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6:14 pm on 5 December 2021, Sunday
First PH passport renewal center launched in Los Angeles
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) with the Philippine Consulate General, inaugurated the first Philippine ePassport Renewal Center in Los Angeles (LA PaRC).
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. said the LA PaRC system amplifies consular operations of 94 embassies and consulates all around the world.
“The Philippine ePassport Renewal Center (PaRC) system supplements and strengthens the consular operations of our 94 embassies and consulates around the world. It radically reduces the pressure to get more things done faster and faster until more and more mistakes are made or the public is condemned to slower and slower service”, said Locsin during the inauguration.
The Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles caters to the biggest group of abroad Filipinos in the Americas.
“The PaRC operates on more days and for longer hours than we ever did. Even on weekends. It is a mean machine with kind results for the public and therefore for DFA workers meeting their needs. Filipinos here in Los Angeles and in the surrounding states need not worry about missing work obligations or other inconveniences caused by an 8-to-5-time window. I know you work so hard to make a life out here, and we will make sure that the PaRC works harder for you to help you achieve that end,” Locsin said.
VFS Global, the largest outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments and diplomatic missions worldwide.
It currently operates ePassport Renewal Centers on behalf of the DFA in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the UAE; Riyadh, Jeddah and Al Khobar in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast in the United Kingdom; Dublin in Ireland; Marseilles in France; Singapore; Kuwait; and in Los Angeles in the U.S.A.