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PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ELECTIONS 2025

Registered Filipino overseas voters (in Posts/Countries adopting online voting) may vote online in the May 12, 2025 elections.

To participate, you must be pre-enrolled as an online voter. Pre-enrolment for online voting via the COMELEC Voting Portal is from March 10 to May 7, 2025.

The 30-day overseas voting period is from 13 April 2025 until 12 May 2025, at 7:00PM Philippine Standard Time.

Your voice matters, so don't miss out! Let's make sure your vote counts!

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ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE CONSULAR OUTREACH IN MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK, 26-27 April 2025

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Moncton MWO Announcement Moncton

We are pleased to announce that the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa will conduct a consular outreach in Moncton, New Brunswick on the following dates:

Date: Saturday, 26 April 2025, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Sunday, 27 April 2025, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

The consular team will provide passport services, legalization, reports of birth, marriage and death, NBI clearance, information and enrollment assistance on the Overseas Voting and Counting System (OVCS) for registered Filipino overseas voters.

The Migrant Workers Office- Toronto (formerly Philippine Overseas Labor Office) will join the outreach mission. For MWO-related inquiries and their list of services, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We urge applicants not to bring with them people who have no consular business to conduct as the crowd will be tightly managed at the venue. Travel companions may wait outside the venue. Appearance is strictly by appointment only.

Please note that an approved appointment does not guarantee that your transaction will be completed on the appointed date without the presentation of sufficient documentary requirements. Please make sure to bring your complete documentary requirements, their photocopies, and cash or debit card for payment.

We look forward to serving you.

PASSPORT

All applicants for passport application/renewal must book an appointment through the following link:

appointment.ottawape.org/outreach/

Applicants should ensure that they bring with them complete requirements when they arrive at the venue for their transaction, particularly the printed application form and the required documents and their photocopies. We have no photocopying facilities at the venue. The requirements for passport application and renewal may be viewed at this page on our website:

https://ottawape.dfa.gov.ph/index.php/2016-04-12-08-36-34/2016-04-13-03-10-46/passports

Applicants must submit a pre-paid self-addressed Xpresspost envelope, with a signature sticker, which may be purchased from Canada Post or its agents. Please be reminded that Canada Post is closed on Sundays.

You will receive your new passport within 8 weeks from the date of application.

LEGALIZATION/REPORTS OF BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH/ NBI Form 5/ DUAL CITIZENSHIP SUBMISSION

Applicants for legalization, reports of birth, marriage, death, NBI Form 5 and dual citizenship submission must book an appointment through the following link:

appointment.ottawape.org/outreach/

Please click on Moncton Legalization/Civil Registry/NBI (Next-day release) if you are availing of the expedited service.

Please click on Moncton Legalization/Civil Registry/NBI (Release by mail) for regular processing (submission only).

Please be guided by the schedule below:

Documents processed on:	Will be released by:
26 April, Saturday 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. (expedite only)	27 April 2025, Sunday 8:00 A.M. – 10:00 a.m.
27 April, Sunday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	by mail

Please note that clients for legalization, reports of birth, marriage, death, and NBI Form 5 will not be allowed to wait at the venue after processing and will need to return on the indicated releasing schedule. For those who do not wish to return, you may bring a prepaid self-addressed Xpresspost envelope (with signature sticker) together with your documents and their photocopies at any point during the outreach. Please be reminded that Canada Post is closed on Sundays.

For those who will submit their dual citizenship application, the team will receive the application but the oath-taking and the release of documents will be scheduled in the next outreach missions to Moncton or to other nearby cities, or in Ottawa.

Please click the hyperlinks for the requirements:

Legalization.

[Note: Canada began issuing Apostille on 11 January 2024. The Embassy will not authenticate documents with Apostille. Documents with Apostille bear legal effect in the Philippines without the Embassy authentication.]

2025 NATIONAL ELECTIONS
13 April 2025 (Sunday) until 12 May 2025 (Monday), 7:00 AM EDT.

PRE-VOTING ENROLMENT FOR INTERNET VOTING

All the applicants who are registered voters may be assisted in pre-voting enrolment for the 2025 National Elections internet voting. Click here to check if you are a registered voter. Please bring your own internet-capable device and any of the following valid identification issued by the Philippine Government:

Passport
Seaman’s Book
PhilSys ID
IBP
Driver’s License

Click here to access FAQs about PRE-VOTING ENROLLMENT for registered Overseas Filipinos

For the schedule of consular fees, please refer to the table below:

fees

EMBASSY AND CONSULATES GENERAL IN CANADA PREPARE FOR INTERNET VOTING IN THE 2025 PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ELECTIONS

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27 March 2025, Ottawa – The Philippine Embassy and Consulates General in Canada and COMELEC’s Office for Overseas Voting (COMELEC OFOV) conducted a webinar on how overseas Filipinos can participate in the 2025 Philippine National Elections. This will be the first time that Filipinos in Canada can cast their vote through an online platform – a departure from the previous postal voting modality – aimed to make overseas voting secure, faster, more accessible, and convenient.

Only registered overseas Filipino voters can participate in the 2025 elections. In order to vote, registered voters will need to verify their identity and status of registration by enrolling into the Overseas Voting and Counting System (OVCS) starting 20 March 2025 to 07 May 2025. Once enrolled, said registered OVF can cast their votes using any browsers in their own internet-capable device from 13 April 2025 to 12 May 2025, 7:00PM (Philippine time).

Step 1 | Check if registered OV: Ottawa PE | Vancouver PCG | Toronto PCG | Calgary PCG

Step 2 | Enroll here: Overseas Voting Enrollment Page

Step 3 | Vote here: Overseas Voting Page

For those who missed it, please access the link below and share the video with families, friends, and colleagues who are duly-registered overseas Filipino voters in Canada.

Internet voting is being implemented by the Philippine Government for the first time in 77 Philippine Embassies and Consulates General across the world.

Virtual Briefing on the OVCS | Fixed

DOST SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH HALIFAX-BASED DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY FOR A GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

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Dalhousie University

26 March 2025 – The Philippine Department of Science and Technology signed, via Zoom, an agreement with Halifax-based Dalhousie University to establish a Graduate Scholarship Program (GSP). Signed by DOST Secretary Renato Solidum, Jr. and Dr. Balakrishnan Prithiviraj, Associate Vice President, Global Relations of Dalhousie University, the agreement aims to create mechanisms for doctoral students from the Philippines to study and conduct research at Dalhousie University with support provided jointly through DOST and Dalhousie scholarships.

The signing was witnessed by Post’s Deputy Head of Mission Myca Fischer, Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines David Hartman, Executive Director Mike McMurray of the Department of Intergovernmental Affairs, Province of Nova Scotia, and other officials of DOST, Dalhousie University, and the Canadian Embassy.

Under the GSP, DOST will provide scholarships for up to 10 PhD students from the Philippines annually, covering full domestic tuition, living allowances, round-trip airfare, dissertation allowances, and health insurance. Dalhousie will offer program support such as matching scholars with advisors, facilitating laboratory access, and providing domestic tuition rates. Priority PhD programs include health and medicine, computer science, engineering, physics and atmospheric science, animal science, plant science, smart agriculture, and oceanography, marine biology, aquaculture, and marine management.

Dalhousie University is the 3rd Canadian university tapped by DOST for its GSP, following similar agreements with the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta.

In welcoming the agreement, Philippine Ambassador to Canada, Maria Andrelita S. Austria, conveyed her strong belief that Filipino scholars would greatly benefit from the world-class education and state-of-the-art facilities at Dalhousie University. She emphasized, "By investing in its scientists, the Philippines reaffirms its commitment to enhancing the nation's ability to foster knowledge and innovation, driving real-world solutions that address the needs of our people." -END

Briefing in Montreal on Internet Voting for the 2025 Philippine National Elections

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Briefing in Montreal

The Embassy of the Philippines in Ottawa, Canada invites registered overseas Filipino voters for a Briefing on Internet Voting for the 2025 Philippine National Elections on 11 April 2025 at 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Dahlia Meeting Room, Holiday Inn Montreal Centreville Downtown, 999 rue Saint-Urbain Montreal, Quebec H2Z 0B4.