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Sef Gutierrez
Three recruitment agencies now face charges from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), after some overseas Filipino workers they deployed were caught with two different visas each.
In a post on his social media account, Cacdac said the POEA has initiated separate complaints of misrepresentation against:
- Hiro Global Manpower Inc.
- CAZ International Inc.
- Al-Walih International Manpower Services Company
He said "greedy" recruiters favor the double-visa scheme to "bypass protective mechanisms" by the government, thus making OFWs open to abuse and exploitation.
"Most of the household service workers who took shelter at the Migrant Workers and Filipino Resource Center in Dubai were deployed using two visas," Cacdac noted.
Cacdac said the Bureau of Immigration barred the respective recruits of these companies from leaving the country for possession of two different visas.
He cited reports from the BI indicating each of the three recruits of Al-Walih International were found to have "two employment visas for United Arab Emirates bearing two different occupations."
"The workers allegedly admitted that they knew their actual work was household service work, and not what was stated in the documents processed by the POEA," Cacdac said.
Also, another OFW was found having visas for UAE and Jordan, Cacdac said.
Meanwhile, six female workers deployed by CAZ International were stopped at the airport by the Bureau of Immigration for having separate UAE visas for salespersons and domestic workers.
The POEA said the Bureau of Immigration intercepted a “manicurist” bound for Dubai, an OFW recruited by Hiro Global Manpower. The manicurist was found having a visa of a household service worker.
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