Department of Foreign Affairs(DFA)

Good day!

We respectfully request the following data from your office:
1) Latest number of OFWs per country
2) Number of Filipinos living abroad per country

Thank you and we hope you could accommodate our request.

Feb 16, 2020

Dear Zsastee Ia Villanueva,

Thank you for your request dated Feb 11, 2020 02:21:52 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Number of OFWs per country.

We received your request on Feb 11, 2020 02:21:52 PM and will respond on or before Mar 03, 2020 02:21:52 PM, in accordance with the Executive Order's implementing rules and regulations.

Should you have any questions regarding your request, kindly contact me using the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://foipmo10222019131635-dot-efoi-ph.appspot.com/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEERGQS05NDgwODc0Mzg2NDgM, for request with ticket number #DFA-948087438648.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

FOI Receiving Officer
FOI Officer

The Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs denies the FOI request noting that the files are considered confidential. 

OUMWA notes that confidential information are exception to Executive Order No. 2 (S.2016) as provided for by the Inventory of Exceptions dated 24 November 2016, which states:

Information, documents or records known by reason of official capacity and are deemed as confidential, including this submitted or disclosed by entities to government agencies, tribunals, boards, or officers, in relation to the performance of their functions, or to inquiries or investigation conducted by them in the exercise of their administrative, regulatory or quasi-judicial powers.