released a statement on Thursday announcing that the DFA will open about 100,000 appointment slots for those who want to apply for a passport and those who wished to renew their passport.
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He clarified that the 10k appointments are on top of the 336,743 appointment slots for June 1 up to the 30th of September 2018 that are already taken. He also said in the briefing that the 50k slots will be open and available at the DFA website from noon and the other 50k will be open at around 9 p.m.
He added that the department also plans to open another 10k slots from Mondays to Saturdays at aroud 12 noon onwards until 9 p.m to further accommodate the rising number of passport applicants nationwide. However, only 12k slots are open for online applicants while 1,000 slots are available for the first time overseas Filipino workers through their licensed recruitment agencies, 4k slots for passport on wheels, and 2k slots for walk- in applicants.
The earliest appointment available in the website for the DFA office located at Aseana is on June 25. The agency reminded the applicant to refresh the website for the opening of more appointment slots.
Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1038265
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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on Monday a new passport appointment policy that targets to provide an easier passport application and renewal process for more Filipinos.
Appointment slots for passport application and renewal initially reserved for its employees and travel agencies will be redistributed to the public starting August 1, 2017.
According to Ricarte Abejuela III, acting director of the Passport Division of the Office of Consular Affairs, OFWs, senior citizens, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, solo parents, and children seven years and below are entitled to the express lane, easing the passport application process especially for first time OFWs.
“Our policy now is that no OFW should be left without a job just because he couldn’t get a passport,” Inquirer quotes Abejuela as saying.
The Filipino Times previously reported that DFA opened a total of 94,350 appointment slots from July to August—62,450 were added due to the increase in appointment quotas, while 31,900 came from cleaning up of fictitious appointments.
Credit: Inquirer
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