DFA and Philippine Embassy in Kuwait repatriate 130 OFWs from Kuwait

February 18, 2018

Around 130 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Kuwait arrived in Manila Saturday through a repatriation led by the Department of Foreign Affairs Office of Migrant Workers Affairs (DFA-OMWA) and the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait.

This brings the total number of repatriates to around 1,500, the DFA said in a statement Sunday..

Majority are household service workers who are grantees of the amnesty from the Kuwaiti government.

All amnesty grantees will receive P5,000 each in financial assistance from the DFA to help them resettle in the country while they search for other employment opportunities.  Many of the repatriated OFWs expressed their desire to work in other countries outside of the Middle East.

The most recent batch of repatriated OFWs are among the 10,000 overstaying OFWs that DFA-OMWA and the embassy are trying to repatriate as soon as possible. DMS