The Department of Foreign Affairs continues to step up its efforts to meet the consular needs of the public with its pioneering Passport on Wheels program by going to offices, hospitals, subdivisions, and schools nationwide to serve the applying public.
In a statement, the DFA said it has increased its capacity to serve more passport applicants since the launching of the PoW program last January, with the number of PoW applicants in the last six months already equivalent to the output of four medium-sized consular offices.
“Through the Passport on Wheels, we are not only able to bring our consular services closer to the people but, more importantly, serve more people, accommodating more than 138,000 applicants since January,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano said.
In addition to cities and municipalities, government offices such as Malacañang, Senate, House of Representatives, Department of Health, National Commission on Muslim Filipinos, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority were also visited by PoW teams.