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2. Philippines–United Arab Emirates relations - Wikipedia

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   The United Arab Emirates is dependent on expatriate workers, with a significant number of them being Filipinos. The UAE is the second top destination for Overseas Filipino Workers, after Saudi Arabia. There are about 500,000-600,000 Filipinos in the Emirates. Of all Filipino workers in the UAE, 60 percent are classified as professional, 25 ...

3. Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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   The Embassy of the Philippines in the UAE asked laid-off Filipinos to register, because of the possibility of job openings in nearby Qatar. [7] However, the decline could also be attributed to new visa and passport requirements that the government of the UAE instituted midway through 2008, [12] [13] affecting up to 20,000 Filipinos. [14]

4. List of deployment bans on Overseas Filipino Workers

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   A total ban was imposed in January 2007 following incidents of kidnappings in Nigeria. Partially lifted in March 2007 to allow returning Filipino migrant workers employed in Nigeria. Total ban was reimposed in 2008 and includes Filipino seafarers boarded on ships docking on Nigerian ports. [7] Partial March 13, 2007 – January 31, 2008: Total

5. Overseas Filipino Worker - Wikipedia

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   Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. [3] The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million between April and September 2020.

6. Overseas Filipinos - Wikipedia

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   In 2012, approximately 80% of the remittances came from only seven countries—United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Japan. [28] In 2018, remittance had increased to $31 billion, which was nearly 10% of the GDP of the Philippines. [24] In 2019, Overseas Filipinos sent back $32.2 billion to the Philippines ...

7. History of Filipino nurses in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Hospitals quickly began sponsoring Filipino women who had been trained in U.S.-style nursing programs abroad. [2] [7] For this reason, despite being open to all countries, the EVP induced a wave of Filipino migration. [7] By the late 1960s, Filipino applicants, the vast majority of whom were nurses, made up 80% of participants in the program. [8]