24 Countries Around the World that are Off-Limits to OFWs this 2018

The new year is here and many of us are pursuing the dream to work abroad or to become Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW). 

If you are looking for jobs abroad, you should be wary of applying in this following countries where deployment ban is still in effect due to unstable security and economic conditions for OFWs.

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According to POEA the advisory is in effect to all land-based deployment and will remain valid unless updated by new issuances.

Here are the following countries where total deployment ban is in effect;

• Afghanistan
• Somalia
• Sudan except for Khartoum and Kenana Sugar Plantation in the White Nile
• Rwanda
• Burundi
• Syria
• Yemen
• Iraq
• The Chechnya Republic

A total deployment ban covers all skills categories and applies to both new hires and rehires.

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Four countries with existing partial deployment ban

• South Sudan
• Iraqi Kurdistan Region
• Libya
• Ukraine

While new hires are banned from going to countries with partial deployment ban, rehires or returning OFWs are still allowed to work there provided they comply with certain conditions from the government.

(Please See the POEA Advisory No. 21 Dated Dec. 6, 2017)

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On the other hand, the POEA has issued another conditional deployment restriction to Palau but only covers Filipino household services workers (HSW). Accordingly, HSW was not given suitable working condition by their employer in the said country.

Meanwhile, the following are 11 countries that are not certified by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) as compliant to Republic Act 10022 or the Amended Migrant Workers Act.

• Afghanistan
• Chad
• Cuba
• North Korea
• Haiti
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• Palestine
• Somalia
• Zimbabwe.

Under RA 10022 POEA cannot deploy OFWs in countries without any DFA certification.

This article is filed under: OFW News, Countries Off-Limits to OFW, OFW Ban

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OWWA-DAVAO WANTS TO BAN PARENTS WITH YOUNG CHILDREN FROM WORKING ABROAD

Due to poverty and many other reasons, some mothers choose to work abroad, leaving their children home even if they are too young and vulnerable to neglect and abuse of other people.

In relation with this Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) - Davao is proposing a policy that will prohibit parents from working abroad if their children are too young.

This proposal came after the death of a two-year-old child, Earl John Cagalitan, after suffering from battering and abuse by his own relatives.

Earl John is the youngest son of Erlinda Cagalitan, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Bahrain for 10 years and a single mother.

His son was left in the care of her nephew and his wife while she worked abroad.

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OWWA-Davao Regional Director Eduardo Bellido said, that there's a lot of cases reported in their agency wherein OFWs, especially mothers are living their children as young as one month old to work abroad.

Because of this emotional upbringing and care for the children are being sacrificed.

Bellido is urging the Local Government Unit in the Region to look for the possibility of passing and ordinance regarding this matter.

He cited an example in Compostela Valley Province where there is a local ordinance prohibiting parents from leaving their children for work abroad if they are too young to be left behind.

Bellido said in Compostela Valley (Comval), there is an existing local ordinance prohibiting parents from leaving their children for abroad if their son or daughter is still too young to be left behind.

“This ordinance in Comval can be replicated if seen viable,” Bellido said.

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The OWWA has already provided P50,000 as financial assistance to the family of the victim that came from Calinan, Davao City.

According to report the boy was beaten to death after he urinated in his pants. The boy was immediately rushed to the hospital on November 13, 2016 but was declared dead on arrival. The child sustained injuries in different parts of his body.

 Erlinda Cagalitan, OFW mother of the 2-year old victim

OWWA also provide livelihood and training assistance to the mother of the victim Erlina and psycho-social counseling to the family. The assistance is in line with the directives of DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III to provide necessary protection to the OFWs and their families.

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