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Travel agents call for permanent restoration of passporting services

By Ehda Dagooc | January 16, 2013 - 12:00am

 While the government has given allowance for travel agencies to provide passporting services to clients until June of this year, stakeholders are calling for the restoration of the old directive, as this could...

Freeman Cebu Business

DFA to set up call center to aid passport applicants

By Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon | July 5, 2012 - 12:00am

The Department of Foreign Affairs will soon establish a call center to allow passport applicants to choose the date and time they would like to be accommodated in any consular office nationwide.

Cebu News

Travel agents can process passports until December

July 4, 2012 - 12:00am

Travel agents are still allowed to process passport applications of their clients in the next six months.

Cebu News

House probe sought versus DFA memo

June 24, 2012 - 12:00am

A member of the House of Representatives is pushing for an investigation into the cancellation of accreditation of new travel agencies in Cebu.

Cebu News

Reconsideration sought on new DFA passport processing policy

By Grace Melanie L. Lacamiento | June 6, 2012 - 12:00am

Different travel and tour agencies are asking the Department of Foreign Affairs to reconsider its directive disallowing them to process passport applications effective next month.

Cebu News

Travel agencies bawal nang magproseso ng pasaporte

By Danilo Garcia | May 12, 2012 - 12:00am

Pinalagan ng isang asosasyon ng mga travel agencies ang inilabas na memorandum ng Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) na nagbabawal na magproseso sila ng pasaporte na papatay umano sa kanilang industriya.

Bansa

Ridiculous; travel agencies say DFA taking over processing of passports

May 9, 2012 - 12:00am

The Department of Foreign Affairs Regional Consular Office in Cebu has given travel agencies until June 30, 2012 to file the passport applications of their clients.This after DFA said the processing of passport applications...

Cebu News

Sekyu sa DFA-7 dakma sa extortion

By Ni Freeman News Service | April 29, 2012 - 12:00am

Nagwakas ang modus operandi ng 35-anyos na security guard na nakatalaga sa Department of Foreign Affairs-7 sa Mandaue City matapos maaresto ng pulisya sa inilatag na entrapment operation noong Huwebes ng gabi sa...

Probinsiya

Security guard at DFA-7 arrested for extortion and robbery

By Flor Z. Perolina | April 28, 2012 - 12:00am

A security guard detailed at the Department of Foreign Affairs-7 in Mandaue City was arrested in an entrapment operation Thursday evening for extorting money from passport applicants.

Freeman Metro Cebu