Overseas Filipino workers (OFW) are now allowed to travel to Oman.
At a virtual briefing last Monday, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) disclosed the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has resumed the processing of Oman-bound OFWs.
“The deployment ban has already been lifted so everything is back to normal. We are now deploying OFWs to Oman,” Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III said.
POEA imposed a temporary deployment suspension to Oman last June after the Middle East country stopped allowing Filipinos from entering its territory.
In its Advisory 118, POEA said it has lifted the temporary suspension after the Omani government resumed accepting Filipino travelers on September 1, 2021.
DOLE, however, announced last week that the actual deployment of OFWs to Oman will be on hold until the country’s travel restriction for inbound travelers coming from Oman expires.
The said travel restriction for Oman and nine other countries was lifted last Monday.