SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – On Tuesday, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) inaugurated its 39th consular office in Antique, initially serving 100 passport applicants daily.
The temporary location on the 3rd floor of Robinsons Place in San Jose de Buenavista will accommodate walk-in clients while ongoing preparations for a more spacious permanent office on the 2nd floor are underway.
Mark Joshua Ponce, the acting director of DFA's Consular Offices Coordinating Division, stated their goal to increase daily client capacity to 300 in the coming days.
The establishment of this consular office aims to alleviate the financial burden on Antique residents who previously had to travel to the Iloilo City consular office.
Governor Rhodora Cadiao, alongside Senator Loren Legarda, played a key role in advocating for the consular office since 2019. Cadiao emphasized the importance of this initiative by recalling a tragic incident where a new maritime graduate, among the 19 casualties in a Ceres bus accident last year, had traveled to Iloilo City for passport application.(PNA)
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