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Locsin blames PHL labor attaché for US one-year ban on entry of some Filipino workers

(Eagle News)– Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday, Jan. 24, blamed a Philippine labor attaché for the United States’ government’s decision to ban for one year Filipinos from obtaining H-2A and H-2B visas to enter the US. “One of our labor attachés questioned such visas so I guess we got what we asked for,” Locsin said on Twitter, without giving names. In a separate Tweet, Locsin said the labor attaché in particular “denounced work/study J1 visas […]

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Palace: DFA, PHL ambassador to take steps following US ban on new Filipino workers with H-2A, H-2B visas

(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, Jan. 22, said it was leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Philippine ambassador to the United States to work on the US visa ban on new Filipino workers with H-2A and H-2B visas. “That’s their turf,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said, referring to the ban announced by the Department of Homeland Security from Jan. 19, 2019 to Jan. 18, 2020. A H-2B visa is issued to foreign […]

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