Twenty-two Filipinos who were caught working illegally in Bahrain arrived back home Saturday.
The workers, who had been staying at the Philippine Embassy’s half-way house in Manama, Bahrain, for several months, were finally able to leave after Philippine Embassy officials secured exit visas for them.
Philippine Ambassador to Bahrain Ma. Corazon Yap-Bahjin accompanied the repatriated workers back to Manila aboard a Qatar Airways flight.
Yap-Bahjin said the workers were under the care of the embassy for over four months while embassy officials worked to get travel clearances from their employers.
“Most of them are runaways who could not adjust to the cultural conditions there. Had they gone through the legal process they would have been briefed by their recruitment agencies on what to expect,” she said.
Yap-Bahjin said the embassy staff were able to speed up the travel clearances for the workers since it was the month of Ramadan, when people in the Gulf State are in a more giving and forgiving spirit.
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