GOVPH

13 October 2017 – The Board of Foreign Service Examinations will hold the Qualifying Test for the 2018 Foreign Service Officer (FSO) Examinations on 28 January 2018.

For those who are interested, the following are guidelines for the submission of completed application forms:

• Application forms should be printed in ;
• Applicant should be a Filipino citizen and a permanent resident of the Philippines;
• Applicant should be a holder of at least a four (4) year bachelor’s degree or higher. Submission of relevant evidence, i.e. transcript of records, and either the diploma or certificate of graduation is required;
• Applicant should have undergone employment or undertaken further studies for two (2) years after graduating from college or university;
• If married to a foreigner, the applicant must secure from the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, through the Board of Foreign Service Examinations, the authority to take the FSO Examinations; and
• If applicant has dual or multiple citizenships, he/she should submit a notarized affidavit stating that upon passing the examinations, he/she intends to renounce his/her allegiance to all of his/her other countries of citizenship; and, he/she must also submit a notarized affidavit stating that he/she is a permanent resident in the Philippines.

Application forms can be downloaded from the DFA website www.dfa.gov.ph.

A non-refundable fee of Php500.00 (or €8.86 or US$9.84) must be paid by the applicant for the application.

The final determination of the applicant’s eligibility to take the Qualifying Test rests on the Board of Foreign Service Examinations (BFSE) of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in Manila.

The deadline for submission of completed application forms is on 01 December 2017. Applicants are advised that incomplete requirements will not be accepted.

For further information, please contact the Board Secretariat through telephone numbers +63 2 834 3080/+63 2 834 3083/+63 2 834 4925 or by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [end].

The Anti-Illegal Drugs Campaign in the Philippines
from 1 July 2016 – 20 June 2017

The Philippine Embassy wishes to share the latest statistics on the campaign against illegal drugs (1 July 2016 – 20 June 2017) released by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) as Chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD).

The ICAD has recently launched #RealNumbersPH to present the actual figures behind the anti-illegal drugs operations on the ground. Updates on the combined anti-illegal drugs efforts of the PDEA, the Philippine National Police (PNP), the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), and other law enforcement agencies are consolidated before released to the public.

Each law enforcement agency may have different data from that of the other due to time difference when the data is released. As such, having one agency to provide consolidated data will give the public correct information on the government’s anti-illegal drugs campaign.

The unitary and official report of the #RealNumbersPH on the intensified national anti-illegal drugs campaign will emanate only from the PDEA which is tasked to be the sole repository of aggregated data.