08 March 2005 – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced  that the DFA Regional Consular Office (RCO) in Tuguegarao City conducted a two-day mobile passport service on 26 to 27 February 2005 in San Mateo, Isabela in an effort to bring government services to the barangay level.

“The RCO Tuguegarao aims to reach out  even to the remotest barangay to be able give the passport service the people deserve,” Officer-in-Charge Antonio M. Allam, Jr. said.

San Mateo Mayor Roberto Agcaoili, Sr. invited the DFA-RCO team in line with the launching of the Municipal Civil Registrar’s Batch Request Entry System (BRES) program where local residents can obtain civil registry documents from the Civil Registrar’s Office.  Mayor Agcaoili expressed appreciation and said that “the mobile passport program is a cost-saving measure for time, money and energy.”

The mobile passport team, which was composed of eight RCO personnel, issued a total of three hundred thirty four (334) passports to applicants from San Mateo, Mallig, Aurora, Ramon, Cabanatuan, San Manuel, Santiago, Cauayan and even some applicants from Quirino and Nueva Vizcaya.   This is the first time the DFA RCO in Tugegarao held a passport service in San Mateo. END
 

/jay