{"id":267195,"date":"2020-08-31T23:57:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T03:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=267195"},"modified":"2020-08-31T23:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T03:57:52","slug":"poea-extends-validity-of-ofws-employment-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/31\/poea-extends-validity-of-ofws-employment-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"POEA extends validity of OFWs\u2019 employment certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_236731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236731\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/406284_321787731247157_29447789_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-236731\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/406284_321787731247157_29447789_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/406284_321787731247157_29447789_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/406284_321787731247157_29447789_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/406284_321787731247157_29447789_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This, after the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) extended the OECs\u2019 validity until government has lifted all the community quarantines to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the country. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/poea.gov.ph\/photos\/a.321785201247410\/321787731247157\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/poea.gov.ph\/\">Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA)\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) whose overseas employment certificates (OECs) have expired during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) need not to worry.<\/p>\n<p>This, after the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) extended the OECs\u2019 validity until government has lifted all the community quarantines to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther to POEA Advisory No. 48, series of 2020, the public is hereby advised that the original validity or the revalidation of OECs issued to OFWs which expired during the enhanced community quarantine is hereby extended until all the community quarantines in the country have been lifted,\u201d the POEA\u2019s Advisory No. 124 signed by Administrator Bernard Olalia on August 27 read.<\/p>\n<p>The POEA said OFWs who are scheduled to leave the country but have expired OECs are advised to go to office of the POEA that issued the certificate.<\/p>\n<p>The OFWs may also go to the Labor Assistance Center (LAC) at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and other international airports in the country, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The POEA said OFWs are required to present the original copy of expired OEC, copy of employment contract, copy of valid work permit\/visa, and valid passport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe requirements stated in the Advisory No. 48 shall be presented for evaluation, revalidation and stamping of OEC as \u201cCLEARED,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The OEC, known as exit clearance\/pass, is issued by the POEA to certify the regularity of recruitment and documentation of an OFW.<\/p>\n<p>The document is presented by the OFW to the immigration officer at the airport of exit in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) whose overseas employment certificates (OECs) have expired during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) need not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":236731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267195","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=267195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267196,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267195\/revisions\/267196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}