QuestionsQuestions (POEA MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 29)
It clarifies and directs that for US-bound workers with employment-based immigrant visas, the Pre-departure Orientation Seminar (PDOS) requirement can be satisfied by the PDOS conducted by the Commission on Filipino Overseas (CFO), instead of separate POEA/OWWA PDOS.
US-bound workers who hold an employment-based immigrant visa.
Because essential information contained in PDOS programs administered by OWWA and the POEA is already incorporated in the PDOS being provided by the CFO to outbound Filipinos with immigrant visas.
OWWA and the POEA PDOS programs (with essential information already incorporated into the CFO PDOS).
The CFO PDOS is sufficient for processing.
Daily for 1-1/2 hours.
The worker-immigrant must personally register with the CFO Migrant Integration and Education Office.
At the 2nd and 3rd Floors, Citygold Center, Quirino Avenue corner South Superhighway.
The worker-immigrant must present his/her passport and the visa.
P100.00.
It signals that the circular is intended to guide and require compliance by concerned parties in processing covered workers.
Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, Administrator.
The circular is dated and filed on 18 November 2003, indicating the administrative directive took effect from that timeframe for guidance/compliance.
It adopts a streamlining approach by deeming one PDOS sufficient because the substantive content overlaps, reducing redundant compliance burdens.
No. The circular states that CFO PDOS shall be sufficient requirement for processing, implying that separate PDOS from POEA/OWWA is not required for this covered category.