OFWs in Italy request Sunday operating hours at Philippine Embassy and Consulates in Italy

Press Release:
September 20, 2015

A migrant OFW group in Rome has requested the Philippine Embassy in Rome and the consulate in Milan to open on Sundays so that working OFWs in Italy can attend to their passports and other documentation needed by their families in the Philippines.

The OFW Family Party List Chapter in Italy represented by Datuk (Sir) Felix Mendoza Landicho Jr., KRSS Chapter President formally presented a letter to the current Ambassador Domingo Pradiz Nolasco Philippine Ambassador to Italy and San Marino to open the embassy and consulate office on Sundays so that thousands of Filipinos working in Italy as full-time carers or household workers can take care of their requirements like passports and authentication of their documents.

In the same letter request Mr. Landicho sought the approval of Ambassador Nolasco the authentication of documents to be free of charge for OFWs as this in additional expense for the OFWs noting that the decline of the Euro has affected their living expenses in Italy.

The OFW Family Party List Italy Chapter was recently opened by Mr. Landicho after his meeting with the founder of the OFW Family Club Party List, Ambassador Roy V. Seneres now Party-list Representative in the House of Representatives.

Pls. refer to: Mr. Manny S. Geslani, +639175770630, +639088761846

OFWs in Italy start signature campaign to oppose BOC plan on boxes

Press Release:

The House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs start today an investigation on the p-previous plan of the Bureau of Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina to randomly inspect Balik Bayan Boxes of OFWs which has ignited a world-wide protest from millions of OFWs.

A coalition of the OFW Family Party List and the Federation of Filipina Women in Italy have started a signature campaign in Rome and key cities in Italy to signify their vehement opposition to the Bureau of Customs plan to inspect Balik Bayan boxes.

Despite an order from President Aquino to Bureau of Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina to use electronic means to detect suspicious or dutiable items inside the boxes OFWs in Italy are still cautious on the plan of the BOC to inspect the boxes and to add additional taxes on their belongings sent to their families in the Philippines.

Newly appointed OFW Family Party List Representative to Italy by Rep. Roy Seneres, Sr. Mr. Junn Felix Landicho of Task Force OFW - Italy said that his members will continue the signature campaign started last Aug. 30, 2015 as their protest to the previous plan of BOC to inspect Balik Bayan Boxes.

Here is the statement from OFW Family Party List:

Mga kababayan,

Bagaman at binawi na ni Pres. Noynoy Aquino ang paglapastangan ng Bureau of Customs sa ating mga pinagpawisang Balik Bayan Box ay tuloy pa rin ang pangangalap natin ng mga pirma ng pagtutol. Ang isa sa mga pinagbasehan ng Presidente sa pagbawi nito ay ang ma-agap na pagtutol ng "OFW Family Partylist" sa pamamagitan ng sulat ni Rep. Amba Roy Seneres mismo sa Presidente at ang dialogo niya kay Commissioner Lina. Ito ay sinundan ng malawakang protesta "rin" ng ibat-ibang asosasyon / samahang OFW na isa sa mga nagpatunay na tayong lahat ay nagkaka-isang tumututol sa aksyong ito ng tanggapan ni Lina. Maaaring sabihin na bakit pa tayo magsasagawa ng ganitong pagkilos, Subalit ito ay pagpapa-abot na hindi tayo nagbibiro sa mga aktong makapipinsala sa dignidad at karapatan nating mga OFW at Pamilya. Kaya tuloy po ang kampanya ng pagtutol sa maaaring gawing balintuna ang pangako ng Presidente Aquino. Nangako rin siya na ipatitigil ang 550Terminal fee integration na tahasang panloloko ng pamunuan ng MIAA na si Horado. Nangako na ang Presidente, Kaya tayo ay pumirma upang ito ay huwag ng bawiin pa.

Ipagpatuloy ang laban, lumagda para sa ating karapatan!

TaskForce - OFW                                                                                                     
OFW Family Partylist
Fed. of Women in Italy
https://www.facebook.com/events/870686499666325/

Pls. refer to: Mr. Manny S. Geslani, +639175770630, +639088761846