Consul General Michael Lyndon Garcia (extreme right) with overseas Filipinos joining the repatriation flight, members of the Philippine Embassy team, and representatives of the DFA Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs (OUMWA)
BANGKOK, 24 MARCH 2022 - Fifty-three (53) overseas Filipinos from Thailand arrived today in Manila, aboard a Philippine Government repatriation flight initiated by the Department of Foreign Affairs and facilitated by the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.
The repatriated overseas Filipinos were mostly working in Thailand’s education and tourism industry but lost employment due to the pandemic, facing difficulties in supporting themselves while looking for new employment. The repatriates included infants, children, and those with medical conditions.
The flight departed Bangkok for Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam where an additional 142 overseas Filipinos joined the flight to Manila.
The latest repatriation flight brings the total number of repatriates from Thailand to 808 since the Embassy's first repatriation flight in April 2020. The Embassy also facilitated commercial airlines’ applications with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging and Infectious Diseases (IATF-IED) for special flight permits and additional seat allocations to accommodate distressed Filipino travelers over the last two years of the pandemic. END
