MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / June 2, 2014) – The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has suspended a recruitment agency for allegedly issuing two sets of different working visas to a Filipina maid bound for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said he ordered the preventive suspension of
Chanceteam International Services, Inc. after stopping the woman – who was carrying visas for the position of sales staff and servant – from leaving the country.
He said this was discovered after the woman presented the two different visas at the pre-departure verification desk at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
The woman admitted during an investigation that she was handed two visas by the recruitment agency. She told investigators that her agent directed her to present the visa bearing the “sales staff” at the airport and the “servant” visa to her employer in Dubai.
She said her agency instructed her to tell the POEA officers at the airport
that the “servant” visa was obtained on her behalf by her cousin in Dubai, but she mistakenly presented all two visas to inspectors.
Cacdac said the recruitment agency committed serious violations. There was no immediate statement from Chanceteam International Services.
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