The Philippine Embassy in Wellington rendered this year’s first mobile consular services in Auckland, the region where there is growing number and largest concentration of Filipinos. Held at the Conference Room of the Independent Living Services Charitable Trust at 14 Erson Avenue, Royal Oak, Auckland on 7-11 February 2019, this mission processed a total of 1,201 consular transactions comprising passport application/renewal, civil registration (reports of births and marriages), notarial services, fingerprinting for National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) forms, and Philippine citizenship retention/re-acquisition application and administering of oath of allegiance.

During this outreach, the Philippine Consulate in Auckland provided notarial/legal and fingerprinting services at the same venue. Individual free legal advice was also offered by Honorary Vice Consul Randell Oneal Mendoza to interested Filipino migrants on several essential issues such as buying and selling of property or business, commercial leasing, employment disputes, immigration, preparing a will, relationship/family disputes and setting up a family trust.

The Filipino Community in Auckland and in the neighbouring areas including those in the Northland, Bay of Plenty and Waikato regions, expressed their appreciation of this undertaking to Ambassador of the Philippines to New Zealand Jesus S. Domingo and to the Philippine Embassy mobile consular team led by Consul Glenn Joseph Q. Obach as this provided them access to the Embassy’s services without need to travel to Wellington – about eight (8) hours away by car. The outreach was also an opportunity for the Embassy to strengthen its linkages with the Filipino Community and to respond to various consular and related inquiries.

Details of succeeding mobile consular missions are posted on the Philippine Embassy website (www.philembassy.org.nz) and on Facebook (Philippine Embassy - Wellington, New Zealand).

Passport applicants avail themselves of the services provided by the mobile consular team of the Philippine Embassy in Wellington during its outreach mission in Auckland, New Zealand on 7-11 February 2019.

Passport applicants avail themselves of the services provided by the mobile consular team of the Philippine Embassy in Wellington during its outreach mission in Auckland, New Zealand on 7-11 February 2019.

Oath of Allegiance pursuant to Republic Act No. 9225 (Citizenship Retention and Re-acquisition Act of 2003) is administered at the Philippine Embassy consular services outreach mission in Auckland, New Zealand on 7-11 February 2019.