(Top Left) Applicants wait for their passport renewal applications during the outreach mission held at the Mariners’ Center in Bermuda on 18-22 May 2018. (Top Right) Consular Assistant Aileen B. Cuya processes a passport applicant at the outreach mission. (Bottom Left) The Embassy’s Voter Registration Machine (VRM) Operator Mr. Alvin Conchas III registers a new overseas voter. (Bottom Right) Consul Eric R. Aquino welcomes Filipinos to the outreach and gives information on consular services provided by the Embassy.

(Left) Consul Jeffrey P. Salik processes a consular service applicant at the outreach. (Right)The Embassy team poses with officers of the Filipino Association of Bermuda (FILASBER)

24 May 2018 – The Philippine Embassy in Ottawa conducted a consular outreach mission in Bermuda on 18 to 22 May 2018 to provide consular services to Filipinos in the territory as well as register overseas voters. The outreach mission was held at the Mariners’ Center in Hamilton.

The Embassy team, composed of First Secretary and Consul Eric R. Aquino, Second Secretary and Consul Jeffrey P. Salik, Finance Officer Rosalie V. Gonsalves, and Consular Assistants Aileen B. Cuya, Alvin L. Conchas III and Josephine L. Gonato, rendered a total of 559 consular services. The Embassy team also registered 128 new overseas voters.

There are an estimated 2,000 Filipinos in Bermuda, with a significant portion working as caregivers and service workers in the territory’s tourism industry (waitstaff, cleaners, housekeeping staff). A smaller number are permanent residents by virtue of marriage to Bermudians or who have been in the territory for a long time. END