{"id":145875,"date":"2018-01-12T19:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T00:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145875"},"modified":"2018-01-12T19:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T00:44:31","slug":"passport-appointments-currently-best-system-to-implement-cayetano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/12\/passport-appointments-currently-best-system-to-implement-cayetano\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport appointments currently \u2018best system\u2019 to implement: Cayetano"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91208\" style=\"width: 851px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15284832_717871641701006_6152221518879721172_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91208\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15284832_717871641701006_6152221518879721172_n.jpg\" alt=\"Cayetano said around three million Filipinos flock to DFA annually to apply for passports.  (Photo: Department of Foreign Affairs Republic of the Philippines\/ Facebook)\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15284832_717871641701006_6152221518879721172_n.jpg 851w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15284832_717871641701006_6152221518879721172_n-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15284832_717871641701006_6152221518879721172_n-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cayetano said around three million Filipinos flock to DFA annually to apply for passports.<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/photos\/a.138804356274407.31351.138743156280527\/717871641701006\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo: <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/\">Department of Foreign Affairs Republic of the Philippines\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is not yet inclined to remove the passport appointment system, which to date still faces numerous backlogs.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference on Friday, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said the adoption of a walk-in system is currently out of question due to the influx of passport applicants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not saying the appointment system is ok,&#8221; he said, but pointed out that at present, &#8220;it&#8217;s the best system&#8221; to implement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re only doing 9,000 a day but we&#8217;re doing 15,500 (applicants),\u201d he explained.&#8221;If applicants a day are around 60,000 and our capacity is 50 (thousand) we can do walk-ins, but if our capacity is less than 20,000 a day we cannot,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano said around three million Filipinos flock to DFA annually to apply for passports.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to 2010, the agency said before DFA-Office of Consular Affairs was moved to the DFA-Aseana Building, there was no appointment system and long lines stretch up to Libertad Street.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Pilipinas Teleserv until July 2016 managed the queue in DFA-Aseana, minus the regional consular offices (RCO) and satellite offices (SO).<\/p>\n<p>After a few months, the online appointment system was established, now with the inclusion of RCOs and SOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is not yet inclined to remove the passport appointment system, which to date &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[18674,42953,42952],"class_list":["post-145875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-department-of-foreign-affairs-dfa","tag-passport-appointment-system","tag-passport-appointments-currently-best-system-to-implement-cayetano","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}