A migrant advocate group pushed for the legalization of thousands of undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Syria after it hampered the government’s ongoing repatriation efforts in the Middle East country.
Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator John Monterona made the statement Friday amid the delays government is now facing in the repatriation of at least 17,000 OFWs in Syria, most of which are undocumented house hold service workers (HSW).
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) earlier said repatriation efforts in the conflict-torn Syria since most of the OFWs in the Middle East country do not have a registered residence, where they are working.
“We have been urging the government even before the upheavals, to work for the legalization, if not repatriation, of undocumented OFWs via diplomatic course of action with the host governments,” Monterona said. “But the PH government, for a long time, had just disregarded the thousands of undocumented OFWs here in the Middle East.”
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