CANCELLATION OF THE EMBASSY'S CONSULAR OUTREACH MISSIONS

Due to the extreme socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 in the country, the Philippine Government was compelled to implement steep budget cuts to re-channel resources and prioritize pandemic response, particularly to save the lives, control the spread of the disease, and safeguard the health of our families at home.

As a result, your Embassy, along with all other Philippine Foreign Service Posts worldwide, will have operations at the bare-minimum, which means, among others, having to cancel all its consular outreach missions to the regions for the rest of the year. Whether or not one or two may still be mounted in the last quarter of 2020 is unknown and will largely depend on how the current situation develops and on instructions to be issued by the national government.