POEA List of 41 Countries with Deployment Ban

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) released the list of 41 countries where there is a deployment ban of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

However, DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the ban will affect "a little over 200" OFWs, who she said can avail of the government’s integration program if they wish to return home.

“Kung sila uuwi rito, tutulungan natin ng integration program," Baldoz said in an interview on dzBB radio.

She also said the 41 countries in the list are not considered major receiving countries.

Countries include 
1. Afghanistan, 
2. Antigua and Barbuda, 
3. Barbados, 4. Cambodia, 
5. Cayman Islands, 
6. Chad, 
7. Croatia, 
8. Cuba, 
9. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea/North Korea, 
10. Dominica, 
11. East Timor/Timor Leste, 
12. Eritrea, 
13. Haiti, 
14. India, 
15. Iraq, 
16. Kyrgyzstan/Kyrgyz Republic, 
17. Lebanon, 
18. Lesotho, 
19. Libya, 
20. Mali, 
21. Mauritania, 
22. Montenegro, 
23.Mozambique, 
24. Nauru, 
25. Nepal, 
26. Niger, 
27. Pakistan, 
28. Palestine, 
29. Serbia, 
30. St. Kitts and Nevis, 
31. St. Lucia, 3
2.5t. Vincent and the Grenadines, 
33. Sudan, 
34. Swaziland, 
35. Tajikistan, 
36. Tonga, 
37. Turks and Caicos, 
38. Tuvalu, 
39. US Virgin Islands, 
40. Vanuatu, 
41. Zimbabwe.

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