Consul Rona Beth Goce doing crowd control and giving out important reminders to consular applicants

The Philippine Embassy in Berlin conducted its seventh consular mobile outreach for the year in Frankfurt on 15 August 2015. The team, composed of Consul Rona Beth Goce, Ms. Amor del Mundo, Ms. Cecile Estrella, Ms. Mylah Rubio, Ms. Marie Reyes and Mr. Armand Mahinay, facilitated 138 passport applications, 36 notarization and authentication of documents, and 54 registrations under the overseas absentee voting system. The Embassy team was supported by Ms. Loredanna Hess, Honorary Consul at the Frankfurt Extension Office, Ms. Anabelle Apostol, Operations Officer and Mr. Mario Sicup of the Philippine Department of Tourism in Frankfurt.

Ms. Amor del Mundo with an overseas absentee voting registrant

For the second time, Dekra Akademie, under the auspices of Philippine Honorary Consul General Prof. Gerhard Zeidler, graciously hosted this year´s consular outreach. Using a pre-registration system, the consular team was able to better accommodate its applicants.

Team Frankfurt with Honorary Consul Loredanna Hess of the Frankfurt Extension Office, Ms. Anabelle Apostol and Mr. Dakila Gonzales of the Philippine Department of Tourism in Frankfurt. (Photos by Honorary Consul Loredanna Hess)

The mobile outreach is part of the Philippine Embassy’s efforts to bring its consular services closer to Filipinos residing in different parts of Germany. The next consular outreach services will take place in Bonn (September 5), Munich (September 19), and Essen (November 14). Further information may be found in the embassy website, www.philippine-embassy.de

Filipinos from Hamburg and nearby areas have their consular documents processed by the Consular Outreach Team from the Philippine Embassy in Berlin.

Berlin – A consular team from the Philippine Embassy in Berlin, composed of Minister Donna Rodriguez, Mr. Ruben Atienza, Ms. Cecilia Estrella, Mr. Melchor Francisco, Ms. Amor del Mundo and Ms. Marie Reyes, conducted a mobile outreach service at the Freie Evangelische Kirche Holstenwaal in Hamburg on 25 July 2015.

The Hamburg outreach was the sixth consular outreach missions to be conducted by the Philippine Embassy in 2015. The consular team was able to accommodate all consular applicants, facilitating 121 passport applications, notarization and authentication of documents, and registrations under the overseas absentee voting system. The team also answered consular inquiries posed by Filipino applicants and strengthened the Embassy’s network with Filipino community leaders.

The Berlin PE Consular Team led by Minister Donna Rodriguez pose with Filipino area coordinators in Hamburg after the successful consular mobile outreach

Following the consular outreach in Hamburg, the Embassy team traveled to nearby Lübeck the following day to conduct Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) registration in cooperation with Dinotrans SIA, a logistics and trucking company which employs around a hundred Filipino truck drivers. The team was able to register 26 overseas Filipino voters from Lübeck.

The Team captures the biometric data for new OAV registrants in Lübeck

The Philippine Embassy has been conducting regular outreach missions in different parts of Germany since 2013 as part of efforts to bring its consular services closer to Filipinos residing in Germany. The next outreach will take place in Frankfurt on 15 August 2015. (END)