OAV thumb My Overseas Absentee Voting Registration Experience

The deadline for registration of OAV or overseas absentee voters will not be extended according to Comelec or Commission on Elections. If you are planning to register, I suggest that you register as early as today. Otherwise, you might have to deal with long queue of OFWs rushing towards the deadline.

I have already finished my OAV registration yesterday at the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait and it was really not a complicated process.

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  1. I brought my original passport as well as the photocopy.
  2. The Philippine Embassy staff verified my name on their electronic records.
  3. Afterwards, I was given a registration form for filling up.
  4. After completion of the form, I was briefly interviewed by the Admin Officer to validate some personal information.
  5. They took my digital photo afterwards and they took my fingerprint as well – electronically.
  6. The Admin Officer then signed on my registration form and the registration stub was handed over to me for safekeeping.
  7. According to the Embassy, the ID will be distributed on January 2010.

The procedure was indeed very simple. If some of you are speculating that it might be a tedious process – then, you don’t have to worry. It will be as easy as 1-2-3.

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The Overseas Absentee Voting was implemented in 2003. It was aimed to provide the opportunity for Filipinos abroad to exercise their right in electing the President, Vice-President, Senators and one Partylist Representative.

The OAV registration process started in February 2009 and will end on August 31, 2009. The Comelec recently told that there will be no extension since the period of February 2009 to August 2009 is long enough to accommodate listing of OAVs for the upcoming 2010 elections.

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Embassy of the Philippines – State of Kuwait

Address: Area 7, No. 103, Villa 503 Jabriya

Postal Address: P.O. Box 26288 Safat 13123 State of Kuwait

Telephone No.: (965) 2534-9099, 2534-5762 Fax No.: (965) 2532-9319

Office Hours: 8:00 am –2:00 pm Sunday to Thursday

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