OAVS (Election) to
start on April 13, 2013.
The Philippine Embassy is pleased to announce to the
Filipino community in Abu Dhabi and the Western regions
of the United Arab Emirates the overseas absentee
voting for the 2013 Philippine midterm elections will
start on April 13, 2013 (Saturday) and wll end on May
13, 2013(Monday). The polling will open at 8:00 in the
morning on April 13 and will close at 5:00 in the
afternoon.
The Philippine Embassy is strongly encouraging all
thee 21,645 registered voters based in Abu Dhabi to
exercise their rigts o vote andd to ccast their
ballots for their chosen senators and party-lists. The
voting will be open for eight (8) hours every day,
including weekends, at the Embassy.
The Embassy also plans to undertake outreach and
mobile overseas voting services. Details of these
services will be released to the community in due
course.
Advisory for Filipino
nationals seeking employment in Iran
Filipino nationals
seeking employment or who are otherwise offered
employment in Iran should ensure that they have
appropriate EMPLOYMENT VISA stamped on their passport
BEFORE they travel to Iran. Foreign nationals found
by Iranian authorities to be working without the
appropriate visa face imprisonment and a heavy
fine.
Advisory on text and
email scams
It is noted that there
is a proliferation of text and email scams. It is
advised that text or email offers of money, prizes,
gain, or profit received from persons who are not
personally known to you should be carefully considered
before you respond.
Do not provide your
bank account and credit card information, PINs, and
passwords, including important personal information, by
text or email to persons or entities who are not
personally known to you.
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