Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA)

March 8, 2021 Dear Ms. Barbara Catindig, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Mar 06, 2021 08:43:15 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch for an update of your DOLE-AKAP Application. OWWA Verification System shows that you applied online on December 20, 2020 and was evaluated by OWWA-RWO 4A as DISAPPROVED since your name does not appear in the List of OFWs billeted in the quarantine hotels. Moreover, based on our OFW Membership Verification System your membership expired on 27 Nov. 2018 with jobsite at UAE at Progolf International LLC.. Are you sure that you receive a notification from Palawan Express when your application was DISAPPROVED at the onset by OWWA Region IV-A. If OWWA disapproves your application there is no basis for DOLE to process release of financial benefit. Your question regarding why NCR is evaluating your application, the answer of OWWA Region 4A is correct. All repatriated OFWs effective 01 December 2020 shall use the OASIS, an online assistance verification system managed by OWWA NCR, therefore the evaluators of NCR shall review and assess the documents submitted and would concur to the decision if it has merit.. 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 to Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac 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, RODRIGO F. PASCUA, JR. OWWA Deputy Administrator FOI Decision Maker