Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA)

August 1, 2022 Dear Ms. Weslyn Ganotice, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jul 29, 2022 09:00:40 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch for an update of your DOLE-AKAP Application. Ms. Ganotice foremost follow instructions. The E-FOI requires for a snapshot of a government issued ID for verification purpose. There in no need for the portrait you sent. MOREOVER, READ ABOUT THE DOLE-AKAP at the DOLE website or by merely searching the internet. You should be fully knowledgeable about the qualification requirements. THE DOLE-AKAP is a program of the Department of Labor and Employment and NOT with OWWA. Therefore follow-up with DOLE Provincial Office in Nueva Ecija. The OFW Verification System has no record of your online DOLE-AKAP Application. However, record shows that your overseas employment contract expired in September 2019. Hence, at the time of the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic you are no longer an OFW. If you were able to avail of the repatriation assistance, then the Philippine government has shouldered your airplane fare, quarantine facilities and transport to your province. Check with DOLE Provincial office if they can consider your DOLE-AKAP request for assistance. 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, ATTY. EDELYN D. CLAUSTRO Director IV- Administrative and Financial Management Office OWWA-FOI Decision Maker