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PHILIPPINE CONSULATE GENERAL IN TORONTO CONDUCTS CONSULAR SERVICES AND OAV REGISTRATION IN ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO
2021-09-08
PR-2021-50
04 September 2021, Toronto, Ontario – The Philippine Consulate General in Toronto is pleased to inform that a consular team led by Consul General Orontes V. Castro conducted the first Consular Outreach Mission in Southern Ontario to St. Catharines this year on 04 September 2021. Consul General Castro also met with Filipino students with foreign student visas in Canada. The representatives from POLO-Toronto and SSS joined the consular mission to reply and attend to queries on employment, membership with OWWA, and financial and non-monetary benefits for retirees.
The OF applicants were thankful to the consular team for undertaking the outreach mission and for providing consular and other services to Overseas Filipinos in Ontario. The consular outreach mission was supported by the Caregivers and Support Network of Niagara (CANN) led by its President, Ms. Salvacion Silva.
A total of 198 consular services (including 67 Overseas Absentee Voters registration) were extended to Overseas Filipinos in St. Catharines and the nearby City of Hamilton and the Niagara Falls region.
Another Consular Outreach Missions are scheduled this month in the Southwestern Ontario city of Windsor and municipality of Leamington, and the South-central town in Ontario of Orangeville. END-
