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Migrante Middle East: $400 minimum salary can't address domestic helpers' woe

Saudi bans domestic workers from Philippines

Another Pinay sentenced to die for drugs in China

Undocumented students inspired by Vargas

PH gov't to query Saudis on maids 'ban'

Fil-Am feared dead in fishing boat accident

OFW in Malaysia falls to death from condo

Pinay in Palau hacked to death

DFA urged to help free Pinoy activist in KL

Filipino window-cleaner falls to death in Dubai

Gov't told: Send envoys to appeal Saudi maids ban

Immigration defends tough screening of departing Pinoys

'Most OFWs prefer to stay abroad than put up businesses in Phl'

Recruitment agencies want government to stabilize peso

Lower current account surplus seen on weaker OFW inflows

DOH allays fears on scarlet fever from Hong Kong

OFW inflows up 6% to $6.2 billion in 4 months

Banks see slower OFW remittance growth

New immigration cards to come out next week

Filipinos celebrate gay pride in London

BI tightens up screening on Bahrain-bound Pinoys??

Calif. teen is PH gymnastics bet in SEA Games

Report: PHL Embassy lodges complaint over OFW 'torture' in KSA?

DFA exec: 150,000 Pinoy professionals in Saudi at risk of losing jobs

Jose Rizal books on display at US Library of Congress?

52 distressed Pinays sheltered in Saudi seek help

Pinoy seafarers not afraid of EU ban - Labor chief



Exit clearance: An OFW's nightmare

I am now a full-fledged OFW. I share a common bond with thousands of overseas Filipino workers who had no choice but to get an exit clearance from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and, in the process, experienced what would possibly be one of our worst encounters with government bureaucracy.





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