PH EMBASSY IN NAIROBI EXTENDS CONSULAR SERVICES TO FILIPINOS IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA

The Philippine Embassy team rendered various consular and assistance to nationals (ATN) services to Filipinos in Tanzania.

NAIROBI, 30 April 2024 – The Philippine Embassy in Nairobi conducted its first consular outreach mission for 2024 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 28 April 2024.

The Embassy team, composed of Vice Consul Louie Dane C. Merced and Attaché Fervie Jay V. Brubio, provided passport, civil registry, authentication and other consular services to the Filipinos in Tanzania. The Embassy team also facilitated the registration of overseas voters for the 2025 Philippine elections.

The Embassy worked closely with the Filipino Community in Tanzania (FCT) and the Kaibigan-Filipino Association in Tanzania (FAT) in ensuring the success of the consular outreach mission.

While in Dar es Salaam, the Embassy team took the opportunity to check on the situation of Filipinos in Tanzania and encouraged them to participate in the Embassy’s continuing online mapping survey of overseas Filipinos.

There are around 400 Filipinos in Tanzania, many of them working as professionals and highly skilled workers in the manufacturing and services sectors.

Tanzania is one of the 12 countries in East and Central Africa that are under the jurisdiction of the Philippine Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Dar es Salaam, located along the Indian Ocean coast, is the former capital of Tanzania and remains the country’s main economic hub. END.

The Embassy team provided passport services to Filipinos in Tanzania.

The Embassy team and some members of the Filipino Community in Tanzania (FCT) and the Kaibigan-Filipino Association in Tanzania (FAT) pose for a group photo in front of Pinoy Resto Seafood and Grill, a Filipino-owned restaurant in Dar es Salaam.