The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday has opened several temporary off-site passport service (TOPS) sites to help address the current backlog and satisfy the country’s increasing demand for passport processing.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) does not collect any fees from entry exemption document (EED) applicants, except the visa fee paid to the issuing Philippine embassy or consulate abroad.
The Philippines championed a cooperative, transparent, science-based, and coordinated regional and global response for equitable access to vaccines at the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Seminar on Upholding Multilateralism held last July 13 via videoconference.
The Philippines and Singapore agreed to bolster ties in the areas of defense, trade and investment, labor, and health, specifically on pandemic response as the region continue to battle the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) worsened by the emergence of the more infectious Delta variant.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính spoke with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte over the phone late Monday, affirming that the archipelago nation is always an important and trustworthy partner that shares many concerns and strategic interests with Vietnam.
Countries sent their condolences to the Philippines after a C-130 Hercules military plane crashed in Patikul, Sulu, on Sunday, July 4, killing at least 52 people.
The Department of Foreign Affairs is opening an additional 177,500 slots in its passport appointment system until the end of September 2021, undersecretary for consular affairs Brigido Dulay announced on Monday, July 5.
Consul Paul Raymund Cortes, who headed the Philippine mission in Dubai and the neighboring northern emirates for the past six years, has been promoted as assistant secretary for migrant workers and would assume his new post soon as he returns home in August.
The Philippines and Japan signed the Exchange of Notes on the Donation of Japanese Vaccines on 29 June 2021, formalizing the provision of approximately one million AstraZeneca vaccines produced in Japan for the Philippines. The vaccines are on top of the Japanese Government’s contribution to the COVAX facility, and will arrive in the Philippines early July.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. inaugurated the new chancery of the Philippine Embassy in Rome on 27 June 2021. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle blessed the premises of the building on the same occasion
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), represented by Deputy Assistant Secretary Pablito A. Mendoza of the Office of European Affairs, took part in the commemoration of the 122nd Anniversary of the Historic Siege of Baler and the 19th Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day which was held in Baler, Aurora on 30 June 2021.
The Philippines signed an agreement with Brunei Darussalam for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income at the Empire Brunei Hotel in the Sultanate’s capital on 16 July 2021.
The Philippine Embassy in Tokyo commemorated the 75 years of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Honduras in a ceremony and simple reception held at its chancery on 09 July 2021
Philippine Ambassador to Vietnam Meynardo LB. Montealegre and Vietnam’s newly appointed Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Huong Dien met on 30 June 2021, noting the importance of the 45th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between the Philippines and Vietnam and the developments on the trade relations between both countries over the past 45 years.