140 stranded OFWs in Jordan will be home soon -DFA

MANILA, Philippines—About 140 stranded overseas Filipino workers in Jordan will soon be traveling back to Manila after Ministry of Interior dropped the residency fines slapped on the workers, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Friday.

In a statement, the DFA said it has authorized the purchase of one-way plane tickets for each of the workers.

According to the DFA, among the 140 Filipinos to be repatriated, 11 are underaged workers while eight are Filipino children born in Jordan. The children will be sent back to the Philippines with their mothers.

Since early 2007, some 260 Filipino domestic helpers sought refuge at the embassy, claiming their employers abused them. They refused to return to work and asked to be sent home.

Last month, it was reported that the residency fines of some 185 Filipino domestic helpers in Jordan was waived by the labor ministry.

“Jordan Immigration imposes a fine of 1.50 Jordanian dinars (US$2.50) per day for aliens whose residency permits have expired," the DFA said.

“The overstay fines of the OFWs range from three months to three years, with one OFW accumulating fines of up to eight years," it added.

Philippine Ambassador to Jordan Julius Torres thanked the labor ministry for waiving the fines on the Filipinos who have been staying at the embassy for months.

Jordan Minister Al Salem was optimistic that the OFW deployment ban to Jordan will be lifted soon, the DFA said.

In December 2007, the governments of Jordan and the Philippines set up a joint committee to improve overall procedures concerning the deployment of Filipino domestic workers and resolve a number of individual cases of domestic workers.

The committee was composed of representatives from Jordan’s Ministry of Labor, the embassy of the Philippines in Amman and Jordanian recruitment agencies.

Several Jordanian officials and representatives if the recruitment agencies were invited by the government to go to Manila and observe the deployment process in the Philippines in preparation for the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding.

“Dates for the visit will soon be agreed upon," the Jordanian embassy said in a statement. - Mark J. Ubalde, GMANews.TV

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