Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA)

July 4, 2023 Dear Ms. Evangeline Linsangan, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jul 03, 2023 03:31:58 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch for a follow-up of the DOLE-AKAP financial assistance of Mr. Generosa Javier Ms. Evangeline Linsangan please be properly informed that the eFOI is not an avenue for sharing personal information. Doing so is a violation of the Data Privacy Act that has a corresponding imprisonment and fines if proven guilty. Moreover, the person concerned has forwarded the same queries about the status of his application to the DOLE-AKAP, three (3) minutes after you posted your own inquiry. Be further informed that the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is no longer with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) but with the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW). Hence, any updates or queries about DOLE-AKAP must be directed to DOLE not to OWWA. If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing the OWWA- FOI Decision Makers at email: [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response and should be made within FIFTEEN (15) calendar days from the date you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within THIRTY (30) calendar days from the date we received your review request. However, if you are still not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, EMMA V. SINCLAIR Deputy Administrator OWWA-FOI Decision Maker

July 4, 2023 Dear Evangeline Linsangan, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jul 03, 2023 03:31:58 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch an update of the DOLE-AKAP application of Mr. Javier. Ms. Evangeline Linsangan please be properly informed that the eFOI is not an avenue for sharing personal information. Doing so is a violation of the Data Privacy Act that has a corresponding imprisonment and fines if proven guilty. Moreover, the person concerned has forwarded the same queries about the status of his application to the DOLE-AKAP, three (3) minutes after you posted your own inquiry. Be further informed that the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is no longer with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) but with the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW). Hence, any updates or queries about DOLE-AKAP must be directed to DOLE not to OWWA. If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing the OWWA- FOI Decision Makers at email: [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response and should be made within FIFTEEN (15) calendar days from the date you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within THIRTY (30) calendar days from the date we received your review request. However, if you are still not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, EMMA V. SINCLAIR Deputy Administrator OWWA-FOI Decision Maker